Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
BUzzARDS POINT
SURVEY GETS 0. K.
OF PLANNING BODY
Commission Authorizes Re-
study of Area as Potential
Industrial Site.
LAND PURCHASES GIVEN
LENGTHY CONSIDERATION
Follow Arts Commission in APP
proving Standard Oil Build
ing Plans.

Another survey of the Buzzards
Point region, between the Washington
Navy Yard and the Army War Col
Iege, as q potential industrial develop
ment, in relation to a contemplated
bridge across the Anacostia River at
that point, was authorized late yester-
day by the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, as it concluded
its two-day September meeting.
Capt E. N. Chisoln, jr.. the COM
missions engineer. who has been deeply
interested in the development of that
section of the city as an industrial
area. explained that the commission
directed its staff to restudy the whole
problem The planners desire to gaugx
the relation of traffic to industry in
that locality and wish to have more
information on the whole subject be-
fore laying down any definite plan as
. desirable civic policy
The restudy will be undertaken i'm
mediately and will be participated in by
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, vice chair
man and executive officer of the COM
mission: Charles W. Eliot. ID. the COM
missions director of planning; Capt.
Chisolm, W. T. Partridge, consultant
architect to the commission, and other
experts in its employ.
Discusses Land Purchases.
The commission devoted a large share
of the afternoon session to the all-im-
portant question of land purchases for
park and playground purposes. In keep
ing with its customary policy, the loca-
ton of prospective areas to be pur-
chased was kept secret by the Commits
sion. which again discussed co-opera-
ton with Maryland and Virginia au-
thorities in the cooperative purchasing
Of park land particularly for the George
Washington Memorial Parkway, on both
sides of the Potomac River southwark
from Great Falls to Mount Vernon, Va,
and Fort Washington, Md.
The commission followed in the foot
steps of the Fine Arts Commission in
approving the plans and location for
thea new Standard Oil Co. building, to
be erected on B street, between Second
and Third streets, near the public build
ings development in the Triangle. This
building. which will house the cor
poration's offices for this region and
likewise contain f1lling-station quarters,
is to be built in monumental style, in
harmony with the adjacent structures
Of the Federal Government.
Grant to Convey Thanks.
The commission directed Lieut. Col
u. S. Grant. Bird, its executive officer, 70
convey its thanks to the Standard OIL
officials in cooperating with the Gov
eminent in its desire to beautify the
CITY. Col Grant was complmented Ter
his part in arranging conferences with
Standard Oil officials to bring about
this result
without committing itself on its own
nreferences. the commission listened to
Louis A. Simon, head of the architec-
tural division of the Office of the super
vising architect, Treasury Department,
and Rear Admiral A. L. Parsons, chief
OF the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Navy Department, on the proposed To-
cation of the new Army and Navy group
of buildings to house these two depart
nents. Naval officials prefer TO have
their building constructed near the In
terror Department at Eighteenth and
r streets.
The War Department will have to
have a permanent home when the
State Department takes over the pres
crit State, War and Navy Building, at
Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, which is to be remodeled
shortly at cost of some $4,000 600.
The Navy Department will have to shift
from its present wartime home on the
Mall when that semi-permanent struc-
ture is torn down to make way for the
program of development incident to
construction of the approaches to the
Washington terminus of the Arlington
Memorial Bridge and general improve
nent of that area for park purposes.
The commission proposes to give the
matter further study before making
definite recommendations on Just where
the new War and Navy Departments
should 90.