The final selection process for a new location for the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is back on track after years of delays.
The FBI headquarters has been in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in the nation’s capital since 1974, but the building is deteriorating. Trippy.com in 2012 named the agency’s home the world’s “ugliest” building and in 2005 architect Arthur Cotton Moore said the building “creates a void along Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Talks between the FBI and the General Services Administration began on a new site for the headquarters during the Bush administration. But more focused efforts got underway during the Obama administration to move the headquarters out of the District of Columbia to what eventually was narrowed down to three potential sites in the suburbs, two in Maryland and one in northern Virginia.
The Trump administration, however, decided to block efforts to move the agency’s headquarters out of Washington.
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