Numerous corporations have blown huge amounts of money on giant corporate headquarters, even to the extent that such expenditures damaged the company. Why do organizations blow such damaging sums on something they generally don’t need, and which are often counterproductive? It’s about ego. It’s about showing the other companies how successful they are. Something similar happens among heads of government agencies. “Mine is bigger than yours.” The original need for corporate and governmental headquarters is that it made communications easy. But there is literally no need today to bring everyone together in one spot for the sake of communications and coordination. Doing so is actually a danger. An entire organization can be wiped out by a single incident, be it a natural disaster or a manmade disaster. Why does government still operate like it’s 1940? ‘Cause mine is bigger than yours?
This FBI facility will be larger than the Pentagon. Why?
I would argue it is an indicator of where DC's priorities and focus lie. And ain't good for us outside of DC.