VA to Develop Miramar

VA Secretary Announces $1 Million to Develop New Miramar Annex

WASHINGTON (July 10, 2009) - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has
awarded nearly $1 million to a small business to begin expanding
burial services for Veterans in the San Diego area by developing the
new Miramar Annex.

"VA is committed to providing the best possible service to the Veterans
of southern California by developing new burial areas and building
permanent facilities at the Miramar Annex," Secretary of Veterans
Affairs Eric K. Shinseki said.

The Miramar Annex will be part of the area's Fort Rosecrans National
Cemetery. VA awarded Van Dyke Landscape Architects the
architect-engineer contract totaling $961,000 to develop additional
gravesites and infrastructure. This design project is scheduled for
completion this fall.

When completed, the new designs for the project will provide 11,700
conventional gravesites, 10,300 columbaria niches and 4,900 in-ground
cremation sites. The project will also include an administration
building, a maintenance complex, two committal service shelters and a
public assembly area, as well as an irrigation system, roads,
utilities,
signage and landscaping.

In the midst of the largest cemetery expansion since the Civil War, VA
operates 128 national cemeteries in 39 states and Puerto Rico and 33
soldiers' lots and monument sites. More than three million Americans,
including Veterans of every war and conflict - from Revolutionary War
to the Global War on Terror - are buried in VA's national
cemeteries.

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