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GSA Pauses Plans to Relocate FEMA, Other DHS Agencies
Plans to relocate the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s headquarters from leased space to a government-owned building near L’Enfant Plaza have been put on hold, the Washington Business Journal reported. The General Services Administration canceled a solicitation to design and build a $188.8-million renovation of the federal office building at 301 Seventh St. SW, which was slated to house FEMA and other Department of Homeland Security agencies.
The renovated space would have housed 4,374 DHS employees. FEMA officially announced its move to the building last December.
In canceling the solicitation, the GSA cited “current market conditions, and their anticipated impact on DHS’s housing strategy in the National Capital Region,” according to an email sent to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which has jurisdiction over federal leasing and construction projects.
FEMA is currently headquartered two blocks away at Federal Center Plaza, 500 and 400 C St. SW. Its lease at the building, owned by The Donohoe Cos. Inc., runs through 2027, and Donohoe’s Peter Happ told the Business Journal the agency is now likely to renew.
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