A standout four-story class-A office block in a business park in Bowie, MD is where the Melford Plaza business center is located. The high-impact building features a two-story lobby that includes a rotating metal sculpture. It's equally impressive from the outside, with ribbons of blue glass interspersed by brick - all set within scenic trails overlooking a lake. Multiple business sectors are represented in this planned business community, which is easy to find from the intersection of routes 50 and 3/301 between Annapolis, 15 miles away and Washington DC, 12 miles away. The city of Bowie is a dynamic business community, with a lively retail sector and several major government facilities, including the US Census Bureau Computer Facility and the Institute for Defense Analysis Computer Center. Its talent pool is drawn from major educational institutions within a 28-mile radius, from Bowie State University to the world-class Johns Hopkins University.