Patel and Bongino are players, addicted to their roles and scripts, pretending to be working feds.-J

https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/gsa-regions/region-11-national-capital/buildings-and-facilities/development-projects/fbi-headquarters-consolidation

The U.S. General Services Administration has selected 61 acres in Greenbelt, Maryland, as the site for the new home for the FBI headquarters campus.

GSA determined Greenbelt to be the best option for the FBI and the United States government because the site was the lowest cost to taxpayers, provided the greatest transportation access to FBI employees and visitors, and gave the government the most certainty on project delivery schedule. It also provided the highest potential to advance sustainability and equity.

The FBI currently occupies the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, and numerous other leased facilities that support its headquarters functions. The project involves exchanging JEH for a new facility in Greenbelt, Maryland that can accommodate the FBI’s headquarters operations and allow it to consolidate into one location.

In January 2013, GSA issued a Request for Information to garner reaction from members of the development community, local and state jurisdictions, and other interested parties regarding feasibility, issues, and considerations of such a transaction structure. The 38 responses to the RFI helped to inform GSA’s strategic planning for the project.

In November 2013, the RFI was followed by a Request for Expressions of Interest for sites within the National Capital Region to be used for the development of a new FBI headquarters. In addition to the sites submitted in response to the REOI, GSA also considered government-owned sites. From the REOI process, three acceptable sites were identified; one in Fairfax County, Virginia and two in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

On December 19, 2014, GSA issued a Phase I Request for Proposals (Phase I RFP) seeking an exchange partner to develop, design, construct, and deliver the new facility. The Phase I RFP process was used to select a short list of up to five qualified offerors to compete in the Phase II procurement.

In January 2016, GSA issued the Phase II Request for Proposals (Phase II RFP) to the shortlisted offerors, which detailed the requirements of the new facility and information on the three selected sites.

As part of the Fiscal Year 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Congress directed the GSA Administrator to select a site “as expeditiously as possible” from one of the three previously identified sites during project planning in 2016: Greenbelt, MD.; Landover, MD.; and Springfield, VA.

On September 22, 2022, GSA developed and publicly released a Site Selection Plan based on the agency’s best practices in site selection, which considered the following: FBI Proximity to Mission-Related Locations; Transportation Access; Site Development Flexibility and Schedule Risk; Promoting Sustainable Siting and Advancing Equity; and, Cost. The agency determined that Greenbelt was the most advantageous of the three sites after evaluating these factors.

On November 9, 2023, selected Greenbelt, Maryland, as the new site for the FBI HQ. Now that a site selection has been made, GSA will begin the acquisition process for the site and, as directed by Congress, begin development of a comprehensive project fact sheet (known as a prospectus) for submission to Congress.

In addition to the Greenbelt campus, and in accordance with the President’s Budget, parallel efforts are underway to identify a downtown Washington, DC, location that accommodates 750 to 1,000 FBI employees. This downtown location will allow for continued FBI accessibility to the Department of Justice and other key partners, as well as move the FBI out of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which is at the end of its useful life. -JP

PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT: FBI Director Kash Patel Announces He is Shutting Down the Infamous Agency’s Current Headquarters in DC (VIDEO)

by Cullen Linebarger May. 16, 2025 9:45

Credit: Fox Business Screenshot

FBI Director Kash Patel announced today that he will keep his big promise to shut down the agency’s current DC headquarters.

During a Friday morning interview on Fox Business with Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, Patel told host Maria Bartiromo that he has been making significant changes to the FBI’s business practices, beginning with a commonsense change that The Gateway Pundit previously wrote about.

“The FBI is 38,000 when we’re fully manned, which we’re not,” Patel explained. “In the national capital region…There were 11,000 FBI employees; that is a third of the workforce. So we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out.”

“Every state is getting a plus-up,” he added. “When we do things like that, we inspire people to become intel agents and say, ‘We want to work at the FBI.'”

“In the next three, six, nine months, we’re going to do that hard.”

Then he dropped a massive bombshell, which even Bongino was surprised by: The FBI will no longer use the Hoover building.

“This FBI is leaving the Hoover building because this building is unsafe for our workforce,” he announced.

This caused Bongino to laugh and quip, “You just gave up a big nugget, there.”

Patel then explained that he is also shutting down the current headquarters to send a message to future recruits.

“We want the American men and women to know that if you’re going to work at the premier law enforcement agency in the country, we’re going to give you a building that is commensurate with that.”

Patel previously promised to shut down the Hoover building and turn it into a museum to the Deep State.