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BumRushDaShow

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3. One of my cousins had texted me last night about this story
Thu Mar 6, 2025, 05:39 AM
Mar 2025

as they were targeting buildings where she lives. Yesterday the Philly Inquirer had an article about the buildings here that were on the list - Trump administration proposes sale of federal buildings all over Pa. — with three in Philly -



The current VA building here is relatively "new". The original building that my dad had worked out was actually an old factory/warehouse that had been built in the '20s, that the government bought and refurbished for office space (eventually putting computer systems in to process Veteran's benefits/checks, where my dad was a COBOL programmer for that), and they apparently moved into that building in 1949 -



Eventually the old building was torn down and a new building was put in place on the lot 30 years ago (1995) -



I remember driving by the location over the years and was shocked when I saw they were tearing down the old building and constructing the new one (the old building space became the parking lot for the new one, that was built on the far end of the property).

There had been a list of buildings on GSA's site (some had even taken screenshots of it) and then that was taken down.

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