Vancouver in play for National Park Service regional HQ, California pushes back


The U.S. National Park Service has become the latest casualty of San Francisco’s soaring office rents and housing crisis.

Vancouver, Wash., on the other end, could reap a big reward.

The federal agency plans to uproot its west regional office, which supervises 60 national parks throughout the western United States, from San Francisco’s Financial District for Vancouver.

A relocation plan to move the agency’s 150 western regional employees to a vacant building it owns at the Fort Vancouver…

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