Metro News Release

For immediate release: July 24, 2008

MetroAccess and Customer Service offices to relocate to Hyattsville

Metro’s Office of Customer Service and MetroAccess Services will move to new offices in Hyattsville, Md., from Silver Spring, Md., in 2009.

Metro’s Board of Directors today authorized the Authority to negotiate and execute a lease agreement with Prince George Center I, Inc. for approximately 40,000 square feet of office space at 6505 Belcrest Road. The 10-year, $10 million lease would begin April 1, 2009. It is expected to save the transit agency nearly $6 million over 10 years compared with the renewal rate for the existing office space in Silver Spring. The current 10-year lease for the Colesville Road offices used by Customer Service, including Lost & Found, and MetroAccess expires in September 2009.

Under terms of the lease agreement, Metro would receive three months free rent and have $1.64 million to make improvements. The building offers limited free parking in an adjacent parking lot and free shuttle service from the Prince George’s Plaza Metrorail station to and from the office building during normal business hours for Metro employees and customers who need to access the building, including riders going to Metro’s Lost & Found office.

The Belcrest Road property is across from the Prince George’s Plaza Metrorail station at University Town Center, a mixed-use development. Metrobus routes C4, F6, F8, R3 and R4, as well as Prince George’s County The Bus, stop in front of the building entrance.

News release issued at 12:57 pm, July 24, 2008.