Developer faces uphill battle luring FBI to Westphalia

Published May 25, 2013 4:00am ET



While many Prince George’s County officials have thrown their weight behind Greenbelt as a landing place for the new FBI headquarters, a massive Canadian developer is looking to change their minds.

The Walton Group’s proposal would swap part of its planned 479-acre Westphalia Town Center for the FBI’s much-maligned headquarters in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown D.C. The company is already planning to build hundreds of apartments and townhouses, with retail space and a 150-room hotel, on the site, located on Pennsylvania Avenue just northeast of Joint Base Andrews.

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