Condon

The GSA didn’t list a price for the courthouse, but commercial property broker Mike Condon Jr. of Cushman & Wakefield estimated that it could sell for about $60 million.

The “thin buyer pool” potentially includes wealthy individuals or family offices willing to wait years for demand for space to return to the market before starting renovations, which could include converting it to apartments, Condon said.

“We’ve never had the adversary in the White House that we have today,” said Ed Condon, executive director of the Region 9 Head Start Association, which represents four states, including California.

But Condon’s speech that day was focused on a dark vision about America’s future.

Thousands of government scientists, economists, and other experts were being investigated, and in many cases fired, in the name of anti-communism and national security—a campaign that Condon compared to ideological purges by the Nazis in the early days of the Third Reich.