D.C. and Army make a deal on Walter Reed; man shot in D.C. is identified
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Version 0 of 1. The District and the Army have agreed on a price to be paid by the city for more than half of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus in Northwest Washington, it was confirmed Tuesday night. The city is to pay the Army $22.5 million for a little more than 66 acres of the 110-acre site on Georgia Avenue, officials said. In addition, the District has reached an agreement with the site’s master developers under which the city will lease the property to them for a mixed-use development. The terms of the purchase were reported ahead of a groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for Wednesday at a D.C. fire station on the campus. The city noted that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) had introduced the Walter Reed Development Omnibus Act of 2015 this month to authorize the acquisition of property and allow redevelopment to begin. The project is to provide 3.1 million square feet of residential, office and retail space and 2,100 units of housing, with about one-fifth categorized as affordable. — Martin Weil A 24-year-old California man who was shot and killed in Southeast Washington has been identified, D.C. police said. Police said Onyekachi Emmanuel Osuchukwu III was found Sunday in the 2900 block of Second Street SE. He was pronounced dead at the scene. — Victoria St. Martin An 8-year-old boy died after a car crash in Prince George’s County, police said. Chionesu Amona-ra was in a car that was involved in a collision in Chillum on Nov. 5. He died of his injuries Monday, county police said. The car the child was in was turning from Prince George’s Avenue onto New Hampshire Avenue, the street where he lived. It crashed into another car while turning right. — Julie Zauzmer Police charged a 30-year-old Fredericksburg man with three counts of peeping after a woman spotted a bag he allegedly used to record her — and, on separate occasions, two other women — in a women’s restroom. Richard Rodriguez was arrested Monday at Potomac Mills. The woman pointed him out to security after finding him in a neighboring restroom stall. Police said there was a video-recording device in the bag. — Victoria St. Martin |