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Fort Monroe
Shook Kelley worked with the Fort Monroe Authority (FMA) as urban design consultant for the future transition of this historic, Pre-Civil War Era Federal military base into a redeveloped site for public/private use.
Fort Monroe is currently a United States Army base located in the Hampton Roads/Tidewater area of Virginia. Fort Monroe’s current boundaries encompass 570 acres, including 110 acres of submerged lands and 85 acres of wetlands. In addition to more than 180 historic structures and features that contribute to the Fort Monroe NHL District, the namesake stone fort completed in 1834 is of particular size and import. Fort Monroe was built for coastal defense and housed one of the Army’s first field schools of military education.
In 2007, the Virginia Assembly established the Fort Monroe Authority or FMA. The FMA is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia and serves with the Department of Defense as the Local Redevelopment Authority for the site. In accordance with the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission’s plan, the U.S. Army closed and decommissioned it’s base at Fort Monroe on September 15, 2011. It is the FMA’s responsibility to guide the process of transitioning the ownership, operation and fiscal responsibility of the property from the Federal to the State level.
Shook Kelley assisted the FMA with the process of envisioning the future of the property and creating a reuse strategy for it. The principal goals of this process is leveraging and securitizing the value inherent both the property’s historic components as well as it’s broad development potential. The first phases of the Project (Phase 1 and Phase 2) provided the FMA with a summary document that depicts this future in a concise yet meaningful way to both the Department of Defense as well as to potential future development partners, stakeholders and the public.
Fort Monroe is currently a United States Army base located in the Hampton Roads/Tidewater area of Virginia. Fort Monroe’s current boundaries encompass 570 acres, including 110 acres of submerged lands and 85 acres of wetlands. In addition to more than 180 historic structures and features that contribute to the Fort Monroe NHL District, the namesake stone fort completed in 1834 is of particular size and import. Fort Monroe was built for coastal defense and housed one of the Army’s first field schools of military education.
In 2007, the Virginia Assembly established the Fort Monroe Authority or FMA. The FMA is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia and serves with the Department of Defense as the Local Redevelopment Authority for the site. In accordance with the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission’s plan, the U.S. Army closed and decommissioned it’s base at Fort Monroe on September 15, 2011. It is the FMA’s responsibility to guide the process of transitioning the ownership, operation and fiscal responsibility of the property from the Federal to the State level.
Shook Kelley assisted the FMA with the process of envisioning the future of the property and creating a reuse strategy for it. The principal goals of this process is leveraging and securitizing the value inherent both the property’s historic components as well as it’s broad development potential. The first phases of the Project (Phase 1 and Phase 2) provided the FMA with a summary document that depicts this future in a concise yet meaningful way to both the Department of Defense as well as to potential future development partners, stakeholders and the public.