The FBI will relocate its moth-eaten headquarters from the Hoover Building to the Ronald Reagan Building downtown once USAID has fully vacated the complex.
The shuffle caps nearly 20 years of bureaucratic waffling over where to park the nation’s premier law enforcement agency. By opting for a ready-made federal property—freshly emptied when the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officially shuttered operations Tuesday—the Trump administration said it will save taxpayers billions while giving agents a secure, modern workplace.
FBI Director Kash Patel said in a press release:
We are ushering FBI Headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work.
Further:
Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.
General Services Administration (GSA) Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian, whose agency manages the federal real estate portfolio, said:
[The Hoover Building] has accumulated years of deferred maintenance, suffering from an aging water system to concrete following off the structure.
USAID’s exit made the move possible. The development agency had been headquartered in the Reagan complex since 1998 but was stripped of its lease in February, according to multiple reports. Rubio confirmed the broader shutdown Tuesday, writing that USAID “will officially cease to implement foreign assistance” as its functions fold into the State Department.
The Reagan Building already houses U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) and several private tenants. GSA says it will “work with CBP and their agency partners to fulfill their mission while the transition of the FBI to the Reagan Building commences.”
The Red Dot pinpoints the Hoover Building.
Officials have not released a firm timetable for the relocation. What is to happen to the hulking brutalist Hoover block remains unclear. GSA has yet to announce whether it will pursue demolition, redevelopment or sale. Neither the GSA nor the FBI immediately responded to requests for comment.
Final thought: Level the Hoover Building and turn the grounds into a city park named after President Trump.
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Author: Nathanael Greene
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