The General Services Administration quietly made public the process it will use to score the three sites competing for the new FBI headquarters complex last month, and it probably astonished local, state and congressional leaders when they saw it.
Now, with a final decision imminent, local leaders are speaking out and putting pressure on the White House.
For years, access to transit, overall cost and the ability to secure the site were all thought to be the most important factors — and they’re still part of the evaluation. But the site in Springfield, Virginia, has one thing that sites in Landover and Greenbelt, Maryland, don’t — proximity to FBI facilities that already exist in Virginia, including a site in Quantico, where the bureau’s training academy and lab are.
Now, that matters more than anything else, and those involved in the negotiations in Maryland don’t think that was an accident.
Click here to read the rest of the article written by John Domen over at WTOP
