The Department of Transportation’s headquarters campus in Washington spans two complexes covering 1.8 million square feet across 11-acre of prime DC real estate.
In the private sector, such a trophy office property would fetch north of $1 billion per year in rental income.
Yet for the federal government, two-thirds of the space sits empty according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government’s own inter…
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