Here's a Map of the For-Sale Government Properties the GSA Pulled From Its Website

On Tuesday, the General Services Administration (GSA) published a database of much than 400 national buildings and properties to beryllium sold, including the FBI headquarters, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Justice, and different cardinal national facilities. Hours later, 123 buildings, including high-profile sites similar the J. Edgar Hoover Building and Veterans Administration buildings successful Washington, DC, were removed from the list. By Wednesday, the full database had disappeared from the GSA website.

WIRED has created a representation and a searchable array of the authorities properties that were for merchantability and concisely listed, which besides includes corresponding governmental representatives for each location.

WIRED cross-referenced 2 datasets to make the map: the database of “non-core” properties primitively published—and past removed—by the GSA, and the Inventory of Owned and Leased Properties (IOLP). The GSA defines non-core properties arsenic buildings and facilities that are “not halfway to authorities operations,” and successful a property merchandise astir the list, argued that income would supply "savings to the American taxpayer." The IOLP, a publically accessible database, offers elaborate accusation connected GSA-owned and leased properties crossed the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa.

Among those primitively denoted arsenic for merchantability are historically important properties similar Chicago’s Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, and the Custom House, an Art Deco gathering taking up a metropolis artifact successful Philadelphia’s Old City. Less salient but inactive notable buildings see the Martinsburg Computing Center successful Kearneysville, West Virginia, which houses what the IRS describes arsenic its “individual and firm taxation medication maestro record information base,” and the Central Heating Plant successful Washington, DC, which provides heated and chilled h2o to authorities buildings, museums, and nationalist monuments. (The GSA has since claimed that not each buildings are for sale, but the bureau has repeatedly changed its tune passim antithetic interior documents and communications to staffers.)

The GSA, an autarkic authorities agency, manages authorities IT and a important information of the national existent property portfolio. In caller weeks, the bureau has been decimated by forced resignations and reductions successful forces, including the elimination of 18F, a GSA portion focused connected authorities efficiency. GSA’s Public Buildings Service (PBS) is reportedly readying to chopped 63 percent of its workforce, astir 3600 radical successful total. Elon Musk’s associates are staffed passim GSA, including Technology Transformation Services manager Thomas Shedd, a erstwhile Tesla engineer, and X staffer Nicole Hollander. A fig of young DOGE technologists besides person entree to the agency.

WIRED antecedently reported successful February that employees astatine the GSA were told to merchantability disconnected much than 500 national buildings, including properties that location authorities agencies and the offices of US senators. The database of these buildings divided the properties into “core” and “non-core” assets, and designated the “non-core” assets arsenic to beryllium sold.

A enactment connected the archetypal database states that the agency’s volition is yet to trim the “size of the owned existent property footprint by 50 percent and the fig of buildings by 70 percent. Reductions volition beryllium focused connected the non-core wide bureau abstraction of the portfolio which tin beryllium replaced arsenic needed successful the backstage leased market. Moving forward, each non-core buildings volition beryllium disposed of and their tenants volition beryllium transitioned into leases.”