Maryland hopes revived for landing FBI headquarters

The final selection process for a new location for the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is back on track after years of delays. The FBI headquarters has been in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in the nation’s capital since 1974, but the building is deteriorating. Trippy.com in 2012 named the agency’s home the world’s “ugliest” building and in 2005 architect Arthur Cotton Moore said the building “creates a void along Pennsylvania Avenue.” Talks between the FBI and the General Services Administration began on a new site for the headquarters during the Bush administration.