The Normal Companies Administration has begun lining up the funding for one of many federal authorities’s greatest improvement initiatives—a brand new headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The FBI has been planning for a number of years to relocate to a suburban campus from the dour concrete monolith it has been occupying since 1975 on 10th Avenue close to the White Home.
Later this 12 months, the bureau will select between three finalist places for the brand new HQ, which has an estimated price ticket of $4B:
The three websites, narrowed down in 2016 after which shelved for a number of years till Congress resumed funding final 12 months, include two properties in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and a 3rd website in Fairfax County, Virginia.
The websites in Maryland embody an 80-acre website of the previous Landover Mall, owned by Lerner Enterprises, and a 61-acre website in proximity to the Greenbelt Metro station, the land owned by the state and the metro line. The Virginia website is a 58-acre warehouse advanced in Springfield on federally owned land.
Final week, the GSA launched its funds request for the FBI HQ mission, which indicated GSA will use a brand new $10B Federal Capital Revolving Fund to fund the development of the FBI headquarters, with annual appropriations of $233M over the subsequent 15 years, along with $645M that was appropriated in final 12 months’s funds.
“GSA and FBI are at the moment working to pick out one of many three websites beforehand included within the 2016 procurement, on which GSA will assemble a federally owned, fashionable and safe headquarters facility for at the very least 7,500 personnel within the DC suburbs,” GSA stated, in an announcement accompanying the funds request.
GSA launched its choice standards for the FBI headquarters mission in September, calling them “mission necessities,” together with a location in proximity to the FBI Academy in Quantico.
So as of precedence, GSA listed its standards as “FBI Mission,” transportation entry, racial equality, improvement flexibility of the positioning and price.
Along with the FBI HQ mission, GSA additionally proposed in its funds request $193M for a consolidation of Division of Homeland Safety services on the St. Elizabeth’s West campus and $91M for repairs on the Ronald Reagan Constructing.
Till it moved into its present HQ in northwest DC in 1975, the FBI was housed within the Division of Justice Constructing, now named for Robert F. Kennedy.
