It’s that time of year. Market reports are published, conferences held and presentations delivered. We are all talking about the market: “What happened last year?” and “What can we forecast for this next year and beyond?” Unfortunately,…
Author: Kurt Stout
2012: Government Real Estate Year In Review
If you think the world of government real estate is a staid and boring place, think again. There is a lot going on: big transactions, important policy and outright scandal. 2012 was no exception. We published…
Contract Awarded for New L.A. Courthouse
Downtown Los Angeles is one step closer to getting a new federal courthouse. Earlier this month (Dec. 10), GSA awarded a $318 million design-build contract for the project to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Clark…
Feds Moving in Both Kansas Cities (Missouri and Kansas)
As we reported back in February, GSA has been planning to move about 1,000 employees from its Heartland Region Headquarters at the Bannister Federal Complex to leased space in downtown Kansas City, Mo. Earlier this month (on…
An Early Look at Trump’s Old Post Office Hotel
Earlier this year, GSA announced that it had selected the Trump Organization to redevelop the historic Old Post Office Pavilion and annex as a world-class luxury hotel. Since then, the Trump team (headed by the Donald’s daughter,…
The Other Side: St Elizabeths East
While GSA and DHS have been working on the much-delayed DHS Headquarters Campus on (primarily) the west side of the former St Elizabeths Hospital site, the District of Columbia has been planning its own redevelopment project…
New Approach Needed for St. Elizabeths DHS HQ?
The original $3.45 billion plan to consolidate the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters at a 4.5 million-square-foot campus on the site of the former St. Elizabeths Hospital—moving more than 14,000 workers from more than…
Colliers Publishes its 2013 Global Office Outlook
Colliers International has released its 2013 Global Office Outlook noting that the world economy has seen recent headwinds from the smoldering eurozone debt crisis, slowing growth in China’s economy and the forecasted American fiscal cliff. Yet,…
GSA Issues RFIs for FBI HQ, Federal Triangle South
Yesterday (Monday, December 3, 2012), GSA formally sought new ideas on how to develop a consolidated FBI headquarters campus—possibly by exchanging the much maligned J. Edgar Hoover (JEH) FBI Building (and the land on which it…
Shuster Will Chair House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
As we predicted earlier this month, Rep. William “Bill” Shuster (R-Pa.) will replace Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) as chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee—the body that provides oversight for public buildings issues—in the 113th Congress. Mica,…