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[quote=Anonymous]Well whatever the decision, it needs to be done quickly.  The current headquarter is a disaster waiting to happen.

[url]https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2023/12/as-plans-for-a-new-fbi-hq-chug-along-the-old-building-falls-apart/[/url]
[quote]Congress is scrutinizing plans for a new FBI headquarters while the current HQ is falling apart. The FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover building is showing its age, as it sports nets around its perimeter keep chunks of concrete from falling off and hitting pedestrians. But parts of the building are also dropping onto employee workspaces and equipment. Nick Dimos, assistant director of the FBI’s Finance and Facilities Division, said the agency has spent $75 million since 2011 to avoid a “catastrophic” breakdown of its water systems. "Pipe bursts and plumbing challenges are commonplace, leading to the damage of FBI space, IT and records,” he said.[/quote]

They need netting to avoid chunks of the building falling off and hitting pedestrians (a federal lawsuit waiting to kick the government for a lot of money), they have parts of the building falling onto employee workspaces (a potential OSHA lawsuit waiting to cost the government lots of money), damaged to equipment from building collapse and water pipe bursts.  And if parts of the building are falling on employee workspaces, what's to say that a section of floor under a cubicle farm doesn't collapse onto the floor below, causing more than just a few injuries or deaths?  This is a deathtrap and they need to move.

This is one of the major reasons Albert overrode the panel recommendation.  She said explicitly that the Metro site was shovel ready and could be developed on a faster time frame than Springfield.[/quote]

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