The Center for Naval Analyses has sued Mark Center developer Duke Realty Corp. for $30 million, charging that construction of the office building violated a lease agreement Duke already had with the center.
CNA, a non-profit government analysis company, claims that Duke violated the lease when it sold vacant property at the Mark Center to the U.S. Government, which has built a new facility to house 6,400 Defense Department employees as a part of BRAC, the Army’s Base Realignment and Closure program.
“These facilities will have a serious negative impact on CNA,” President Robert Murray said in a statement. “We never intended to be a part of Fort Belvoir. … The Mark Center of today is no longer the setting CNA was promised when we signed a lease on our building ten years ago.”
Murray said CNA does not intend to delay the opening of the Army’s new office space, where defense workers are scheduled to move into in September.
