DHS HQ fail

The DHS was supposed to have already finished building and renovating its campus on the grounds of former St Elizabeth Hospital.  Now it won't be completed until at least 2026 and may never be completed.

"Inside the GSA, some officials have long been skeptical of the headquarters project — over whether it is necessary and whether enough funding will ever be obtained, according to people familiar with the undertaking."

Some of the problems:

• funding shortfalls, which delay construction and cause costs to rise
• the site is a national historic landmark and will cost millions to restore and renovate
• transportation improvements will cost much more than originally estimated
• there may be thousands of unmarked graves on the site which will require ground-penetrating radar to detect
• extremely high crime rate in the surrounding area

The site was a former insane asylum.  Could it be cursed? "As everyone knows, insane asylums— abandoned ones—are teeming with ghosts, lich kings, necromancers and other undead/ectoplasmic entities, all of which can cross the porous membrane between the corporeal and occult worlds at will. Could some sort of ancient evil buried directly below the site, coursing through the earth’s crust, be affecting construction?"

Here is a House report questioning the project: Reality Check Needed: Rising Costs and Delays in Construction of New DHS Headquarters at St. Elizabeths