Groundbreaking was held today with Washington D.C. dignitaries.
NGA breaks ground on new facility in north St. Louis
11/21/2019
11/26/2019
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will host a groundbreaking ceremony for its new campus in north St. Louis Tuesday, Nov. 26, beginning a new chapter for the agency.
The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. CT and is open to media.
“The new campus will be a secure, flexible, cutting-edge intelligence facility that will put NGA in the heart of St. Louis’ growing geospatial ecosystem and help NGA take advantage of its biggest strengths, its people and partners,” said NGA Director Vice Admiral Robert Sharp.
The new NGA campus will be located at the corner of Jefferson and Cass avenues. The north St. Louis location puts NGA in the heart of a community of outstanding academic institutions and cutting-edge industry. It is scheduled to be open and fully operational by 2025.
“NGA’s new campus will be built with spaces that will facilitate information-sharing and collaboration among NGA’s and St. Louis’s talented innovators,” Sharp said. “Working together, we can better achieve NGA’s mission of providing world-class geospatial intelligence to U.S. service members and leaders to keep our nation secure.”
The new facility will include approximately 712,000 square feet of office space, parking garages, a visitor’s center, an inspection facility and control access points. Plans are for the facility to include wireless technologies – which, while standard in private industry, has been a challenge for the intelligence community to adopt for a secure, classified work environment -- and for the facility to be built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, Silver standards for environmental sustainability.
The approximately 300 invited guests to the groundbreaking include Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, Sen. Roy Blunt, Sen. Josh Hawley, Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Lacy Clay, Rep. Ann Wagner, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite and many local north St. Louis residents – all NGA partners who played crucial roles in making NGA’s vision for a new intelligence facility in the St. Louis area a reality.