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D.C. Police Cancel Headquarters Move

posted 11:19 pm Wed August 08, 2007 - Washington

tags: metropolitan • police • department • relocate

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hey're paying more than half a million dollars in rent each month, but D.C. police won't be moving their headquarters as planned to a vacant southeast warehouse.
The one they have a 20-year lease for.

The police headquarters is currently at Judiciary Square.

The city signed the lease in December for the site at 225 Virginia Avenue Southeast. Officials had a six-month grace period to change their minds before paying rent on the 400,000 square foot building. They made the first $542,000 payment in July.

But they only decided this week to scrap the plans for the move.

Lars Etzkorn is the director of the D.C. Office of Property Management. He says that a cost analysis he just completed showed that it would be too expensive to make the move.

But council member Phil Mendelson says it doesn't make sense, and told Mayor Adrian Fenty he is "deeply troubled" by the decision.

Latest Comment on D.C. Police Cancel Headquarters Move

whitebread

11:53 pm on 08/08/07

maybe they should turn it into a soccer stadium, since the other sight fell through for the stadium.

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