Recently, the 2022 Stewardship Report was published on the GSUSA website, and it features a little blurb about the National Property Plan that can be found on pg. 30:

Council Property Portfolio Rebalance Reports

The Property Team is also supporting councils’ immediate real estate decision-making. GSUSA contracted and funded Newmark to complete a property portfolio rebalance report that provides data-informed recommendations for every interested council. The reports provide current assessment and takeaways from a working session, as well as demographic projected population, and density maps to understand how well each location is positioned. The report also includes “scorecard” assessments of each service center and office based on key criteria, as well as a series of high-level recommendations and suggestions to optimize each council portfolio. This work began in fall of 2022 and will be complete in September of 2023.

You might be wondering – there’s a national property plan?  Yes, there is. I’m not going to go through it here, but if you want the background on it, you can read this article from GSG and view the webinar that GSUSA hosted in 2020. When you boil down to it, there’s not really a “plan” per se like you hear about council property plans – or at least I don’t see one that’s forward-facing. But obviously I’m not privy to much, so don’t take what I say as gospel. It looks to me like it’s basically just GSUSA providing councils with real estate assessments via a third party (Newmark). This service is completely optional, and it’s up to councils to decide whether they want to participate or not. I don’t know how many have taken GSUSA up on this offer.  Continue reading