Last month, the U.S. General Services Administration announced that the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building would get a hefty $115,130,000 for “High Performance Green Building Modernization,” part of a $4.2 billion plan to make federal buildings more energy-efficient. This immense but decidedly unlovely 40-year-old concrete block of an office, an island in the asphalt parking lot sprawl at Fort Snelling, houses a number of federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department and Fish & Wildlife Service. The only other Minnesota federal building on the GSA stimulus list is the 12-year-old federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, slated to get $2.977 million for energy efficiency upgrades.

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