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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really dont understand why people on this thread think building out work space is hard.

My old company we decided to bring our call center in house. The guy in charge with Facilities guy literally drove to a few places, got some quotes. I was on approval team.

He showed us, we approved, he pretty much had 30 cubes up and running in two weeks. You do realized those seats people sat pre-covid are still there? My old firm gave up a floor and guess what it is still empty. They could just release it.

My old town in 1990s had a shortage of office buildings. Macys bought A&S dept store from Bankruptcy and lease on the A&S just stopped near my house. Macy's did not want it as a store already close by. They converted converted it to an office building in a few weeks.  All finished space with bathrooms, was a back office so mainly cubes.

Companies are now in the cloud so no need data centers. Companies got rid of gyms and cafeterias. It is just wif and cubes and desks.   [/quote]

hi J1 J2 J3 guy, how many jobs you working now? moved into gov contracting construction?

anyway, it's super easy in a private company to just yolo some office space together with a credit card and some skunkworks. But there are a whole bunch of actual laws around procurement and spending and contracting for federal agencies, and it turns out just yolo-ing it runs afoul of a lot of those laws. ALSO, a lot of the landlords with empty space in DC have the problem that they are nearly bankrupt and can't actually afford to pay the agents that hold the listings even if someone like the federal gov shows up with a pen to sign a lease, nor can they afford to pay to bring the spaces up to compliance with whatever will be put there. Will the federal gov decide to foot those bills (completely upfront) too? Could be a huge windfall for the leasing agents and the landlords, but it definitely wouldn't be legal.
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