Old Post Office Still in Limbo

The General Services Administration has been collecting proposals for the Old Post Office space for nearly a year - and though today was the day they were to have made their final determination, we instead were told they'd need until "early 2012" to decide.

As we reported, heavy-hitters like the Waldorf Astoria, Trump Hotel, the National Museum of Jewish People, and Carpenter & Company had all put in proposals for the space.  The GSA has not released the full list of proposals, but we are aware of nearly ten - most of which turn the space into a luxury hotel with some mixed use commercial space.

The space is the largest commercial building and the third tallest in DC - only shorter than the Basilica and the Washington Monument (it edges out the Capitol by a whopping 26 feet).