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…
Author: Kurt Stout
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…
A Peek Under the Hood of GSA’s FY13 Budget Proposal
On February 13th GSA submitted its FY 2013 Congressional Justification, an outline of GSA’s planned programs and budget. At 243 pages it’s not an easy read, but there are some notable discoveries. The following is our…
Budget Infographic Round-Up
When faced with thousands of pages of budget submissions and hundreds of megabytes of data, there is nothing so wonderful as a good infographic to make sense of it all. We’ve searched the web to find…
President’s Budget Indicates Continued Austerity
Yesterday, President Obama submitted his FY 2013 budget to Congress. What was perhaps most surprising was that the budget, on the top line, actually grew slightly to $3.803 trillion. As the Brookings Institute’s William Gallston noted…
Intelligence Community Campus Plan Approved
At its monthly meeting last week, Thursday, February 2, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) unanimously approved a final master plan for the proposed $300 million Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda, a federal facility to be located on…
CPRA is Unwelcome News for Independent Agencies
This week the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1734, known as the Civilian Property Realignment Act (CPRA), with voting carried by the Republican-led House, largely along party lines. The legislation describes its purpose as “To decrease the…
House Passes “Civilian BRAC” Bill
The House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday designed to speed up the sale of large amounts of excess federal properties. The Civilian Property Alignment Act (H.R. 1734), commonly referred to as the “Civilian BRAC” bill),…
GSA Selects Trump to Redevelop Old Post Office
GSA announced this afternoon that it has chosen the Trump Organization as the preferred team to redevelop the historic Old Post Office building. This apparently concludes an effort which has been going on for more than…