Officials Break Ground On Homeland Security Complex
The Department of Homeland Security is one step closer to having a building all its own.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security is one step closer to having a building all its own.
The ground breaking for the $3.4 billion, 176-acre complex happened earlier this month.
It’s the biggest federal building project in the D.C. area in the 70 years since the Pentagon.
Currently, 15,000 federal employees are split among 35 offices in the area.
The ground breaking event held historical significance because it occured on Sept. 11, eight years after the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center towers.
The complex itself will be located in a long-unused corner of Washington, D.C.
