Planned hospital will be 1/3rd the size of the Pentagon

A neighbor pointed this out in DEIS comments:

• Total floor area of Pentagon: 6,636,360 sq ft -- Wikipedia
• Total floor area of Hospital's preferred Alternative 7: 2,400,000 sq ft
  
• The planned Hospital will be more than 1/3rd the size of the Pentagon.

From the Pentagon's web site: "...the Pentagon is one of the world's largest office buildings... The National Capitol could fit into any one of the five wedge-shaped sections."

Infrastructure: Scale alone doesn't explain why a facility of the size planned by the Hospital is problematic in a bottlenecked residential area. Consider the infrastructure that surrounds the Pentagon for the purpose of delivering visitors and employees:

"...people arrive daily ... over approximately 30 miles of access highways, including express bus lanes and one of the newest subway systems in our country. They... park approximately 8,770 cars in 16 parking lots" -- Pentagon web site

Final comparison: The final hospital will be 87% of the size of the Empire State Building, which has a total floor area of 2,768,591 sq ft (Wikipedia). Needless to say, Manhattan is well-served by mass transit.