Overview
- Director Kash Patel announced a finalized plan to shutter the J. Edgar Hoover Building and relocate headquarters functions to the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.
- Patel said the bureau abandoned a nearly $5 billion new-campus proposal in favor of repurposing existing federal space.
- Safety and infrastructure upgrades at the Reagan site are underway, but no closure or move-in dates were disclosed.
- The GSA says the move will save taxpayers billions and avoid more than $300 million in deferred maintenance at the Hoover facility.
- Most headquarters personnel will move to the Reagan Building, with additional staff reassigned to field offices, as Maryland pursues a lawsuit over the canceled Greenbelt project and critics question the new site’s security suitability.