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Friday, May 06, 2011

Feds Look to Unload Excess Property in Maryland

Hundreds of industrial buildings in Maryland owned by the federal government — from warehouses at the Antietam National Battlefield to a machine shop in Curtis Bay — would be sold or demolished under a White House initiative to dispose of excess government property.

In an effort to save billions of dollars annually in upkeep and energy costs on the often-vacant buildings, the Obama administration proposed last year ditching 14,000 properties the government no longer needs. A list of those properties released on Wednesday includes 320 in Maryland.

They include buildings at the Curtis Bay Depot, such as a 3,955-square-foot machine shop, nearly a dozen warehouses and other buildings at Antietam, 14 industrial buildings at the Aberdeen Proving Ground and excess family housing at Andrews Air Force base in Prince George's County.

Jeffrey Zients, a deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the list represented the "tip of the iceberg."

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