Senator Mikulski Scores $255 Million for FBI Headquarters in PG County

UPPER MARLBORO, MD — Prince George's County is working hard to beat our Springfield, Va. as the new home of the headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and they got some help from Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who secured $255 million in federal funding through a continuing resolution spending bill.

Two sites in PG County -- Greenbelt and Landover -- are competing with the Springfield location to land the new FBI headquarters, which are currently located in downtown D.C. The site would host 11,000 employees.

PG County Executive Rushern Baker thanked Mikulski for her help in a recent statement.

“I want to express my sincerest appreciation to and utmost respect for Senator Barbara Mikulski for her relentless determination to secure full funding for a consolidated FBI headquarters," Baker said. "Together with the House of Representative’s action earlier this week in approving additional parameters for the GSA to use in determining where the project will be housed, I am even more hopeful that the additional funding Senator Mikulski secured brings the project one more step closer to a new home in Prince George’s County."

Mikulski had already secured $390 million in the fiscal 2016 budget, and that money along with the sale of the J. Edgar Hoover Building would fund half the total project, Baker says.

About half of FBI headquarters employees are housed in the Hoover building, in addition to multiple FBI divisions throughout the region. All of those would be consolidated into one location at the new headquarters.

The biggest change for the FBI came after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when the agency -- like many others -- brought on a lot more employees. GSA first issued a request for information for a new site back in December 2012, and narrowed it down to three sites in July 2014.

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