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Fairfax County has already put in a good word for it, and now Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker has said that he wants a new FBI headquarters to relocate to his neck of the woods, reports WTOP:
“We think that Prince George’s County makes all the sense. We have three sites that are great,” says Baker. “A lot of folks who work for federal agencies live in Prince George’s County.”
Baker thinks Greenbelt, Largo and Branch Avenue particularly would be ideal locations for the headquarters within the county.
“We think the Greenbelt site has the post potential, so we’re pushing very hard,” says Baker.
The feds have already agreed that the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue is “functionally obsolete,” and they’d like to centralize the existing 22 FBI offices in the region in one new location. (It was also recently declared the world’s ugliest building.)
No matter where it moves, though, it’ll be a while before the Brutalist structure in downtown D.C. is made available for other uses—a new FBI HQ won’t likely be ready until 2020.
Martin Austermuhle