Impact of Fort Belvoir's BRAC spurs development
Amanda Gross
Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 3:38:47 PM
Historic Route 1 in Fairfax County, Virginia, is seeing plenty of new faces thanks to
Fort Belvoir's assignment in the military's base realignment and closure project (BRAC), WTOP News reports.
The BRAC move brought thousands of military personnel to Fort Belvoir, and also included a new hospital on the base. As a result, the surrounding community is seeing a boom in economic and physical development. Hotels in the area are experiencing a spike in occupancy thanks to the hospital, and officials have seen more interest in surrounding retail space for offices related to the the hospital and other defense contractors.
"We're just now starting to see a lot of interest in taking on that land and starting to see some construction," Fairfax County Economic Director Gerry Gordon told the news source.
While traffic has been increasing on the Route 1 corridor, Gordon says this has only created more of an interest to upgrade the roads.
"You have an opportunity to reduce commute times," he says. "You have an opportunity to get people from the base to the office space more easily."
According to the Fairfax County official website, the 2005 BRAC relocations finished September 15.
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