Evening star., 1935-01-29
FL A. OCCUPIES
|TSNEW QUARTERS
1,100 Employees Installed in
Modernized Offices on
Vermont Avenue.

The Federal Housing AdminiStra-
tion now is installed in its new build
ing, at Vermont avenue and K street
the old Department of Justice head
quarters, which has been modernized
at a cost of $250,00O.
For the first time the LOO employees
are all together. The organization
moved out of the new Post Office De-
partment Building into its new head
quarters over the week end and yes
terday was given over to getting settled.
The work of renovation was rushed
through in 80 days by the construction
firm OF Davis, Wick, RoSengarten Co.,
Inc, of Washington. Irwin S. Porter,
local architect, supervised the work,
which included painting the building
throughout. installing new high-speed
elevators and furnishing it with
new heating and conditioning Sys-
tenn, as well as cleaning the outside
of the structure. The entire cost of
the work was borne by the private
owners, the Washington Properties
Co., which succeeded the Wardman
interests, officials asserted.
Space vacated by the Federal HouS-
ing Administration in the new Post
Office Building will be taken over by
the new Federal Communications
Commission, it was explained.
Soon Ready for Occupancy.
A. E. Demaray, associate director of
the National Park Service, who has
charge of allocating space in the
various Government buildings, said
the new story on the Interior De-
partment Building will be ready for
occupancy within month. The East
wing is Que for completion February
%, the center wing on March l, the
west wing on March Is, and the
head house on March %. The In
terror Department is now working out
the various units that will go into this
new space.
The National Recovery Administra-
ton is making arrangements to recon-
dition the old Labor Department
Building on G street near Seven
teenth. Plans are in the making to
start rehabilitation of this building
shortly so as to have it ready for
occupancy in 80 days, using 24-hour
shifts. This structure also is owned
by private interests.
Secretary of Labor Perkins is still
waiting to be moved out of the old
building into her pretentious quarters
in the new Labor Department, at
Fourteenth street and Constitution
avenue The cabinet officer has been
held up in the move because furni-
ture for her new offices has not yet
arrived, and it is said that due to the
snoWstorn, it has been further de-
layed. Labor Department authorities
are hopeful Secretary Perkins will
be installed in her new quarters this
week.
N. r. A. to Move In.
When Secretary Perkins moves out
of the old Labor Building, the N. r.
A. authorities plan to move in as soon
as the reconditioning is completed.
The N r. A. IS occupying space va
Gated by Dulin & Martin, at Connecti-
cut avenue and L street. During the
Encouragement program the N. r. A.
will be scattered in some IL buildings,
but Government space control au-
thorities do not know what better con-
solidation plan can be worked out at
this time.
The Navy Department, due to the
pressure of space for its shipbuilding
program, is in cramped quarters and
would like to see the Shipping Board
moved out of its building to the De-
partment of Commerce Negotiations
are under way whereby the N. R. A.
would give up $4,000 of its 100000
square feet in the Commerce Building,
retaining $4,000 square feet for its
headquarters staff. If this plan is
adopted, the vacated space would be
given over to the Shipping Board. N.
r. A. authorities are negotiating with
the Department of Commerce with a
view to renting space elsewhere for
the Shipping Board as an alternative
solution of the problem.