IF I were President, I would be demanding that ALL EXCESS FEDERAL properties be sold & put into private hands or the individual states. Raw land or otherwise.
NO taxpayer money should be spent maintaining or insuring a building that isn’t in use.
How long did that post office building stand vacant?
Trump should be able to purchase it. Enough of the gnats called Democrats flying into his soup.
I certainly agree that vacant federal properties in the states (especially the vast holdings in the western states) should be liquidated ASAP.
Concerning Trump’s hotel. It is in DC...an area where I would expect the federal government to own property. And, it appears to be in a block that contains nothing but federal office buildings. I suspect that if this building had burned to the ground, the federal government would have built a new office building on it, rather than sell the ground - and I wouldn’t have a problem with that.
The long vacancy of the building likely had to do with the reluctance to tear down a historic building, coupled with a ‘can’t do’ attitude about renovating it for an office building. So the hotel idea is a pretty novel way to get the land utilized. I bristle a little at the thought of the federal government being a landlord...but I can see absolutely no circumstance in which this property would ever go into private hands.