Three Sites Considered for New FBI Headquarters

Wall Street Journal ^ | July 29, 2014 | ap

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation would move its headquarters from a storied, decades-old home in the nation's capital to a new location in the suburbs under a federal government proposal released Tuesday.

The General Services Administration, which oversees federal office space, named two sites in suburban Maryland and one in northern Virginia as the three finalists for the new FBI headquarters.

The J. Edgar Hoover Building, a hulking Brutalist structure, began housing FBI workers in 1974 on prime Pennsylvania Avenue real estate between the Capitol and the White House. The building, which occupies a downtown city block across the street from the Justice Department, is known by many Americans for its appearances in news broadcasts and movies. Millions have visited for tours, which are now discontinued.

But the FBI has long complained that the building—named for the agency's first and longest-serving director—is obsolete, inefficient and no longer meets the needs of an organization that has grown dramatically in the last 40 years. Those findings were confirmed by a 2011 Government Accountability Office report that agreed the building didn't meet the agency's long-term security needs. The FBI has been pushing to move thousands of employees spread among leased annexes in the region into a secure consolidated headquarters that would fit with an agency whose focus has evolved to intelligence and counterterrorism...

[Red Badger]

Is Mecca on the list?...................

[Buckeye McFrog]

At least this would end the controversy over the current FBI building being named after J. Edgar Hoover...unless they name the new one after him as well.

Welcome to the Fox Mulder FBI Headquarters Building

[Mr. K]

Rebuild the Twin Towers, place the FBI at the top of one tower, and the CIA at the top of the other tower.
That will make sure they are serious about stopping terrorism..."

Ding~! Ding~! Ding~! I THINK WE HAVE A WINNER!

[Organic Panic]

Might I suggest McAllen, Brownsville, or Tuscon.

[Paine in the Neck]

Follow the MONEY.

Some Jarrett cronies are pushing this deal, garr-on-teed.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“...the needs of an organization that has grown dramatically in the last 40 years.”

At the same time, the freedoms and liberties of the American people have been eroded dramatically in the last 40 years.

[hal ogen]

Stop building new Fed palaces. Make all agencies deal with whatever they currently have. The government is out of control in spending OUR money. They constantly whine they “need” more. BS.

[CodeToad]

AT the rate our government I spending money, the Taj Mahal, maybe Buckingham Palace.