Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has moved into a massive glass complex in Sorrento Valley, Calif. San Diego’s new headquarters opened among technology and biotech giants who have made that area popular. The $120 million complex was aimed at improving security and providing ample space for the 400 or so special agents and other staff…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The General Services Association soon will begin accepting proposals to relocate FBI headquarters beginning this summer, the Kingstowne-Rose Hill Patch reports. The FBI has received numerous preliminary proposals from surrounding cities to be home to the new FBI headquarters. The current headquarters in Washington D.C. is outdated and crumbling, the GSA has…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has received at least 35 proposals so far to relocate the FBI’s headquarters, and most are in the suburbs. But the Washingtonian reports that one plan would keep the headquarters in downtown Washington near the Union Station. The proposal by Republic Properties and renowned architect Arthur Cotton Moore calls for…
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…
