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  • Rosa Parks’ name to grace larger federal building in Detroit

    | GSA Blog Team
    Rosa Parks’ name to grace larger federal building in Detroit
  • Pushing forward with green initiatives

    | GSA Blog Team
    Reducing waste – whether it be spatial, financial or environmental – across the federal government was a top priority for the agency in 2023 and will continue to be so in the new year. 
  • GSA saves taxpayers billions of dollars in 2023: Faster, better, cheaper

    | GSA Blog Team
    GSA continued to shrink federal government expenses in 2023 – from selling historic lighthouses to using cheap and sustainable grass-eating goats to discovering ways to shave nearly 3.5 million square
  • Increasing women’s presence in federal buildings and art

    | GSA Blog Team
    GSA has celebrated women’s contributions throughout Women’s History Month every year in March. On March 8, GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan opened the month, recognizing that nearly half of the approx…
  • Virtual inspections provide a remote eye on key work during pandemic

    | GSA Blog Team
    Every day, GSA employees bring construction projects to life, supporting the building and maintenance of courthouses, land ports of entry and other federal facilities. Much of this work is onsite, wor…
  • GSA, partners open co-located space for GEOINT work

    | Alison Kohler
    What is a federal agency to do when their new facility has to be designed and built over several years — but they need the right space in the right place to do their important work now? Call GSA, of c…
  • Celebrating Women’s History Month: Our buildings

    | GSA Blog Team

    In celebration of Women’s History Month, GSA is highlighting federal buildings in our inventory named after famous women, and some of the history behind each of them.

  • Women of Justice: Diana E. Murphy

    | Christi Chidester Votisek
    Did you know that out of more than 165 named U.S. Courthouses across the country, there are only four that bear the name of a woman? In honor of Women’s History Month, take a moment to learn more abou…
  • Women of Justice: Judith N. Keep

    | Christi Chidester Votisek
    Did you know that out of more than 165 named U.S. Courthouses across the country, there are only four that bear the name of a woman? In honor of Women’s History Month, take a moment to learn more abou…
  • Women of Justice: Sandra Day O'Connor

    | GSA Blog Team
    Sandra Day O’Connor took her oath of office as the first woman Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court on September 25, 1981. Born in El Paso, Texas, on March 26, 1930, her early years we…