The good Lord knows, and just about everybody else does, too, the federal government eventually became the sort of sprawling enterprise Thomas Jefferson warned against. It’s bigger than William Taft’s bathtub.
One measure of that growth sits at 819 Taylor St., where the government once needed a $20 million building to house 37 federal agencies.
The federal government sent out a notice last week that it plans to dispose of the Fritz G. Lanham Federal Building and its adjacent parking garage in downtown Fort Worth as part of a broader effort to reduce its real estate holdings and operating costs…