Updated to clarify that a limited number of personnel will be moving.

Updated with number of square feet MEDCOM will occupy.

Part of the administrative staff of the U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM), based out of Fort Sam Houston, will be moving into the Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse at Alamo Plaza this summer, the federal government confirmed to The Downtown Blog on Wednesday.

“GSA’s mission is to deliver the best value in real estate services to our federal partners so they can focus on their mission,” Sylvia Hernandez, U.S. General Services Administration acting regional administrator, wrote in a statement. “We are excited to be able to satisfy MEDCOM’s space needs in the Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and pleased to report that the addition of this sizable tenant brings us closer to reaching our occupancy goals of 100 percent.”

MEDCOM staff will occupy 27,000 square feet of office space, bringing he Hipolito’s total occupancy to 95 percent. This would leave 7,000 square feet of a total 124,065 square feet left for the GSA to market to interested federal agencies. The GSA did not divulge the number of employees moving into the Hipolito.

As for parking, MEDCOM staff will be using most of the spaces at the adjacent seven-level parking garage at East Travis Street and Avenue E.

In 2012, a $56.6 million renovation of the Hipolito building, funded by the Recovery Act, was completed. The GSA, the real estate arm of the federal government, has consolidated several local federal operations into the building, including the local offices of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Administrative Offices of the Courts.

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