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…
Category: Agencies
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,…
Spotlight: FDA
In keeping with the public health theme of our last “Spotlight” piece, we’re taking a look at another of major operating component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): the Food and Drug…
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…
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…
Spotlight: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
As the winter flu season approaches, we take a look at one of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ major operating components: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC’s mission is “to…
The VA’s Ambitious Construction Program
As we alluded to in a yesterday’s post, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is in the midst of an ambitious program to build new veterans hospitals, clinics and outpatient centers throughout the nation. This past…
Spotlight: VA
With Veterans Day approaching, we turn our spotlight on the federal government’s second-largest department. With more than 10,000 employees and more than 150 hospitals, 300 vet centers and 800 community-based outpatient clinics—as well as hundreds of…