WASHINGTON —The final decision on the location of the new FBI headquarters is expected to be announced in December, and Maryland state and local officials are optimistic their state will get the nod.
Two of the three possible sites are Greenbelt and Landover in Maryland. The other is Springfield, Virginia.
The FBI headquarters, currently located in the hulking J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, houses about 5,000 employees. The Hoover Building was built in 1975, but after 40 years, the General Services Administration has determined the structure no longer meets the FBI’s needs.
The Hoover building houses only slightly more than half of the FBI headquarters’ employees, and there are multiple FBI divisions scattered throughout the Washington metropolitan area that will be consolidated in one location when a new headquarters is built.