President Obama has said that immigration reform is the most important domestic policy agenda of his second term, and hope springs that Congress will pass legislation acceptable to both parties. But in the meantime, it’s worthwhile to consider the offices that support immigration policies in place today. A key agency within the Department of Justice […]
On Friday, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director, Jeffrey Zients, issued a memorandum effectively freezing the federal inventory of leased space. The memorandum entitled “Promoting Efficient Spending to Support Agency Operations” addressed a wide…
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith (Wikimedia Commons) As a candidate for the presidency, Donald Trump famously pledged to “drain the swamp” by, among other things, reducing the size of the federal government. This would be accomplished in part by workforce attrition and in part by relocating federal employees from the nation’s capital. It’s this latter method […]
The J. Edgar Hoover Building is situated on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW between 9th and 10th Streets–very prime real estate (photo: Wikimedia Commons) As we reported back in January, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed a resolution on December 8, 2011, authorizing GSA to seek a location for a new consolidated FBI headquarters to replace the aging J. Edgar Hoover […]
Anyone involved with government contract administration can attest to the staggering number of online systems used by the government to support vendor-related functions, such as business registration, small business subcontracting, past performance and contracting opportunities. Simply keeping track of all the usernames, passwords and registration renewal dates is a test of organizational skills and discipline. […]
On February 8th, Congressman Lou Barletta introduced a new bill (H.R. 4487) known as the Public Buildings Reform and Savings Act of 2016. Some aspects of the legislation relate to the Federal Protective Service and economic development partnerships, but in this short summary we will only focus on the contents of the bill that could affect […]
Last week, (Monday, January 21) in his second inaugural address, President Obama highlighted the need to mitigate the growing impacts of climate change, saying “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing the failure…
Grand Junction, Colorado (photo: by Eleaf, CreativeCommons.org) In January 2018, then–Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced a sweeping program to reorganize the department, the largest such reorganization since its founding in 1849. Zinke’s plan involved dividing the United States into thirteen regions, each of which would host the principal offices of agencies such as […]
Anyone involved with government contract administration can attest to the staggering number of online systems used by the government to support vendor-related functions, such as business registration, small business subcontracting, past performance and contracting opportunities. Simply…
Photo: Press TV (www.presstv.ir) The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is accelerating its plans to consolidate mail processing plants, adding dozens of those originally scheduled to be closed in 2014 to the list of facilities already set to be shuttered this year. It made the announcement in a letter it sent last Thursday (March 28) to […]
On June 27th, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee considered and ordered to be reported H.R. 6194, the Real Estate Assets and Leasing (REAL) Reform Act of 2018. The bill is a mostly recycled grab-bag of initiatives aimed at real property reform. If signed into law, some of these changes will be welcomed by government lessors […]
7th Floor Renovated Work Area at GSA Headquarters (Photo: GSA) As we’ve already reported, GSA’s Public Building Service has a long-term goal of improving the way federal agencies use space and downsizing the federal office space footprint. GSA is leading the way in its own Washington, D.C., headquarters, where it is reshaping traditional office floorplans […]
Colliers recently released its U.S. 2021 Investor Sentiment Survey Results, an annual look at the mood of the investor community at the start of the New Year. Not surprisingly, more than half of all investors surveyed stated that they will be looking to invest in industrial properties in 2021 and only 18% expressed interest in […]
Sequestration—originally a legal term referring to an agent of the court taking valuable property into custody to prevent it from being disposed of or abused before a dispute over its ownership can be resolved—has been adapted by Congress in more recent years to describe a new fiscal policy procedure first provided for by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings […]
