This Greenbelt area of Maryland being considered....is marginally safe after dark. For the life of me....I can’t understand how it got on the list. It is near a Metro station, but you’d have to have a weapon in your car if you drove to work each day.
As for the Landover, Maryland area and Franconia, Virginia sites....they both are interesting areas. Franconia is at the end of the beltway on the side south of Arlington. Almost no Metro station nearby....but they could run a Metro bus up to the site.
Landover is on the list? Is Landover any safer than Greenbelt? Remember what happened to Landover Mall???
Landover, Greenbelt, and Franconia??? The folks on the site selection committee sure have a high tolerance for traffic gridlock and a systematic contempt for their employees’ quality of life.
I wonder if there is enough space left at the old St. E’s site. Homeland Security is in the process of moving there, so organizationally it would be a good fit for collocation. The St. E’s site is convenient, close in, and at least for a few more years will offer nearby affordable housing in a part of town where one could do extensive remodelling or new construction without being blocked by historic preservation rules. Gentrification is spreading even in Anacostia and the move by DHS will accelerate it in the vicinity of the campus. The first generation of DHS employees who move into the area will be real estate millionaires in 20 years.
Or, the FBI can settle for life in gridlock and commutes that are brutal on the good days and impossible on the rest.