"This is all just a proposal," Gibson says, explaining thatanother option under consideration would leave the existingbuilding intact, and yet another would renovate it. The existing561,559-sf tower at 11000 Wilshire Blvd., built in 1970, houses theFBI and a number of other federal agencies, with the FBI taking upabout nine floors of the structure.

The new towers would house the field office headquarters of theFBI, which now has offices both in the federal building and inDowntown Los Angeles. Under the second alternative, the existingtower would remain intact and two new towers would be built. Thethird alternative would be "no action whatsoever," Gibson says.

The new headquarters would not replace any of the existing FBIfield offices, which the bureau maintains at a number of locationsthroughout Southern California. However, it would consolidateoperations now housed at the Federal Building and the Downtown L.A.offices.