The General Services Administration (GSA) has published a list of more than 400 federal buildings and properties to be sold, including the FBI headquarters, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and other key federal facilities. However, hours later, 123 buildings were removed from the list, and by Wednesday, the entire list had disappeared from the GSA website.

WIRED has created a map and a searchable table of the government properties that were for sale and briefly listed, which also includes corresponding political representatives for each location. The list includes historically significant properties like Chicago's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed John C. Kluczynski Federal Building and the Custom House, an Art Deco building in Philadelphia's Old City.

Controversy and Chaos

The GSA's decision to sell these buildings has sparked controversy and chaos within the agency. Sources claim that the list was published and then removed due to negative press, and that there has been no national strategy on how the GSA is supposed to engage customer agencies on their occupancy agreements in these buildings.

Other sources have described a small group at the GSA, walled off from other employees, making decisions in tandem with DOGE, a company associated with Elon Musk. The GSA has not said why it published and then subsequently removed the list, but sources suggest that it may be due to the negative reaction from the public and the media.