By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Federal and local officials broke ground Wednesday for a new $60 million, four-story FBI field office in Portland, Ore., The Oregonian newspaper reported. It is third FBI field in the nation under construction.
The new office is part of an effort by the FBI to update offices and make them more secure, the Oregonian reported. It said after Sept. 11, when the agency started adding more agents, the FBI found that 35 of its 56 field offices had insufficient security or no room to expand.
The Portland office is being built in the northeast sector of the city, near the Portland International Airport.
The Portland field office will consist of three buildings: a four-story office complex, a maintenance and repair annex and a 203- space parking structure, the Oregonian reported.
Office are also being built in Minneapolis and Cincinnati, the Oregonian reported.
