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Jul 11, 2017

Feds Cancel Five-Year Search For New FBI Headquarters

The project was too underfunded to move forward, the GSA said today.

Apr 21, 2016

Got Ideas For What To Do With The ‘Functionally Obsolete’ J. Edgar Hoover Building?

One senator says that Hoover’s name shouldn’t follow the headquarters to the ‘burbs.

Dec 03, 2012

Feds Want to Move FBI Out of Brutalist Downtown HQ

Developers, prepare your bids: the feds want the FBI out of its brutalist headquarters along Pennsylvania Avenue, opening up a huge development opportunity.

May 07, 2012

Brutal: J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building Declared World’s Ugliest Building Worth Visiting

We know the FBI’s downtown headquarters is an eye sore, but is it the world’s worst eye sore? Apparently so.

Nov 09, 2011

Feds Agree: The FBI Building Is Awful

Housing Complex reported this morning on a study from the federal government that concluded what pretty much every District resident and visitor has long known: the FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue is ugly and useless at effectively housing the agency.

 
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