The General Services Administration (GSA) Mid-Atlantic Region announced that it has selected and purchased approximately 60 acres of land for the site of the FBI's Central Records Complex (CRC) in Winchester/Frederick County, Virginia. The federal agency paid $4.75 million for a site in Frederick County, Virginia off U.S. 50 where it plans to build a $109 million facility where more than 440 employees would work, according to a Virginia Business report. The purchase and development plan is part of the agency's strategy to condense the bureau's vast records repositories into one site.
"The centralization of FBI records consolidates records from 265 current locations into a single facility," said Joanna Rosato, Regional Commissioner of GSA's Public Buildings Service in the Mid-Atlantic Region, in a press release. "The CRC will provide the infrastructure and technology for the FBI to continue to digitize records on demand."
The site at 2117 Millwood Pike, known as Arcadia, will support construction of approximately 256,000 Gross Square Feet facility, including a secure perimeter, visitor screening center and truck screening facility, guard booth, and surface parking lot. The new facility will be National Archives and Records Administration-compliant secured, with environmentally conditioned, fire-protected space that will provide records storage combined with material handling and operational support areas. The FBI said it digitizes at least 20 million pages per year to make them searchable and CRC will house both infrastructure and technology for the bureau to carry out the digitization effort.
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