The VA's Enhanced-Use Lease Program Is Working but Not At Ft. Howard

The video and list below shows us that some of the Department of Veterans Affairs Enhanced-Use Lease deals have been successful - all over America. Through this (EUL) program, VA out-leases underutilized real estate under its jurisdiction or control to the private sector for up to 75 years for the purpose of developing supportive housing for homeless and at risk Veterans and their families. But the VA's EUL for the Fort Howard, Maryland VAMC property has yet to create any homes for veterans, or anyone else. 

The Ft. Howard EUL got off to a bad beginning, in 2004, when the VA signed a memorandum of understanding with (fake) property developer John D. Infantino. In 2006, Infantino signed a VA lease to the Ft Howard property. In 2009, the VA cancelled that lease, due to John Infantino not doing anything to make the development project happen. For John David Infantino, it is all about making it appear that he has the intent, ways and means to complete a project, so he can scam investors into giving him investment money for doing the project. He lives well on what he bilks from those investors. Infantino has never done any actual property development.

Infantino's scam against the VA's Enhanced-Use Lease of the Fort Howard VAMC property is still instrumental in the delay of the veterans community development proposed for that Ft. Howard property. That fraud crippled the momentum of the project, because too much of the public and the governments no longer believe a veterans community is possible on Ft. Howard. That property rots from the natural elements and suffers further destruction by a mass of vandalism. Although other VA properties around the country have been completed by true developers, and the VA had declared Ft. Howard to be the first to be done plus an example of how the others were to be done.

A second lease to the Ft Howard VA was signed with the VA by Tim Munshell and Carl Williams, in 2012, but neither had ever done such a development project. Williams had lied to Munshell and everyone about having $50,000,000 to bring to the project. And due to that lie & more, Williams was removed from, or left, the Ft. Howard EUL deal, and it became all up to Tim Munshell to acquire all funding. Carl Williams not living up to his promises made it tougher for Munshell, but Tim Munshell's abilities to earn honest money have always been as a middle-man between the VA, investors, a fully capable developer, and to work with the head contractor. Tim is well reputed to be very good at helping contractors secure investment funding and being of solid value in certain capacities on a construction project, but not as the head of one. Tim eventually managed to turn the lease over to Sam Himmelrich. Then Himmelrich employed Munshell on the FT. Howard project, because Tim had studied the property well and knows how to help where his skills and experience are useful. Sam Himmelrich has a proven record of completing successful property developments.

All of us veterans' service to the United States has paid to have that VA property be used to our advantage.




Here is the latest list of EUL's from https://www.va.gov/assetmanagement/ :

Location State EUL Type
Housing Type Lease Awarded Status  
1 Albany NY Parking 8/5/2009 Active  
2 Atlanta GA Office 12/18/1997 Active  
3 Barbers Point HI Permanent and Transitional 3/17/2003 Active
4 Batavia NY Transitional 5/24/2002 Active
5 Batavia NY Senior 12/22/2008 Active  
6 Battle Creek MI Transitional 12/22/2008 Active  
7 Bedford MA Permanent 9/10/2004 Active  
8 Bedford MA Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Active  
9 Brockton MA Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
10 Butler PA Mental Health Facility 12/18/2003 Active  
11 Butler PA Transitional 4/17/2007 Active  
12 Canandaigua NY Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Active  
13 Charleston/MUSC SC Driveway 5/18/2004 Active  
14 Chicago (Westside) IL Office 4/22/2002 Active  
15 Chicago (Westside) IL Energy 8/12/2002 Active  
16 Chillicothe OH Mixed Use 12/22/2008 Active  
17 Chillicothe OH Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
18 Cleveland OH Mixed Use 10/1/2009 Active  
19 Columbia SC Mixed Use 11/19/2007 Active  
20 Dallas TX Child Development Center 12/20/1999 Active  
21 Danville IL Senior 4/27/1999 Active  
22 Danville IL Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
23 Dayton OH Permanent 12/30/2004 Active  
24 Dayton OH Child Development Center 12/30/2004 Active  
25 Dayton OH Transitional 4/19/2007 Active  
26 Dayton OH Transitional 11/5/2008 Active  
27 Dayton OH Senior 12/30/2011 Active  
28 Durham NC Mixed Use 1/3/2002 Active  
29 Grand Island NE Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
30 Hines IL Transitional 8/22/2003 Active  
31 Hines IL Senior 7/30/2004 Active  
32 Hines IL Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
33 Houston TX Mixed Use 8/23/1993 Active  
34 Indianapolis IN Mixed Use 9/23/1996 Active  
35 Kerrville TX Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
36 Leavenworth KS Permanent 8/5/2005 Active  
37 Lincoln NE Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
38 Lyons NJ Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
39 Memphis I TN Parking 12/30/2011 Active  
40 Menlo Park CA Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
41 Milwaukee WI Office 7/17/2003 Active  
42 Minneapolis MN Credit Union 8/17/2004 Active  
43 Minneapolis MN Permanent 9/1/2005 Active  
44 Minneapolis MN Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
45 Minneapolis II MN Permanent 6/2/2016 Active  
46 Mound City IL Office 11/6/2003 Active  
47 Mountain Home TN Medical School 12/17/1998 Active  
48 Mountain Home TN Energy 12/2/1999 Active  
49 Newington CT Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
50 North Chicago IL Energy 5/21/2002 Active  
51 Northampton MA Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Active  
52 Pershing Hall, Paris* FR Hotel 10/16/1998 Active  
53 Portland OR Crisis Triage Center 2/13/2004 Active  
54 Roseburg OR Transitional 8/1/2000 Active  
55 Roseburg OR Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
56 Salt Lake City UT Office 5/9/2001 Active  
57 Salt Lake City UT Transitional 8/30/2011 Active  
58 Salt Lake City II UT Mixed Use 9/20/2006 Active  
59 Sepulveda CA Permanent 12/21/2007 Active  
60 Sepulveda CA Permanent 12/21/2007 Active  
61 Sioux Falls SD Parking 4/1/1999 Active  
62 Somerville NJ Mixed Use 9/5/2003 Active  
63 St. Cloud MN Golf Course 7/28/1997 Active  
64 St. Cloud MN Permanent 5/24/2005 Active  
65 St. Cloud MN Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
66 Tuscaloosa AL Hospice 9/19/2002 Active  
67 Tuscaloosa AL Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
68 Vancouver WA Permanent 7/14/1998 Active  
69 Vancouver WA Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
70 Viera FL Assisted Living 12/13/2011 Active  
71 Walla Walla WA Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
72 Washington DC Child Development Center 4/20/1993 Active  
73 West LA CA Permanent 5/18/2017 Active  
74 West Palm Beach FL Office 11/14/1994 Active  
75 Augusta I GA Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
76 Augusta II GA Permanent 12/30/2011 Construction  
77 Fort Harrison MT Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
78 Fort Howard MD Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
79 Perry Point MD Permanent 12/30/2011 Construction  
80 Togus ME Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
81 Newington CT Assisted Living 12/27/2011 Development  
82 Northport NY Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Development  
83 Alexandria LA Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
84 Batavia NY Terminated 5/24/2002 Terminated  
85 Bath NY Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
86 Bay Pines FL Terminated 5/22/1997 Terminated  
87 Big Spring TX Terminated 3/8/1996 Terminated  
88 Cheyenne WY Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
89 Chicago (Lakeside) IL Terminated 1/18/2005 Terminated  
90 Dayton II OH Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
91 Fort Howard MD Terminated 9/28/2006 Terminated  
92 Knoxville IA Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
93 Memphis II TN Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
94 North Chicago IL Terminated 4/10/2002 Terminated  
95 North Little Rock AR Golf Course 10/1/1998 Terminated  
96 Sacramento CA Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
97 Salem VA Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
98 Topeka KS Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
99 West Haven CT Terminated 12/1/1994 Terminated