Overview
- The Hoover Building will be shut down permanently, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on December 26.
- The Ronald Reagan Building in Washington was selected as the new headquarters, with safety and infrastructure upgrades already underway.
- After upgrades, most headquarters staff will relocate to the Reagan complex, while others continue moving to field offices following the earlier reassignment of about 1,500 D.C. employees.
- Patel said the decision was coordinated with President Trump and Congress and replaces a plan estimated at nearly $5 billion with an opening projected as late as 2035.
- The FBI and GSA said repurposing the federal property advances real-estate optimization and avoids billions in new construction plus roughly $300 million in deferred maintenance at the Hoover site.