Sunday, January 3, 2016

The decrepit FBI headquarters

The Hoover Building, the headquarters for the FBI, is falling apart.  Only 53% of the space is usable, and so much concrete was tumbling down on pedestrians below that netting had to be installed.  To repair it to make is usable would cost $1.7 billion.

The best option is to build a new headquarters at a cost of up to $2 billion while selling the existing site to developers for $500 million to fund it.  But they don't have funding for the difference.  So the formerly elite FBI is stuck in this rundown building for the indefinite future.

See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2015/10/16/the-fbis-headquarters-is-falling-apart-why-is-it-so-hard-for-america-to-build-a-new-one/


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