Virginia and Maryland are ramping up to fight over a development project that would be an economic boon to the state that lands it: the new headquarters of the FBI.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has outgrown its home of four decades, the J. Edgar Hoover Building along Pennsylvania Avenue in the District. Renovating the Hoover building would take 14 years and cost nearly $2 billion, government estimates show. So the FBI is shopping for a site in the D.C. suburbs for a 2-million-square-foot facility that would allow the agency to consolidate all of its Washington-area operations under one roof.
And with the promise of nearly 12,000 new jobs and a share of the agency's $8 billion annual budget, officials in Maryland and Virginia said they intend to fight hard for the project.
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5 comments:
why don't they just reduce the F.B.I.?
618-You're silly. The government never reduces anything...except the scratch in your pocket ;)
Well i guess we will see just how far O'Malleys nose is up Obamas butt now!
It won't be allowed on the shore, the local folks will complain about more traffic and noise and gunfire so they will move elsewhere and take the jobs with them that could have been here!
618-You're silly. The government never reduces anything...except the scratch in your pocket ;)
December 4, 2012 7:56 AM
I know but it was a thought. ;)
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