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>Fairfax County Wants New FBI Headquarters in Springfield
>and toward another: the partially vacant,70-acreGSA warehouse complex in Springfield. Today, we take a closer look at that site, which is located west of I-95 and Loisdale Road, a half mile from the Franconia/Springfield Metrorail station (see aerial above).
>the property contains about 1.3 million square feet of building space, including the approximately 1 million-square-foot Building A—whichstretches one-third of a mile end to endand has the largest wooden roof truss system east of the Mississippi River—and the232,000-square-foot Building B,both of which were constructed in 1953, as well as abouta dozen modular buildings. County officials and local business believe the site—nowsecured by concrete barriers and a barbed-wire fence—is hugely underused.
>listed eight federal agencies occupying the site, including the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA).
>That agency appears to be the sticking point for any redevelopment plan
Washington Business Journal reporter Michael Neibauer revealed back in January that the CIA may be operating a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) at 6801 Springfield Center Drive. According to Fairfax County tax records, that building, which sits within the GSA fence and appears to be part of the GSA complex, is privately owned by an arm of Arlington-based Resi Management Company, whose owner declined to name the tenants.Digging deeper into the CIA’s presence at the complex, Neibauer quoted an excerpt from the book Fallout by Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz (Free Press, 2011) that describes a warehouse-like building in Springfield where “the CIA trains a cadre of technical officers to bug offices, break into houses, and penetrate computer systems.”If the CIA really is operating a clandestine training facility out of the building, Neibauer concludes, that will be “the major hurdle in Fairfax County’s effort to lure the FBI to the … GSA campus.”