On Tuesday, the General Services Administration (GSA) published a list of more than 400 federal buildings and properties for sale, in particular the headquarters of the FBI, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, the Ministry of Justice and other key federal installations. A few hours later, 123 buildings, including high -level sites such as the J. Edgar Hoover building and the veterans administration in Washington, DC, were removed from the list. On Wednesday, the whole list had disappeared from the GSA website.
Wired has created a map and a table available to government properties that were for sale and briefly listed, which also includes corresponding political representatives for each location.
Willed cross, two data sets to create the map: the list of “non -core” properties originally published – then deleted – by GSA, and the inventory of properties owned and rented (IOLP). GSA defines non -essential properties such as buildings and installations that are not “at the heart of government operations” and in a press release on the list, said sales would provide “economies to the American taxpayer”. The IOLP, a database accessible to the public, offers detailed information on the properties belonging to GSA and rented across the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and the American Samoa.
Among those which are initially designated for sale are historically important properties such as the Ludwig Mies of Chicago, the federal building of John C. Kluczynski, and The Custom House, an Art Deco building, taking a pâté of houses in the old town of Philadelphia. The less important but still notable buildings include the Martinsburg Computing Center in Kearneysville, Virginie-Western, which shelters what IRS describes as its “basic database of taxing individual and corpory Central heating plant In Washington, DC, which provides heated and refrigerated water to government buildings, museums and national monuments. (The GSA has since affirmed that not all the buildings were for sale, but the agency has repeatedly changed its air through various internal documents and communications to staff members.)
GSA, an independent government agency, manages the government’s computers and a significant part of the federal real estate portfolio. In recent weeks, the agency has been decimated by forced resignations and forces reductions, in particular the elimination of 18F, a GSA unit focused on the effectiveness of the government. The GSA public buildings service (PBS) is would have Planning to reduce 63% of its workforce, or around 3,600 people in total. Elon Musk’s partners have GSA, including the director of Thomas Shedd technology, former Tesla engineer, and the staff member of X Nicole Hollander. A number of young DOGE technologists also have access to the agency.
Wired previously reported in February that GSA employees were invited to sell more than 500 federal buildings, including properties that house government agencies and offices of American senators. The list of these buildings has divided the “nucleus” and “non-nucleus” active properties and designated the assets “non-nursing” as if to be sold.
A note on the original list stipulates that the agency’s intention is ultimately to reduce the “size of the property imprint possessed and the number of buildings by 70% by 50%. Discounts will focus on the general office space not essential to the portfolio which can be replaced if necessary on the private private market. In the future, all non -essential buildings will be eliminated and their tenants will be transferred to leases. »»
