Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The battle to land the new headquarters of the FBI has turned ugly, NBC 4 Washington reports. In one case, a Fairfax County official took a swipe at Prince George’s County, saying it’s the place where the FBI would be busy because of criminals. “I made that comment in the context of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A congressional subcommittee plans to launch an investigation into the FBI’s search for a new headquarters, a move that could delay or derail the project the Washington Business Journal reports. Some in Congress are questioning why the facility needs to be Metro accessible and how to maximize the value of the current…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI’s search for a new headquarters has drawn nearly three dozen offers from private and local groups, the Baltimore Sun reports. The FBI wants to abandon its 38-year-old headquarters because it has outgrown the crumbling building and wants to find a new one that can accommodate 2.1 million square feet of offices…
Garrett M. Graff Washington Post The FBI lists its official address as 935 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, as if one could wander by the angular, concrete, block-size headquarters without noticing the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The aging 11-story monstrosity — an especially ugly example of the Brutalist movement in architecture — is nearing the end of its…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray plans to propose that federal authorities relocate the FBI headquarters from its outdated building to another part of the capitol, the Washington Post reports. Sources told the Post that Gray wants feds to move headquarters from Pennsylvania Avenue NW to Poplar Point, between Interstate 295 and the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Prince George County is trying to sweeten its deal to attract the FBI’s new headquarters, the Washington Post reports. A committee of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is expected to vote Thursday on whether to offer the FBI 78 acres at the Greenbelt station to bolster a relocation deal. The Post…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent with extensive experience in counterterrorism is taking over the bureau’s Albany Division, the Associated Press reports. Andrew Vale has been named agent in charge of the division, which is responsible for investigations in northern New York and Vermont, the AP wrote. Vale began his career with the FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The federal government is hoping to trade the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. for a new home without any additional costs, the Washington Business Journal reports. Officials from the FBI and General Services Administration met with about 350 interested developers last week to outline the plan, the Journal wrote. The FBI is…
