Robert A. Peck is coming back to the General Services Administration as the commissioner of the agency's Public Buildings Service, GSA announced on Aug. 10. Peck, who calls the public-buildings position "the best job in real estate," served as PBS commissioner during the Clinton administration, from December 1995 until January 20, 2001.
It is certainly one of the biggest real-estate jobs in the country. PBS oversees design, construction, leasing, management and security for the 354 million square feet of office buildings, courthouses, border stations and other facilities that the federal government owns or leases.