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Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray plans to propose that federal authorities relocate the FBI headquarters from its outdated building to another part of the capitol, the Washington Post reports.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…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s not the good news Prince William County has been waiting for, but it’s a good step. The county, which is a candidate for a new FBI headquarters, will be home to a new firing range for law enforcement, including federal agents, the Washington Business Journal reports. The FBI gave the county…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The competition for a new FBI headquarters and thousands of new jobs now includes Montgomery County, a suburban D.C. County in Maryland, the Washington Post reports. Montgomery joins Prince George County in Maryland and Fairfax County and Alexandria in Virginia to the list of places soliciting developers and consulting with federal officials…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s headquarters may be a crumbling eyesore, but it sits on prime real estate – midway between the White House and the U.S. Capitol. With tight budgets, the federal government is hoping it can land big bucks for the space underneath the J. Edgar Hoover building to help offset the costs of…
