Following his inauguration ceremony on January 20th, President Biden settled into the Oval Office to execute a stack of executive orders and other actions. The third document he signed serves to return the United States to…
Category: Stimulus
Can We Expect the Government Sector to Outperform? Lessons from the Last Fiscal Crisis
Kevin Warsh, a Federal Reserve governor during the Great Recession, noted in a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this year, “If you’ve seen one financial crisis, you’ve seen one financial crisis.” That is to say, all…
Many Winners in Federal Building Challenge
Competitors vie for neither lucrative NBA contracts nor sizable office bracket pools in GSA’s March Madness-style Federal Building Challenge. An annual competition between sustainable buildings around the country, the contest awards the winner only bragging rights…
Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Byron G. Rogers Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
The GSA is committed to responsible caretaking of its historic building legacy, which includes courthouses, post offices, border stations and offices around the country. The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (AARA) is facilitating the agency’s…
Modernized Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building Re-Opens
On May 30, Portland, Oregon, celebrated the completion of a $139 million renovation of the 18-story Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building (EGWW). First opened in 1975, the boxy, concrete-and-steel high rise, aging home to the IRS,…
Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
Earlier this week (Wednesday, February 20), GSA rededicated the 95-year-old, 41,562-square-foot Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Grand Junction, Colo., after 23 months of construction that addressed the dual challenges of historic preservation…
Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building
A green roof is the centerpiece of the renovated 75-year-old Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Antonio, part of what makes it the “greenest” building owned by GSA. It is the first…
Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building
The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building is a seven-story, 617,600-square-foot structure in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, near the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport. Designed by Cerny Associates in the austere modernist style popular in the 1960s and completed…
Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: U.S. Courthouse, Bakersfield, California
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) signed by President Obama in 2009 called for major new construction and the energy-efficient modernization of federal office buildings, courthouses and land ports across the country. This is the…
Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Federal Center South
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed by President Obama on February 13, 2009, called for major new construction and the energy-efficient modernization of federal office buildings, courthouses and land ports across the country. This is…