GSA - Buildings/Facilities

The Southeast Sunbelt Region provides federal employees with 41.7 million square feet of space in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. This comprises 140 government-owned and 1,297 leased buildings serving 253 federal agencies and housing 93,000 employees..

For any facility related questions, concerns or requests, clients should contact the appropriate Property Management Office. To learn more about how your agency can take advantage of GSA's design and construction services, please call the R4 Real Estate, Design and Construction Office listed on the upper right of this page.

The Southeast Sunbelt Region has GSA's largest construction/renovation program with workspace projects for agency clients totaling $1.6 billion in capital projects, $33 million in minor repair and alterations projects, and $373 million in reimbursable projects.

Here are just a few of the services GSA provides:

• Leases space to federal customer agencies.
• Repairs, alters, and renovates existing facilities.
• Constructs new federal buildings and courthouses.
• Operates child care facilities in federal properties.
• Disposes of real property for GSA and other federal agencies.
• Practices energy conservation, build green, and recycle.
• Preserves and maintains more than 60 historic properties in the federal government's inventory.
• Commissions the country's most talented artists to create artwork for new federal buildings and conserve a substantial inventory of artwork from the past.

The Southeast Sunbelt Region is the proud steward of 62 historic properties, more than any GSA region outside of Washington, DC. The historic inventory ranges from pre-civil war customhouses to mid-century modern buildings from the 1950s. The buildings range in size from the huge, award winning Gene Snyder Courthouse in Louisville, KY, to the simple Gnann House in Plains, GA, home of President Jimmy Carter's Secret Service detail.

The Region recently added another antebellum building to its inventory, Memorial Hall in Natchez, MS, a former school hall that is being adapted for use as a federal courthouse through a unique partnership between local, state, and federal governments.

Throughout the Southeast, our historic buildings provide a tangible connection between communities and the history of their nation, reinforcing the federal government's ongoing commitment to maintaining our country's historic resources.

PBS in 2008

Region 4 Public Buildings Service at a Glance

Art Programs

Fine Arts Collection: 444 works
Art in Architecture: 78 works

Childcare

R4 has eight centers in five states, caring for over 689 children on a daily basis. A ninth center sponsored by the Social Security Administration, opened in Birmingham, Alabama, in February, 2009.
Eighty-seven percent of eligible centers are accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

Courthouse Programs

During FY 2008, one courthouse was under construction at a total project cost of almost $150 million. No courthouses were completed in 2008. However, three other courthouses were in progress in 2008 in this region (either site or design phases).

Customer Satisfaction

For 2008, Region 4 received a score of 74% versus a target of 72%.

Federal Employment

PBS in Southeast Sunbelt Region has 578 employees.

Energy

At the completion of FY 2008, PBS Region 4 reported reduced energy usage of 4.27% (in BTUs/GSF) as compared to last year. We are 13.2% below our 2003 baseline and are in compliance with the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 energy reduction mandates.

Federal Tenants

Number of Agencies: 253 total agencies
Number of Tenants: Almost 93,000 occupants in PBS controlled space.

Historic Buildings

Region 4 PBS manages 62 historic buildings including four contributing buildings to National Historic Landmark Districts.

LEED Certified Buildings

One government owned.

Energy Star Buildings

Certified: 11 buildings (ten government owned, one leased).

Operating Costs

Region 4 ended FY 2008 with combined cleaning and maintenance costs at only 2.1% above comparable private sector costs, based on costs per rentable square foot.

Outleased Space

136 outleases across the region.

Property Disposals

Property Disposal transferred or sold fifteen surplus properties for the federal government during FY 2008, valued at over $18.3 million.
Since GSA’s restructuring, Property Disposal has transferred or sold 42 assets for PBS valued at $74.6 million. Of the $74.6 million, $59.3 million was returned to the Federal Building Fund.

PBS (Assignable) Inventory

140 Owned Assets
17,622,608 Owned Rentable Square Feet (RSF)
1,297 Leased Assets
24,073,993 Leased RSF
1,437 Total Assets
41,696,601 Total RSF

Percentage by Property Type

Office: 90.5%
Industrial: 2.9%
Other: 6.7%

(In the above breakdown, courthouses were categorized as other. If courts are broken down into a separate category the numbers are: Office: 90.5% Courts: 3.5% Industrial: 2.9% Other: 3.1%).

Recycling

In 2007, our region recycled over 1,471 tons of paper, aluminum, and other traditional recyclable materials. Additionally, another 109 tons of construction materials were recycled. Cost Avoidance was $115,312. Current Statistics are not yet available for end of year 2008.

Revenue

In FY 2008, our region was challenged with a high level of volatility in its monthly billing activities, with many organizational and operational issues contributing to the rent unpredictability. Our personnel devoted their efforts to assure the full collection of program rent for FY 2008, and ended the fiscal year with $779.6 million in revenue, an increase of $27 million above the original FY 2008 estimate of $752.3 million.

Total Starts in 2008