The DOGE slashathon has led to the cancellation of nearly 217,000 square feet of federal government leases in Florida, with slightly more than a third of terminations occurring in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
As a result, Florida ranks as the state with the seventh highest number of lease cancellations by the General Services Administration (GSA), according to an Avison Young online tracker. The GSA is coordinating with DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, in trimming the federal government’s commercially leased footprint.
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Since DOGE got to work in January, GSA has cancelled leases on six million square feet of commercial space nationwide, Avison Young’s tracker shows. Washington D.C. took the top spot with 1.5 million square feet of leases canceled so far. California came in a distant second with 338,000 square feet in terminated leases.
“We were spinning around trying to find a good source for this data online,” Avison Young’s Tucker White, who co-developed the tracker, told The Real Deal. “We couldn’t find one, so we just decided to make one. Any cancellations [on the GSA website] show up weekly. We’re tracking it closely.”
Avison Young’s Grant Hayes, the tracker’s other co-developer, said 90 percent of the canceled leases were either for spaces in which GSA had stayed beyond the expiration date, or had reached a date in which the federal government could exercise a termination clause.
“That’s the main way that they’ve been able to go about canceling these leases across the U.S.,” Hayes said.
In South Florida, roughly 77,000 square feet of GSA-leased commercial space has been terminated to date, the Avision Young tracker shows. Another 723,000 square feet in Miami-Dade and Broward counties are eligible for cancellation this year. Palm Beach County has close to 120,000 square feet leased to GSA that is at risk.
Overall, 83 percent of GSA leases in South Florida that are eligible for cancellation are office spaces, the tracker found. The remainder are primarily industrial spaces.
The three largest lease cancellations in South Florida have been previously reported: In March, DOGE listed the Miami headquarters of the US Agency for Global Media at 4201 Northwest 77th Avenue in Doral as one of its targeted leases for termination. The 35,927-square-foot building was home to Radio Marti and TV Marti, two publicly funded stations that broadcast to Cuba, but that were also targeted for drastic cuts by DOGE and the Trump administration.
DOGE also canceled the lease for the National Park Service’s 21,356-square-foot office in Homestead, and terminated the agreement for a 14,691-square-foot Westchester office leased by the Food and Drug Administration.
