Continuing his examination of underperforming and vacant federal real estate, last Friday (March 8) Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) held the first field hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Government Operations Subcommittee at Miami…
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Sequestration: It’s Here, Now What?
The Sequester has arrived–mostly unexpected, entirely unwelcome and apparently it intends to hang around a while. What does it mean for landlords of federal-leased properties? Fortunately, probably not much. At least not much new. The federal government has…
Colliers International Ranked #2 in Annual Brand Survey
Last week, the Lipsey Company announced the results of its annual global survey, again ranking Colliers International the second-most recognized commercial real estate brand in the world. Now in its twelfth year, the Lipsey survey combines voting and…
GAO Report Recommends Better Planning for Future BRAC Rounds
After completing a comprehensive analysis of BRAC 2005—the “biggest, most complex, costliest BRAC round ever”—the Government Accountability Office has released a report identifying a series of lessons learned that could be applied if Congress chooses to authorize…
House Questions FBI HQ Consolidation Process
The FBI’s search for a new headquarters—as well as GSA’s proposal to swap the dated J. Edgar Hoover (JEH) Building for a new FBI campus outside of downtown Washington, D.C.—could be complicated by the House committee…
Insight Into the Next Two Years of Federal Leasing
This past week I was treated to two events that provided great insight into what can be expected from the 113th Congress. The first of these was a February 26th Capitol Hill reception hosted by the…
Mica Holds First Hearing of House Subcommittee on Government Operations
As we reported last month, although Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) had to resign as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee because of term limits set by House Republican leaders, a reorganization of the House…
Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
Earlier this week (Wednesday, February 20), GSA rededicated the 95-year-old, 41,562-square-foot Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Grand Junction, Colo., after 23 months of construction that addressed the dual challenges of historic preservation…
State Department Campus to Expand in Foggy Bottom
As reported yesterday (Tuesday, February 19) by Dan Sernovitz in the Washington Business Journal, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) is “weighing a significant expansion of its office space in D.C.’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood, where it…
Sequester Stress
With both the House and Senate out of session this week, only four days remain for lawmakers and the White House to agree on a plan to reduce the deficit in order to avert sequestration—the $85…