President Obama has proposed a new round of military base closures and realignments in his FY 2014 budget. That budget contains a $2.4 billion line item calling for two new rounds of the Base Realignment and…
Author: Kurt Stout
Award-Winning Census Bureau HQ
As we noted in a recent post, AIA DC (the Washington chapter of the American Institute of Architects) gave the U.S. Bureau of the Census headquarters a 2012 Award of Excellence in Architecture. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill…
USPS Speeds Up Plant Closings
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is accelerating its plans to consolidate mail processing plants, adding dozens of those originally scheduled to be closed in 2014 to the list of facilities already set to be shuttered this…
Looking Back on BRAC: Redeveloping the Former Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
From 1909 through mid-2011, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC, originally known as the Walter Reed General Hospital) was the U.S. Army’s flagship medical center. Located on a 110-acre site in Upper Northwest Washington, D.C.,…
Freezing the Federal Footprint
As it noted in a White House blog posting by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Controller Danny Werfel Thursday, the Obama Administration has made disposing of unneeded properties and making more efficient use of the…
FBI HQ Consolidation Hearing
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) held his first hearing as chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management yesterday (Wednesday, March 13). The hearing examined the proposal to…
Mica Holds Another Field Hearing in Miami
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…
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…