The Washington Business Journal did a little snooping and discovered that McLean’s own Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is buying up a new office in Dulles.
The Journal reported on Friday (June 27) that the CIA — appropriately through a pseudonym but linked to the same exclusive ZIP code — has purchased the 434,000-square-foot Dulles Discovery 2 office building at 13870 Air and Space Museum Parkway.
Part of the larger Dulles Discovery office park, the site sold for $246 million on May 29, according to Fairfax County property records. The 10-story building was constructed in 2010 as part of the office park’s second phase of development.
The CIA declined to comment when reached by FFXnow, as did a spokesperson for Peterson Companies, which developed the Dulles Discovery complex.
The CIA has leased space at the Dulles Discovery campus for years, but the latest sale represents the intelligence agency’s largest acquisition, according to the WBJ. The agency also bought what appears to be the Dulles Discovery 3 parking lot on Historic Sully Way for over $9 million on Jan. 4, 2024.
Dulles Discovery currently encompasses five buildings with a total of 1.8 million square feet of space. The most recent building was completed last year, adding 514,000 square feet of rentable space, according to Peterson’s website.
A sixth phase is planned that would bring the campus up to 2.8 million square feet, per Dewberry, which provided engineering services for the development.
