From the Baltimore Sun:
The winner of a national competition to build an office campus for the Social Security Administration unveiled a preliminary design for the project Thursday at a meeting of Baltimore's Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel.
The $200 million office campus, which will house 1,600 SSA employees in Northwest Baltimore, will be anchored by two office buildings — one five stories, the other seven stories — connected by a large glass atrium.
One of the largest and most costly projects planned for Baltimore, the campus will also include a six-story garage, cafeteria, fitness center, day care center and parking spaces for 80 bicycles. Each office building will have a "green" roof, and most employee workstations will be less than 50 feet from a window.
Planned for 11.3 acres near the Reisterstown Road Plaza Metro Station, the 538,000-square-foot project will replace the 30-year-old Metro West complex on Greene Street near downtown Baltimore.
4 comments:
Write very well, there are some others that resonate.
I am glad that there will be green aspects to the new building. I hope they include as much as they can--even if the short run cost is higher. In the long run it will be better for the environment and the budget.
Come on! $200 MILLION in the midst of this recession? How can this even be under consideration? I hope the next Congress axes this pronto!!!
Even as a liberal Dem, I completely agree with A#3. This is insane in the current budgetary climate. SSA is a bloated, inefficient behemoth with lots of room to redirect scarce dollars to direct service. While this expenditure would probably be defensible in a better economy, there's no way this should be approved now. The fact that it's even being brought up shows how blind the agency is to the current reality.
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