The
Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development announced yesterday that is has awarded
Whiting-Turner a $133 million contract to construct the District's new
Consolidated Forensics Laboratory (CFL) at the former site of the
Metropolitan Police Department's at
415 4th Street, SW.
Designed by
HOK Architects, the six-story, 287,000 square foot crime lab will house the forensic arms of not only the police department, but the Department of Health and the
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as well. According to ODMPED, the new CFL will "coordinate crime, public safety and health
investigations to help law enforcement solve crimes quickly without having to rely on other laboratories with competing priorities."
Coming in at a total cost of $220 million (including “specialized equipment”), ODMPED states that the “firm-fixed price contract includes abatement and demolition of the old building as well as a 35 percent set-aside for Certified Business Enterprises.” A date for the demolition has yet to be scheduled, but work continues abreast just around the corner from the CFL site. Early last month, the District officials selected
Potomac Investment Properties,
City Partners and
Adams Investment Group to construct to
two, new mixed-use buildings – including a new fire station – just a few hundred yards away on two parcels adjoining
450 6th Street, SW.
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