Trump wants to offload hundreds of government buildings. These in DFW are on the list
The Trump administration may sell several federal properties in Fort Worth and Dallas as a part of its attempt to slash federal spending.
The administration said March 4 that it could offload hundreds of government buildings and office spaces across the country, with the stated goal of ensuring “that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces.”
The latest available list of properties identified for “disposal,” published on the U.S. General Services Administration’s website early Wednesday, includes four office buildings and one parking garage in the Metroplex:
▪ The Fritz G. Lanham Federal Building, 819 Taylor St., Fort Worth, houses regional offices for at least a dozen federal departments and agencies, including the Department of Justice, the Department of Agriculture, the Federal Transit Administration, the Defense Contract Management Agency, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Social Security Administration. First opened in 1966, the 14-floor Lanham complex covers almost 700,000 square feet of land in the heart of downtown, a short walk from the convention center, old city hall, and Sundance Square. (The Tarrant Appraisal District pegs the site’s gross building area at 1.3 million square feet.) The GSA’s roster of target properties also lists a “Fort Worth Federal Parking Garage” spanning 8,341 square feet, but the agency provides no address.
▪ The GSA describes the Terminal Annex Federal Building, 207 S. Houston St. in Dallas, as an “important visual anchor” for Dealey Plaza, the site of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination; Lee Harvey Oswald purportedly rented space in the structure just weeks before killing Kennedy, according to the GSA’s website. The structure, built in 1937, now contains offices for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Dallas Military Entrance Processing Station and the Dallas district office for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision, among other federal bodies.
▪ The Santa Fe Federal Building, built at 1114 Commerce Street in downtown Dallas in 1925, soars almost 21 floors, according to the GSA’s website. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1997, the structure today houses offices for the State Department, Department of Homeland Security and other federal bodies.
▪ Located several blocks away from the Terminal Annex, the A. Maceo Smith Federal Building, at 525 S Griffin St., in Dallas, hosts regional offices for the USDA, the Department of Labor, and other government bodies.
The GSA has since removed the list of properties it had singled out for sale from its website; as of Wednesday afternoon, the agency’s web page states that another “non-core property list” is “coming soon.”
The agency press office did not comment on why it had withdrawn the list, nor did it clarify how it deemed a building to be “not core to government operations.”
“We anticipate the list will be republished in the near future after we evaluate this initial input and determine how we can make it easier for stakeholders to understand the nuances of the assets listed,” a GSA spokesperson wrote to the Star-Telegram.
It is also unclear what will happen to the federal employees currently working in these spaces, or how much the Trump administration expects to save from selling them. The GSA owns and leases 8,397 buildings nationwide, according to the agency’s website.
“To be clear, just because an asset is on the list doesn’t mean it’s immediately for sale,” a spokesperson wrote to the Star-Telegram. “However, we will consider compelling offers (in accordance with applicable laws and regulations) and do what’s best for the needs of the federal government and taxpayer.”
This story was originally published March 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM.
