WASHINGTON — The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis will relocate from leased space in downtown D.C. to the government-owned Suitland Federal Center in Maryland this June.
The move will bring 590 jobs to Prince George’s County.
The relocation will house BEA with the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau and NOAA’s satellite operations, creating what the department now calls its “Commerce Data Campus.”
“Moving to the same campus as our statistical agency peers will enhance BEA’s capacity to meet our mission of measuring an ever-changing economy,” said BEA director Brian Moyer. “Much of the economic work at BEA and Census is already interconnected.”
BEA and its employees will be located in the same building that now houses the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Commerce Department says the move to federally-owned space will save taxpayers $66 million over the next 10 years.
