According to a story broken by WIRED, employees at the General Services Administration (GSA) have been instructed to sell over 500 federal government buildings deemed to be “non-core assets.”
The GSA is an independent agency that acts as the federal government’s estate broker, managing federal property for its agencies, which was established in 1949.
Core assets, according to the report, include federal courthouses, border inspection stations, and law enforcement facilities.
Many of the buildings deemed “non-core” include government agency buildings and even the offices of US Senators. The only building listed in Nevada, before the list was taken off of the federal government’s public website, is the Carson City Federal Building listed at 705 N. Plaza Street.
The building was built in 1972 to house the U.S. Post Office that had been housed in the historic building that is now the Paul Laxalt State Building. When the new Post Office Building on Roop Street opened in 2001, the building was rebranded as the Carson City Federal Building.
Tenants of the building include:
According to Wired’s report, the GSA’s new goal is to reduce owned buildings by 70%, and reduce the size of the real estate footprint by 50%. The report states that the intention is to sell the buildings, and then lease buildings for displaced workers.
However, in a story published by the Associated Press in early February, Elon Musk — whose office is behind the directives — told the GSA to begin terminating leases on all of the 7,500 leased offices nationwide.
Other buildings on the list include Chicago’s famed John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, Boston’s John F. Kennedy Federal Building, Tennesee’s Ed Jones Federal Building, and more.
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