The Daily Populous Saturday December 27th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by fox5dc.com and submitted by southernemper0r

The Brief The FBI is permanently closing the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The building has been the FBI headquarters since 1975. The FBI will move to the Reagan Building.

The FBI is permanently closing its headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, Director Kash Patel announced on Friday.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the move on social media Friday. According to Patel, the move is an effort to move the bureau into a safer, more modern facility.

"When we arrived, taxpayers were about to be on the hook for nearly $5 billion for a new headquarters that wouldn't open until 2035," Patel said. "We scrapped that plan."

The Hoover Building has been the FBI's headquarters since 1975. The building was first opened a year earlier. Prior to the Hoover building, the FBI's main offices were located in the Department of Justice building.

The J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, July 21, 2025. The federal government workforce in and around the nation's capital has shrunk by about 22,100 in the year through May, a new report s Expand

According to Patel, the FBI will be moving its headquarters to the nearby Reagan Building. That building, Patel said, also needs some safety and infrastructure upgrades, but the FBI will move in once those upgrades are completed.

While most of the FBI headquarters staff will move to the new building, Patel said that several others will be reassigned to the field.

Patel did not give any timeline for those upgrades, or for when the Hoover building will be permanently closed.

TheBalzy on December 27th, 2025 at 00:24 UTC »

So a "cost saving" move, is to move the FBI out of a building specifically built and designed for the FBI, to a building NOT designed and built by the FBI, and that's supposed to save money? ... It's supposed to SAVE money...

Enoch-Of-Nod on December 27th, 2025 at 00:18 UTC »

New HQ to be located at a bathroom in maralago.

VelvetVoltage- on December 27th, 2025 at 00:18 UTC »

It's hard to overstate the symbolism of this. The Hoover Building was the FBI's public face for generations. Closing it isn't just a real estate move it feels like a definitive, physical end to an era. A massive change for the agents and the public's image of the Bureau.