Surprisingly, the U.S. Constitution makes no provisions for a federal budget and, in fact, the federal government operated without a comprehensive budget process until 1921. The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, which has been amended…
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Spotlight: NGA
What little-known agency occupies the third-largest federal facility in the Washington, D.C., area (after the Pentagon and the Ronald Reagan building)? Last year, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), part of the Department of Defense, moved into…
Join Colliers International in “Everyone Gives”
With today’s post we take a break from our usual review of government real estate to instead focus on a unique social giving campaign: Everyone Gives. This event—the most inclusive initiative of its kind—enables charities, companies and public…
DCBIA Meeting Review
This morning the District of Columbia Building Industry Association (DCBIA) hosted its seminar entitled “GSA Downsizing – A Perfect Storm Looming”, consisting of a panel of government officials and private sector professionals. We were there and…
The Bow Wave
Ever wonder why each time you see a graph of GSA lease expirations, it seems like the expirations volume in the upcoming year is the largest ever? Well, there’s a logical, and unfortunate, reason for it:…
GSA’s Largest Tenants
One of the more intriguing charts in GSA’s recent Congressional Justification is its “Summary of Billed Inventory” or, to put it another way, its largest tenants. It’s not a universally understood fact that GSA is the…
Spotlight: GSA
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is the federal government’s “workplace solutions provider.” It aims to leverage its enormous buying power to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and enhance flexibility and convenience for both federal agencies and…
GSA Moving to Downtown Kansas City
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced on Wednesday (Feb. 15) that it will relocate about 1,000 employees from its Heartland Region headquarters at the Bannister Federal Complex—a 5.1 million-square-foot former defense plant in south Kansas City—to…
Bannister Federal Complex Closing
The Bannister Federal Complex, located at 1500 and 2000 E. Bannister Road in south Kansas City, Mo., 13 miles south of downtown, will be largely shut down within the next two years, according to a GSA…
Evolving Green: LEED 2012
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is updating its LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program in response to concerns that the existing program rewards individual green features without ensuring that a building as a…