Next NGA West News

The final two military construction contracts – for the visitor control center parking lot and the facility’s landscaping -- were awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to two small businesses in February, as construction continues at NGA’s new facility in north St. Louis.

This winter, NGA’s 700,000 square-foot main operations building, visitor’s center and two parking garages are receiving their finishes – furniture, paving, painting –– as construction of NGA’s new campus in north St. Louis continues toward completion.

Progress continues on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s new campus in north St. Louis this summer, as workers begin the finishes of the interior of the main operations building, in anticipation of the beginning of NGA’s scheduled move-in in 2025

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency hit another milestone to completion of its new campus in St. Louis, known as Next NGA West, as it celebrated the main operation building’s enclosure Nov. 30.

The main operations building, the MOB, received an eye-catching “touch of glass” during the last full month of summer as construction workers began installing the glass curtainwall exterior panels on the east and west employee entrances.

The final piece of structural steel was put in place – an achievement known as “topping out” – on NGA’s new facility March 3.

The steel frames and concrete foundations of NGA’s new campus in north St. Louis are sprouting up from the ground as NGA’s new facility, on schedule to open in 2025, takes shape this summer. Construction is projected to be complete in 2024, with NGA move-in complete by 2025.

Workers are laying foundations and footings for NGA’s new facility in north St. Louis as construction remains on-schedule, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The building is slated to be completed in 2023, with IT installation in 2024 and a move-in date of 2025.

Sue Pollmann, program director for the Next NGA West, said circumstances have helped keep facility construction on-track during the pandemic. “We’re still in design, and the construction work right now is outdoors and not contained inside a building,” Pollmann said. Public health experts have said the threat of virus transmission is reduced outdoors.

Officials from the Air Force, St. Louis and NGA signed a document commemorating the transfer of land from the City of St. Louis to the Air Force Dec. 13 at St. Louis Central Library – a key milestone in the development of the new NGA facility in North St. Louis.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will host a groundbreaking ceremony for its new campus in north St. Louis Tuesday, Nov. 26, beginning a new chapter for the agency.

The City of St. Louis and federal government officials announced today that they have finalized the transactional details in order to transfer to the federal government the land in North St. Louis to be used for the Next NGA West headquarters.

NGA and its Next NGA West team received national recognition with an American Planning Association award for their environmental planning related to the construction of NGA’s new campus in North City St. Louis.