Posted on 07/03/2025 6:36:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has selected a new headquarters building in Washington, D.C., after two decades of failed attempts to find a permanent new space, the Bureau announced on Tuesday.
The FBI has been headquartered in downtown D.C. at the J. Edgar Hoover building since 1975 but structural problems have plagued the building for the 20 years, leading to redevelopment and relocation projects that until Thursday had not successfully been resolved.
"This is a historic moment for the FBI," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement, adding he is "ushering FBI Headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work."
The Bureau and the U.S. General Services Administration selected the Ronald Reagan Building, blocks away from the Hoover building, as the new location. It was home to the U.S. Agency for International Development until this year, when the Trump administration consolidated USAID into the State Department and allowed Customs and Border Protection to take over the building's lease.
"Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution," Patel continued.
It is unclear when the FBI will begin its transition out of the Hoover building.
In a March speech at the Justice Department, President Trump said his administration is "going to build another big FBI building right where it is, which would have been the right place, because the FBI and the DOJ have to be near each other."
"They were going to build an FBI headquarters three hours away in Maryland, a liberal state," Mr. Trump said, adding that the state's political leadership had "no bearing" on his decision to cancel a Biden administration plan to move the headquarters to Maryland.
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USAID is now dead and gone. This is like dancing on its grave. I love it.
The new FBI building won’t be bugged.
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I hope they tear the old one down. It’s one of the ugliest Brutalist buildings in DC.
I like it. It's so ugly that it's beautiful.
It’s dreadful; and it’s falling apart.
I thought they had fancy modern space in Clarksburg, WV.
Maybe they should build the new headquarters in Gary Indiana. Or perhaps New Orleans, LA.
Break up the DC cartel no spread them out. Move the FIB headquarters to Detroit or Memphis. Same for all other federal agencies.
They should renovate it and then make it a museum.
The RRB is nice. Great food court.
Fumigate ,burn , and bulldoze The rubble. It’s the only way to be certain that Hoover doesn’t return from the dead.
Agreed. Don't know what it's like post-covid.
It doesn’t even have the ‘donut’ charm of the Hirshhorn.
Hey - why don’t we make the Hirshhorn into an FBI museum, and stick all that modern art....somewhere else?
I hope it’s recovered. There’s one place that did a fabulous turkey sandwich. I always made a point of stopping by there for lunch when I went to DC.
El Paso has room.
Good thing Trump's back in the White House so the food court should be busy once again.
But I can imagine this time last year that it was literally a ghost town.
I wouldn’t trust a building once inhabited by CIA creatures. Turn it into The Museum of Failed Marxism and Triumph of Capitalism. New FBI office is in North Dakota, some sort of remote tent city. Senior FBI leadership must live and work from North Dakota headquarters.
Freegards
USAID is not dead...it’s been moved to another Department.
Should move them to Alligator Alcatraz.
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