August, 2020: "The FBI plans to relocate about 1,500 employees and contractors to Alabama by the end of next year with possibly more to follow, according to bureau officials. The moves are independent of plans to update the bureau’s headquarters in Washington. Almost a dozen FBI divisions and offices, which the agency declined to specify, will move to Redstone Arsenal, an Army installation in Huntsville, under plans spearheaded by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the powerful chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

While Senate Republicans, at the request of the White House, included $1.75 billion for renovating the dilapidated and overcrowded FBI headquarters in their proposed $1 trillion stimulus package last month, Democrats oppose the funding. Even if Congress were to approve the headquarters upgrade, the relocations would still take place, an FBI official told Government Executive.

The FBI’s cramped, outdated headquarters office in downtown Washington has long been a source of frustration for the bureau, which had planned to move to a new facility in the Washington suburbs before President Trump took office. But in July 2017, the Trump administration scrapped a decade-long plan to relocate the headquarters. Democratic lawmakers accused the administration of wanting to keep the bureau in its current location near the Trump International Hotel to prevent commercial developers from constructing a new property on the site that would compete with the hotel."

https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/08/fbi-will-relocate-1500-staff-alabama-next-year/167623/