The sprawling 662-acre plot of land in White Oak, MD, has seen better days. If not better, then at least busier ones. But that will change with FDA's migration to the area. What was once the Naval Surface Warfare Center in White Oak, a suburb of Washington DC, will now house FDA operations. Some departments have already moved in (3700 employees are there already), but the campus is undergoing a makeover for FDA's purposes. Six new buildings have been constructed and two more are on the way. The government has spent $680 million on the renovation project so far (the entire project is expected to cost $1.15 billion, including 14 new buildings and 3.1 million square feet of labs and offices). Although there doesn't appear to be a hard deadline for this transition, the White Oak facility is expected to house more than 8800 FDA employees by 2012.