Who Needs Office Space in Downtown Houston? We taxpayers are paying for it, but the space is empty!!!

Our new office address!

I don’t know how it made other readers feel when they read the article in Swamplot this week entitled, “Those Emptying Government Offices”, but it made me want to pick up my belongings and move my office into one of these downtown spaces that we taxpayers are paying for, but no US governement officials seem to be using! Why is it that we have to endure homelessness of all ages, undernourished children, and the mentally ill being tossed out of mental hospitals here in the US: yet we have enough of China’s money to waste on things like “empty office spaces in downtown Houston, Texas”?

Read More: The federal government is still paying more than $3.3 million a year for the (as of last September) only 21 percent occupied 117,000-sq.-ft. U.S. Attorney’s office at 919 Milam St. Downtown (the lease expires in June 2013; the offices are moving to Wells Fargo Center). And over at Three Allen Center (at left), a much smaller lease for more than 11,000 sq. ft. by the General Services Administration that expires in 2014 is only 1 percent occupied. Those are the top Houston highlights in a report detailing unused office space the GSA is spending big bucks to lease. According to Texas Watchdog reporter Mark Lisheron’s scouring of data unearthed by a report in the Washington Examiner, 103 Texas properties leased by the GSA for government agencies are less than 5 percent occupied. [Texas Watchdog; spreadsheet of Texas leases] Photo: LoopNet