In the wake of the pandemic, the federal government has ratcheted up assessing its entire office portfolio, some 363M SF owned and leased by the General Services Administration alone.
But it was the FBI’s 12M SF that came under scrutiny on Capitol Hill Wednesday as the bureau undergoes considerable shifts in where and how it uses space.
Not only are there plans to move the FBI headquarters from downtown D.C. to a new development in Greenbelt, Maryland, but the agency also has six lease prospectuses across the country due for congressional review.
The GSA, the government’s real estate arm leading the FBI headquarters relocation, submitted a report March 28 detailing its plans for acquiring the site, designing the project and building it. The House and Senate must approve the report.
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