Prince George’s County officials will continue to push the federal government to bring the FBI to their suburban Maryland jurisdiction, even after the federal government’s surprise recommendation to build the agency a new home on the site of its current downtown D.C. headquarters.
David Iannucci, a top economic development official for Prince George’s, said there’s still a significant gap between the amount of space the federal government occupies in Prince George’s and what it has in neighboring jurisdictions. While there’s no indication the General Services Administration deliberately slighted the county with Monday’s FBI announcement, Iannucci said moving the agency and its nearly 11,000 headquarters staff to Prince George’s would have gone a long way to bridging the gap.
“It is a significant and painful lost opportunity for the GSA to address what remains an unequal and unjustifiable failure to address leasing disparities that have occurred over generations,” Iannucci said. “It’s not going to stop, we’re going to continue to press the issue.”