The two largest federal buildings in San Francisco have been designated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as “non-core assets” earmarked for sale.
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) plans to offload a 640K square foot downtown office building at 90 Seventh Street, renamed last year as the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, and a 360K square foot federal office building at 50 United Nations Plaza, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, citing GSA documents.
The government agency which manages federal real estate, now is being staffed at its upper levels by associates of Elon Musk, who is running DOGE. It has been directed to sell off more than 500 federally owned government buildings across the U.S., according to a report in Wired.
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GSA has been told to reduce the size of the government’s owned real estate footprint by 50% and the number of buildings by 70%, and to transition tenants currently in those buildings “as needed” to the “private leased market,” Wired reported.
The 1930s-era building at 50 United Nations Plaza currently houses the GSA’s headquarters for the Pacific Rim Region, which includes California, Nevada, Hawaii, Arizona and overseas U.S. territories.
The federal tower at the intersection of Mission and Seventh streets can house up to 2,000 federal workers. It was built in 2007 for $144M, with features including retractable windows operated by climate sensors and a three-story sky garden.
In 2023, federal employees of the Department of Health and Human Services working at 90 Seventh Street were ordered to work from home as a result of escalating safety concerns in the neighborhood.
In addition to the two buildings in San Francisco, at least a dozen other government properties in California have been designated for offloading by GSA, primarily in Los Angeles and Sacramento, the Chronicle reported. The list of non-core assets includes the Leo J. Ryan Federal Building, a federal archive and office facility in San Bruno.
Federal cuts also are impacting one of the most popular destinations in San Francisco, The Presidio.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week calling for the elimination of the “non-statutory components and functions” of the Presidio Trust, the public-private partnership that runs The Presidio, a 1,500-acre national park at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Presidio, a former military outpost and national landmark, is home to 600 historic buildings, residential housing, the headquarters of Lucasfilm Ltd., the Walt Disney Museum, a golf course and a hotel, as well as trails and picnic areas with a spectacular view of the Bay.
In 1996, Congress established the Presidio Trust, which jointly manages The Presidio with the National Park Service. Since 2013, The Presidio Trust has been a self-sustaining agency, reporting operating revenue of $185M in its fiscal year 2025 budget, with expenses of $139M, netting a $46M surplus for this year.
As part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Presidio Trust is scheduled to receive $200M in federal funding to make infrastructure upgrades.
Trump’s order, which labels the Presidio Trust “an unnecessary entity,” calls for cutting all federal funding to the Trust that is not legally necessary. The order requires the Trust to deliver a report on its activities to the Office of Management and Budget within two weeks.
Lisa Petrie, the Trust’s manager of public relations, said in a statement that Congress stopped making annual subsidies to the agency in 2013. Since that time, it has relied on “funds earned by leasing the historic buildings that the Trust has renovated,” she said.
Petrie said the $200M IRA grant to the Trust is “completely obligated and we’re making progress on the infrastructure projects it is funding.”
“The Presidio Trust has self-funded for more than a decade, and San Franciscans can rest assured The Presidio is not going anywhere,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said, in a statement that called the national park “a crown jewel of San Francisco and a national model for how public land can serve the public.”
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