On July 30th the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hosted a subcommittee hearing entitled: “GSA Tenant Agencies: Challenges and Opportunities in Reducing Costs of Leased Space”. The assembled witnesses included Norman Dong, the Commissioner of GSA’s…
Tag: GSA leases
Greetings From Kansas City
The Colliers Government Solutions team represents owners of government-leased properties nationally. So, we travel a lot. This slideshow profiles my trip earlier this year to Kansas City–both Missouri and Kansas. Yes, there is snow on the…
Social Security Office Closings Under Scrutiny
From Quincy, Florida, to Ketchikan, Alaska, field offices of the Social Security Administration (SSA) are being shuttered. Since 2010, 64 field offices have closed around the country, the largest number in the agency’s 79-year history. In…
Energy Savings Performance Contracts Leverage Scarce Federal Dollars
The GSA reinforced its role as a key partner in achieving President Obama’s greenhouse gas and energy efficiency goals in an announcement on June 11 in Lanham, Maryland. Agency Administrator Dan Tangherlini revealed a major Energy…
AAAP Program Expanded Even Further (It’s Time to Get on Board!)
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), which leases office space on behalf of most federal agencies, has begun using a streamlined lease acquisition program in several markets across the nation and will continue to expand into…
Spotlight: TSA
Traveling as much as we do to represent national owners of government-leased properties, it’s inevitable that one of the federal agencies we encounter most is the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The agency’s current procurement for a long term lease…
GSA-Leased Properties: Why Invest?
Experienced GSA-leased property investors are quite familiar with the advantages and challenges associated with ownership of property leased to the GSA. However, new entrants to the investment sales market for single-tenant GSA-leased property often ask why…
Spotlight: VHA
Among the revelations in the unfolding scandal over U.S. veterans’ health care is the sprawling size of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). A vast component of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the VHA runs the…
Spotlight: FCC
Protestors gathered on May 15 in front of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) D.C. headquarters, hoisting banners demanding the commissioners “Save the Internet.” But the vote that day advanced a proposal fiercely opposed by many consumers…
Federal Trends in Northern Virginia
This is a reprint of an article written for Northern Virginia NAIOP in April. To view it as it appeared in print, click here. Northern Virginia houses to the second greatest concentration of federal government agencies…