According to Moody’s Investors Service, last week’s election has not changed the “highly polarized and unpredictable” political landscape that still threatens the nation’s credit rating. In an analysis released today and outlined in a set of research notes yesterday, the ratings agency described how the presidential election and the prospect of a continuing standoff on […]
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 […]
The GSA reinforced its role as a key partner in achieving President Obama’s greenhouse gas and energy efficiency goals in an announcement on June 11 in Lanham, Maryland. Agency Administrator Dan Tangherlini revealed a major Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) to install energy-saving retrofits and renewable energy sources at the IRS New Carrollton Financial Service […]
Rep. John Mica wants to move the FTC into available office space at Constitution Center (pictured above) House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica’s (R-Fla.) plan to transfer the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) headquarters building to the National Gallery of Art (NGA) suffered a blow this week, when GSA Acting Administrator Dan Tangherlini sent […]
The historic Apex Building is the object of the power struggle between Rep. Mica and the FTC Since 2005, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) has been attempting to transfer the historic Apex Building from the FTC—which has been headquartered there since the building opened in 1938 —to the National Gallery of Art […]
Which federal agency’s headquarters is housed in a structure whose cornerstone was laid with the same silver trowel that President George Washington used to lay the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol in 1793? Since 1938, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been headquartered in the Apex Building—so named because it sits at the apex of […]
“Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you.” Once you get a song in your head it’s hard to get it back out. These Stealers Wheel lyrics certainly resonated when listening to the opening of today’s congressional mark-up hearing. Of course, we don’t really regard […]
“Man Controlling Trade” sculpture outside FTC headquarters building Two Art Deco sculptures adorn the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) headquarters at Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues, depicting muscular men wrestling rebellious stallions and symbolizing government’s role in controlling trade. But a contentious hearing on December 3rd of the House Subcommittee on Government Operations suggests another interpretation: the […]
Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building (photo: Bryant D., Foursquare) The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building is a seven-story, 617,600-square-foot structure in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, near the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport. Designed by Cerny Associates in the austere modernist style popular in the 1960s and completed in 1969, until last summer it housed some 1,100 federal […]
From left to right: Constitution Center, the Old Post Office, 601 New Jersey and 1800 M Street (renovation rendering) GSA now has a plan to lease all of the remaining 358,000 square feet of space at Constitution Center and distribute it among the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National […]
Since 2003, the General Services Administration (GSA) has required basic LEED certification for all federal buildings, and it upped the ante in 2010 by requiring LEED-Gold. But every five years, thanks to the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the GSA must review green building certification systems, then report its findings to the Secretary […]
“Before” and “After” Photos of the Edith Green-Wendall Wyatt Building Renovation. On May 30, Portland, Oregon, celebrated the completion of a $139 million renovation of the 18-story Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building (EGWW). First opened in 1975, the boxy, concrete-and-steel high rise, aging home to the IRS, FBI, BLM, and other agencies, was transformed over […]
Photo: GSA Blogs More than six years after ground was broken—and after a nearly two-year construction stoppage—the federal government officially opened the new NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction at the University of Maryland’s M Square Research and Technology Park last week (October 15). The 268,762-square-foot, four-story building is now home to more than […]
A Notice of Availability was issued this month for the Point Fermin lighthouse, San Pedro, CA (photo: Point Fermin Lighthouse Society) “I want to marry a lighthouse keeper And keep him company I want to marry a lighthouse keeper And live by the side of the sea…” For more than a decade, ever since the […]
