Patel Finalizes the Location of New FBI HQ, Permanent Closure of Hoover Building – RedState
FBI Director Kash Patel spoke to X on Friday to announce the official closure of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI headquarters building. Patel first made the announcement in May during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. Since Congress holds the power to decide the fate of federal buildings, Patel has opened the appropriate channels to finally execute his plan.
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December 26: Hoover building closed.
After more than 20 years of failed attempts, we have finalized a plan to permanently close FBI Hoover Headquarters and move staff to a secure, modern facility. Working directly with President Trump and Congress, we…
– FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 26, 2025
December 26: Hoover building closed.After more than 20 years of failed attempts, we have finalized a plan to permanently close FBI Hoover Headquarters and move staff to a secure, modern facility. By working directly with President Trump and Congress, we accomplished what no one else could.
When we arrived, taxpayers were about to pay nearly $5 billion for a new headquarters that wouldn’t open until 2035. We abandoned that project. Instead, we chose the already existing Reagan Building, saving billions and allowing the transition to begin immediately with required security and infrastructure upgrades already underway. Once completed, most of the FBI Headquarters workforce will settle in, and the remainder will continue our ongoing efforts to place more personnel in the field, where they will remain.
This decision puts resources where they need to be: defending the homeland, crushing violent crime, and protecting national security. It provides better tools for current FBI personnel, at a fraction of the cost.
The Hoover Building will be permanently closed.
The Hoover Building has been a complete waste of money since its inception. Original construction was to take place in 1963 at an estimated cost of $60 million. Construction was not completed until more than 10 years later, at a cost of $126 million. Closing this headquarters fulfills Patel’s promise of a new FBI that would be transparent, accountable and focused on allowing cops to be cops. With a more streamlined workforce in DC, this means that in addition to agents returning to the field, state and regional headquarters will now have a more fully staffed workforce. The benefits of this measure have become evident with drug trafficking arrests, narcotics seizures and the foiling of mass-casualty terrorist plots in Michigan and California.
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My colleague Streiff wrote after Patel was confirmed as FBI director.
During his confirmation hearing, he reiterated his goal of moving agents and analysts out of Washington and into the field offices.
During his confirmation hearing last month, Patel was asked about his previous comments suggesting he wanted FBI headquarters emptied and closed. His answers do not directly address whether he would actually close the building or seek to turn it into a museum, but suggest that he believes FBI personnel in Washington should visit the country.
“A third of the FBI’s workforce works in Washington, D.C.,” Patel said. “I am fully committed to having this workforce go inland, where I live west of the Mississippi, and work with local sheriff’s departments and officers.”
Some of these agents are on temporary duty in Washington DC and will return to their headquarters. You can also bet that a sizable number of those who were kicked out of the building will retire rather than move.
Good riddance. In May, Patel also announced plans to increase staff at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. During a Senate oversight hearing, Patel pledged to Alabama Sen. Katie Britt (R) that these plans were already being implemented.
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THANKS, @FBIDirectorKashfor your strong commitment to the FBI Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. pic.twitter.com/bO9OZECDxg
– Senator Katie Boyd Britt (@SenKatieBritt) May 8, 2025
In mid-December, Kevin Jones, FBI deputy assistant director for IT infrastructure, briefed elected leaders and staff at Redstone Arsenal. Jones said 2,200 FBI members are already stationed at the facility — 500 of them are agents who were transferred from Washington to the South. The FBI plans to increase that number to 4,000 by 2030.
Jones said the Huntsville facility would create one of the largest concentrated footprints of any FBI division in the United States. The staff will work at the Richard Shelby Center for Innovation and Advanced Technology, the new name for the FBI’s official campus at Redstone Arsenal.
Workers will initially be stationed at the North Campus FBI building. This building houses the FBI’s technological, cyber, analytical and educational environments.
These actions represent the office’s return to enforcing laws, fighting crime and making communities across the country safer. Hopefully, under Patel’s continued leadership of the FBI, we will see a very different agency in the years to come.
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