A Roanoke real estate firm says that the Internal Revenue Service’s office lease in the Star City will not be canceled despite the Department of Government Efficiency saying otherwise.
DOGE’s website lists more than 700 federal government lease cancellations that it says will save taxpayers money. Among them is the IRS’s Roanoke lease at 210 First St. S.W., and DOGE says canceling it would save $289,115 a year for a total of $698,694.
The address is in the First Campbell Square building at the corner of Campbell Avenue and First Street downtown. Other tenants there include the Virginia Department of Social Services, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the U.S. Trustee, and federal and state public defenders…