One of President Obama’s final pitches for passage of the stimulus package was the uncompleted Fairfax County Parkway in northern Virginia. Although the Virginia Dept. of Transportation (VDOT) in 2004 allocated $89 million to complete a 2-mile segment adjacent to Fort Belvoir and Interstate 95, the project stalled due to its route across a portion of the Army’s Engineer Proving Ground (EPG), an 820-acre tract heavily contaminated from years of ordnance testing and training activities.
A year later, EPG was chosen as the new headquarters of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, bringing with it more than a third of the estimated 24,000 new workers being relocated to Fort Belvoir under the Base Relocation and Closure (BRAC) program.