Greater Washington’s office landlords shouldn’t be worried about the proposed House resolution that would unwed federal agency headquarters from Greater Washington, according to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, recently introduced the nonbinding resolution, one that could deal a heavy blow to the D.C. area’s office market if it results in agency relocations to other parts of the country. That’s not a prospect landlords who now lease space to the government should lose sleep over, Bowser said, and she offers up three letters of support for her argument: FBI.
The General Services Administration recently announced it would not move forward with plans to shift the FBI’s headquarters from downtown D.C. to a new site in suburban Maryland or Northern Virginia pending additional appropriations. The decision came more than four years after the GSA first floated the prospect of swapping the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover building on Pennsylvania Avenue for a new one.
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