Northern Virginia Training Center Is For Sale: Media Report

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A 78-acre campus where developmentally disabled people once learned job skills is being put up for sale, according to a media report.

A real estate brokerage is marketing the Northern Virginia Training Center, on Braddock Road east of George Mason University, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. The campus has 14 buildings with a total of nearly 250,000 square feet of space.

The brokerage was hired by the Virginia Department of General Services, which is divesting the campus under the terms of a $2 billion settlement reached in 2012 with the federal government. The commonwealth agreed to close the Northern Virginia center and three other centers in Virginia to comply with an order from the U.S. Justice Department.

In a three-year investigation, the Justice Department found that Virginia was housing too many developmentally disabled people in institutions, and called for the commonwealth to provide services to them in local communities.