According to the New York Post, the Herbert C. Hoover Building will be getting $34 million from the stimulus package for renovation. The Department of Commerce has already received more than $7 million for the ongoing renovations for this year. According to the article:
"The project is expected to cost $893 million by the scheduled completion date in 2021.
A Commerce press aide declined to let a Post photographer take pictures of the lobby's marble floor, gold-tinted eagles and other ornaments.
"The renovation is needed," the aide said, "because the [building] has not been renovated since it was built in the 1930s. Furthermore, it's the third-largest building in the federal government." It's also the last in its neighborhood to be rehabbed, he said.""
I wonder how much the building cost when it was built.
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