DOGE Target Hits the Market in Fort Worth

The U.S. General Services Administration moved 127 properties off their books since January 2025, and that’s set to now include the Lanham Federal Building in Fort Worth. 

The federal agency listed the nearly 700,000-square-foot building for sale on Thursday, according to the Dallas Business Journal. 

The sale of the Lanham Building at 819 Taylor Street, which houses the Social Security Administration, Internal Revenue Service and the National Labor Relations Board, is expected to save the GSA $348 million. A nearby parking garage, which sits at 401 Texas Street, is also up for sale by the GSA. 

In March 2025, the Elon Musk-helmed Department of Government Efficiency directed the GSA to drop several real estate holdings. The GSA posted and then subsequently deleted a list of 443 federal buildings it was targeting for sale in an effort to reduce government spending. 

Both the Lanham Building and the parking garage made the list. In the wider Dallas area, DOGE also targeted the Centre, the Santa Fe Federal Building, the Terminal Annex Building and the A. Maceo Smith Federal Building, which altogether total a million square feet. Austin and Houston buildings were also flagged for cost-cutting. The buildings in Austin were tied to Veterans Affairs and the IRS. 

The U.S. government has been systematically dropping real estate since the pandemic, with the DOGE operation significantly accelerating the effort, despite government watchdogs saying it cut far less than it claimed. Across the nation, DOGE claimed it ended 679 leases worth $400 million, but later revised the tally to 264 leases worth $113 million, according to the San Antonio Express-News, who cited the Government Accountability Office. The number that DOGE cut themselves was revised even lower, as 108 of the 264 leases were already in the process of being slashed, the watchdog organization said. 

In San Antonio, $30 million worth of federal land involved in the sell-off went to the city’s Project Marvel initiative, which aims to create a new arena for the city’s NBA franchise, the Spurs and a mixed-use entertainment district. 

— Hunter Cooke

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