The City of St. Louis has reached a Land Development, Remediation, and Transfer Agreement with the U.S. Air Force and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), paving the way for construction of the new NGA West facility on the city’s near North Side.
The agreement establishes the legal framework for the U.S. Air Force to acquire approximately 97 acres of brownfield redevelopment land in the City of St. Louis, which will be the site for the new NGA West facility.
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt announced the agreement on Thursday, June 29.
“With today’s agreement, we are one step closer to breaking ground on the new NGA West facility,” Blunt said in statement.
“This agreement has been months in the making, and I appreciate all of the hard work the Air Force, Corps of Engineers, NGA, Environmental Protection Agency, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and St. Louis city officials have put in to get this done.”
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill quickly followed with a statement.
“This is a big step towards making the new NGA headquarters a reality, which will be an economic boon to a community that’s already making great economic strides,” McCaskill stated. “Keeping the NGA in Missouri is good for the more than 3,000 employees and their proud legacy on the front lines of American intelligence.”
In June 2016, the NGA finalized its selection of North St. Louis as the site for the new NGA West headquarters. Blunt, McCaskill and U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay all pushed hard to keep the NGA West facility, currently located on the city’s near South Side, in the city of St. Louis.
