Evening star., 1933-01-16
employees GARAGE
Being COMPLETED
Large Underground Space
Under Construction at De-
partment of Agriculture.

The largest garage and parking space
b be furnished by the Government for
ias srnployes u now under construction
beneath the new extensible building of
the Agriculture Department, where
there viii be accommodations in an
underground garage and in three large
courts for about 1000 cars.
How this amount of space will be
allotted among the $500 employees Of
the department Is problem which has
not yet been solved, according to DR..
w. w. Stockberger, the departments
director of personnel and business ad-
minastration. A substantial proportion
OF the employees, however, have no auto
mobiles, DR.. Stockberger said.
With the concentration Of the de-
partment's personnel in the single area
from the several buildings In which 1t
still is decentralized, some kind of park
Ing space was necessary, DR.. Stock
berger emphasized, especially in view
Of the fact that the Bureau OF Engrav-
Ing and Printing nearby, with its
thousands OF workers going to work at
o'clock makes the parking problem
acute.
Part Of the new underground garage
d virtually complete beneath the east
rnmost wing OF the extensible build
Ing reaching along Twelfth street south
west from B to G street. The garage
and parking space eventually will oc-
cupy space beneath the three easterly
wings of the extensible building and
N the three easterly courts. The build
ing, reaching from Twelfth to Four
teenth street, is to have seven wings
eventually, two of which, in the center,
already are completed and occupied.
Three Entrances.
There will be three entrances to the
underground garage, all on G street.
The entrances are wide, and in the
form Of ramps of gradual slope.
The first part Of the underground
garage, beneath the wing along Twelfth
street Is to be completed and ready for
occupancy some time this year. When
the building Is ready, DR.. Stockberger
explained, part of the Bureau OF Chem
aStry and the Food and Drug Admins
tration. which now occupy old buildings
still standing between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets, win move over into
the completed wing. Then the old
buildings will be torn down, the site
excavated and construction continued
on. the rest Of the extensible building.
ceeding on the Fourteenth street end of
the extensible building
When the departmental forces are
concentrated In the new building the
only principal activities of the depart
ment left outside here will be the
Weather Bureau and the Arlington
Farm activities This means that about
$500 people will be located In the con-
nected buildings on both sides of B
street southwest. Bridges and corridors
eventually will connect the two build
tngs over B street.
Widely Scattered.
Activities Of the department already
have been largely concentrated from
the day when they were scattered
through about SO different buildings,
DR.. Stockberger explained, but they are
still located in about II different build
ings, including about 1900 people.
Most Of these IL will be vacated as soon
as the new wings of the extension
building are ready. The places to be
vacated include, among the principal
ones, the Lemon Building, adjacent to
Emergency Hospital, where is located
the Plant Quarantine; the Willard
Building, on Fourteenth street, oppo-
site the Willard Hotel, housing the
Bureau OF Public Roads; the Atlantic
Building, ON r street, between Ninth
and Tenth streets, housing the Forest
Service; the old Southern Railway
Building, at Thirteenth and e streets;
temporary buildings G and F on the
Mall, and the Mckinley Building at
the American University campus. Some
of the heavy machines in this latter
building, used by the Fixed Nitrogen
Research Laboratory, may be moved to
Arlington Farm, but most Of the per-
sonnel and laboratories, will go to the
extensible building.