The Reagan building—actually a complex of buildings—currently houses employees of several agencies, most notably the CBP. Image: JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffHouse and Senate members from Virginia have pressed the GSA for information regarding the planning and impact of the planned move of HUD headquarters from downtown Washington to the Virginia suburbs, saying the move “should not come at the expense” of employees in NSF headquarters who would be bumped out of their headquarters building.
The letter came as GSA announced a second major move, of the FBI headquarters, although only to the Ronald Reagan building just several blocks from its current location.
“Given HUD’s sudden announcement that it will be moving into the building, roughly 1,800 NSF employees – many of whom are Virginia residents – are now displaced with no information regarding the future of their work,” said a letter from Virginia’s two senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, and Rep. Don Beyer who represents the Alexandria suburb that would receive the employees, all Democrats.
The process used to decide to move out of HUD’s longtime headquarters could be a preview of how GSA and tenant agencies will handle future moves that the administration plans. The letter says, though, that the decision “seems to have been made without meaningful consultation of all impacted stakeholders and shows a lack of regard for NSF, its mission, and its workforce.”
While Virginia can accommodate the 2,700 HUD employees who would be moved there, they wrote, the “NSF employees – many of whom are Virginia residents – are now displaced with no information regarding the future of their work.”
They asked for information including how the GSA concluded that the NSF space was under used; consultations with NSF before the announcement; whether assessments were done of how the moves could affect the workforces of the two agencies and their programs; the estimated cost; what modifications will be needed to the building, which was custom-designed for NSF when it moved in; and plans for the displaced NSF employees, including when they would have to move out, and to where.
The announcement regarding the FBI headquarters meanwhile follows many years of consideration over relocating those employees; that had resulted in a 2023 decision by the GSA to move them to a site in suburban Maryland, although as far off as 10 years since it required construction of a new building.
The Reagan building—actually a complex of buildings—currently houses employees of several agencies, most notably the CBP. As with the HUD move, the impact on those already working there, and the timing, has not been made clear. Also as with the HUD move, the GSA cited the impact of years of deferred maintenance at the FBI’s Hoover Building as a reason to move out, including “aging water system to concrete falling off the structure”—in turn raising similar questions of how much a sale would bring.
The planned FBI move similarly faces potential opposition from Congress—in this case from those representing Maryland, which would stand to lose the financial benefits of a new building and the presence of employees moving there.
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