Evening star., 1927-04-17
$5O,o)O,OlO CAPITAL
PROJECTS PLANNED
Congress Expected to Vote
Sum for improvements
and New Plans.
BY WILL P. KENNEDY.

approximately 30U,OUU,UuU Is SA~
pected to be appropriated by the in.
coming Congress to carry along ma
jor permanent Improvement projects
for the National Capital and to start
work on other gigantic projects that
have been long in the minds Of the
Capital builders.
The failure Of the second deficiency
appropriation bin and of the public
buildings bill and several other meas
ures behind the Senate filibuster has
seriously delayed progress on practi.
caIly all these projects.
Under the $50000,0 600 five-year Fed.
eral building program s5,575,0oO has
already been appropriated. Another
allotment Of s2,275, 900 for a second
years work was blocked. The cotton
warehouse building at LinwoTth place
and street southwest. which the
Department of Agriculture had been
occupying under lease with option of
purchase, has been bought with a
$500, 600 ALLEGATION. This is now
known as the Economics Building
Work is also well along on the erec-
tion of two additional stories on the
Liberty Loan annex to the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, The outer
walls are now being put on.
Plans Being Changed.
Two firms of architects who won
in competition some years ago on
plans for the new buildings for the
Department of Agriculture and Com
merce are now adapting their plans to
meet changed conditions and to serve
the present needs of these depart
ments while fitting in with the plan
for grouping the new buildings. Ran
kin & kellogg of Philadelphia are
redrawing plans for the erection of
the new central or pavilion building
for the Department of Agriculture to
connect the two marble wings which
were constructed more than a decade
ago.
York & Sawyer of New York are
drawing the plans for the new Depart
ment of Commerce Building between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, B
and e streets northwest. The Com
of Fine Arts has been advis-
ing regarding the Old World style of
running through this building,
and with a large central court which
would really be park. The recon-.
to Congress was for $16,.
600 900 building, which the appropria-
tions committee cut to S13, 600 600.
These two buildings for Agriculture
and Commerce are expected to be the
first TO be built, as the Government
already owns the land.
The block directly south of the Post
Office Department Building, which the
bought some years ago
as site for mailbag repair shop,
has been cleared. and this is one
fourth of the site for the new Internal
Revenue Building. The south half Of
the site, now occupied by the Farmers
is also Government owned.
So the contract will be let before long
for excavating and laying the founda-
ton for one.half of the Internal Rev
epue Building. This will be the west
half between Eleventh and Twelfth,
r and c streets. Meanwhile the court
has just appointed appraisers in the
proceedings to acquire
the other square needed to complete
the site for the Internal Revenue
Building, the northeast. corner between
Tenth and Eleventh, Little B and c
Condemnation Instituted.
Condemnation proceedings have also
been instituted for acquiring the prop.
erty between Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets, G street and Pennsylvania
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