Proposals for a Fourth House Office Building: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, May 12, 1975, July 17, 1975 |
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acquisition additional space agency Annex appraisals appropriate Architect basically believe Bicentennial BUD SHUSTER Buildings and Grounds built Cannon Building Capitol Hill Chairman Commission on Information Congress Congressional Hotel congressional offices Congressmen's offices construction cost Department designed District of Columbia Estimated FBI Building feet of space floor following was received footage fourth House Office freeway FREMOUW Full committee function funds going GOLDWATER gross square feet headquarters HEW North House of Representatives House Office Building Information and Facilities kind lease legislative MARILYN LLOYD MEISEN Members Metro million square feet MINETA need for space number of square OBERSTAR Office Building Commission office landscaping planning problem programs prospectus PUBLIC BUILDINGS PUBLIC BUILDINGS SERVICE purposes question requirements Senate South Portal Building space needs square foot squares 693 staff statement subway Teno Roncalio THAD COCHRAN tion TOM HAGEDORN tunnel U.S. CAPITOL underground garages WALSH Washington Welfare WHITE
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Page 39 - Service, in answer to a letter that I wrote to them on this specific question, said: You indicated your understanding that there are no specific provisions in...
Page 15 - ... building, to change the spaces assigned to individuals without having the restriction of a series of rooms down either side of a corridor, which is the way in which office buildings have historically been designed and especially speculative office buildings. NUMBER OF BUILDINGS ON SQUARES TO BE ACQUIRED Mr. CASEY. How many businesses and residences will be affected by the taking of these properties ? Do you have any idea ? Mr. WHITE. I can furnish that information for the record. I dont have...
Page 22 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I apologize for not having been here for the testimony, so I will just limit my questions to general ones.
Page 14 - No formal appraisals have been made by us, no. Mr. CASEY. This is what somebody called a horseback appraisal ? Mr. WHITE. More or less. Mr. HENLOCK. We did have formal appraisals made some years before Mr. White became Architect, and considered them also, in updating our cost estimates. Mr. WHITE. I am reminded by Mr. Henlock that there were some appraisals made prior to my being here and, as he indicated, we have updated those on the basis of what we know has occurred in the interim in the real...
Page 2 - COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2 pm, in room 2167, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 15 - ... taking of these properties ? Do you have any idea ? Mr. WHITE. I can furnish that information for the record. I dont have it offhand. Mr. CASEY. If you would, please. [The information follows :] The following businesses and residences will be affected by the proposed taking of squares 693 and 694 : Three businesses ; namely, one gas station-car repair business, one restaurant (the Rotunda), and one large parking lot. 101 residences: One small 2-apartment building. One small office building (converted...
Page 15 - ... information furnished by them, coordinated with our own experience, for purposes of estimating the amount of funds that will be needed. Naturally, such appraisals will have no legal force or effect nor would we want them to ; but, for the purposes of estimating, we think our figures are reasonable and in conformity with past experience. So we think the guesswork is minimized, at least insofar as it can be at this stage. TIME REQUIRED TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY Mr.
Page 38 - ... destroy industry, and it does not destroy companies. It destroys businesses within them and rather large and substantial ones. This is part of the game. This has happened on 4 or 5 occasions. This is part of the game. Mr. WILLIAMS. May I interrupt, before we respond to the call of House. At this point I would like to place in the record a copy of a letter received from the American Cancer Society under date of July 22. I shall not read the entire letter, but I would like to read the recommendations...
Page 17 - Recognizing that the space needs are different in quantity, but in terms of comparison of what existed before and what is needed now and what will be needed in the future, we established the criterion at 2V£ times or a little over 2% times.