The US General Services Administration announced Tuesday that it will seek to rid the nation of 443 federal buildings and facilities it deemed as “functionally obsolete” for the US government. Forty-one of these properties were in the District of Columbia, but they vanished from GSA’s list Tuesday evening. A GSA spokesperson has not yet replied to Washingtonian‘s requests for comment as to what happened. In a press release that accompanied the original list, GSA said these “non-core” properties are mainly office spaces that the federal workforce can no longer properly use because of “decades of funding deficiencies.”
Many local and national landmarks in the District were on the list, including the Department of Agriculture’s South Building, the James V. Forrestal Building that houses the Department of Energy, the Hubert H. Humphrey Building that houses the Department of Health and Human Services, the Frances Perkins Building that houses the Department of Labor, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the GSA’s own headquarters, and the Old Post Office Building, which used to house the Trump International Hotel. There were also oddities, like the obsolete steam tunnels that once delivered heat to some buildings.
The GSA can dispose of a property by transferring it to another federal agency, turning it into space for homeless assistance programs, negotiating a sale to a state or local government, or selling it at full market value. This announcement comes under the purview of the agency’s acting administrator, the software entrepreneur Stephen Ehikian, who in January said the agency will now be “laser focused on driving an efficient government.”
Here’s the GSA’s list of the non-core properties in DC that it had designated for disposal:
- 2430 E ST NW CENTRAL
- 2430 E ST NW EAST
- 2430 E ST NW SOUTH
- 320 FIRST STREET NW
- AGRI SOUTH
- AMERICAN RED CROSS BUILDING
- AMERICAN RED-CROSS LAND
- CENTRAL HTG PLNT A/C
- CENTRAL HTG PLNT STM
- COLUMBIA PLAZA – 2401 E ST
- COURT OF MIL APP
- DIPLOMACY MUSEUM
- FEDERAL TRADE
- FORRESTAL
- FORRESTAL DAYCARE
- FRANCES PERKINS BLDG
- GSA
- HUBERT HUMPHREY BLDG
- J EDGAR HOOVER BLDG
- JAMES L. WHITTEN FB
- JUDICIARY SQUARE
- LAFAYETTE
- MARY E. SWITZER BUILDING
- ORVILLE WRIGHT
- POST OFFICE OLD
- POT ANX 1
- POT ANX 2
- POT ANX 3
- POT ANX 4
- POT ANX 5
- POT ANX PWR HSE
- REMOTE DELIVERY SITE
- ROBERT C. WEAVER BUILDING
- ROBERT F. KENNEDY BLDG
- SOUTH EAST FED CTR
- STEAM DISTRI TUNNELS
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT
- US INTERNATIONAL TR
- VETERANS ADMIN
- WILBUR J COHEN BLDG
- WILBUR WRIGHT
This post was updated after GSA removed the DC-area properties from its list of assets.
