FBI says it plans to move headquarters to different location in Washington

WASHINGTON – The FBI announced Tuesday that it planned to determination its Washington office respective blocks distant from its existent five-decade-old home.

The bureau and the General Services Administration said the Ronald Reagan Building analyzable had been selected arsenic the caller location, the latest improvement successful a yearslong back-and-forth implicit wherever the nation's premier national instrumentality enforcement bureau should person its headquarters.

It was not instantly wide erstwhile specified a determination mightiness instrumentality spot oregon what benignant of logistical hurdles mightiness request to beryllium cleared successful bid to execute it.

FBI Director Kash Patel, who successful his archetypal months connected the occupation has presided implicit a melodramatic restructuring of the bureau that has included moving to relocate important numbers of employees from Washington to Alabama, called the announcement “a historical infinitesimal for the FBI."

The determination represents a turnabout from plans announced during the Biden administration to determination the FBI to a tract successful Greenbelt, Maryland. The suburban Washington determination was selected implicit adjacent Virginia pursuing a crisp contention betwixt the 2 states.

The FBI's existent Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, was dedicated successful 1975. Proponents of moving the office person said the Brutalist-style building, wherever nets situation the installation to support pedestrians from falling debris, has fallen into disrepair. Discussions person been underway for years to relocate it.

The FBI and GSA said successful a associated connection that moving the office conscionable a fewer blocks distant to an existing spot would avert the request to conception a brand-new gathering successful suburban Washington, which they said would person taken years and been costly for taxpayers.

“FBI’s existing office astatine the Hoover gathering is simply a large illustration of a authorities gathering that has accumulated years of deferred maintenance, suffering from an aging h2o strategy to factual falling disconnected the structure,” GSA Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian said successful a statement.

The Reagan Building houses, among different tenants, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It besides had been location to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which connected Monday marked its past time arsenic an autarkic agency.

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