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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^All of that is because GSA cannot adequately maintain federal buildings. The same would be true for a building built in KCMO. My division was in a federal building downtown and we couldn't get enough funding to fix a broken window that a tourist threw a rock through. There were roaches and sewage backups and the water wasn't potable. We moved to a leased building and there's a coffee pot in the breakroom even. It's night and day how nice our leased building is versus the one ran by GSA. [/quote]

Uh huh, and I'm betting that leased building is costing the federal government a $1M a month to rent for you. The 'solution' would be to re-build federal buildings from the ground up in new facilities either in-town or in local relocations like the FBI tried to do with PG County. But that would mean billions - costs to buy land or tear down entire city blocks of federal buildings, contractor costs and bids, regulations processing for new developments, temporary relocation of employees....

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I'm sure it is. That's part of my point. [b]If the government MAINTAINED the facilitates it already owns, it would be cheaper in the long run. [/b]You wouldn't believe how clean my new building is. We even have a janitor who picks up my trash daily. Before we were required to dump our own trash once a week. [/quote]

That is absolutely not the case. The oldest building in Washington, D.C. the government maintains is the freaking White House. They do it to optimal standards because its THE WHITE HOUSE.

Yet that same White House still has leaking water-logged basements, mold, termite damage and mice problems. There are some things you just can't get around dealing with in super-old buildings. Remediation on a regular basis is not only extraordinarily expensive but also often times ineffective unless you tear it down.

[img]https://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_full/public/whitehouseflooding_070819getty.jpg?itok=QIhFNbk6[/img][img]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QcYDZFP9IJ0/hqdefault.jpg[/img]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/451977-white-house-basement-floods-during-dc-rainstorm

“The rats have nearly taken the building so it has become necessary to get a man with ferrets. They [rats] have become so numerous and bold they get up on the table in the Upper Hall and one got up on Mr. Halford’s bed.”

https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/06/01/rats-in-the-white-house-pestering-tales-of-barbara-bush-in-the-pool-others/
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