Submitted photo The Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in downtown Youngstown was included on a list of federal buildings and properties across the nation targeted for closing or selling by the Trump administration.

YOUNGSTOWN — One day after the President Donald Trump administration listed 443 federal properties — including the Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in downtown Youngstown — to potentially close or sell, the list was taken down from a federal government website.

The General Services Administration, which published the “non-core property list” on Tuesday, deleted it Wednesday. Instead of the list, the website states: “Non-core property list (Coming soon).”

With the list posted Tuesday removed, a Wednesday statement on the GSA website reads: “We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations or non-core properties for disposal. Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces. Disposing of these assets helps eliminate costly maintenance and allows us to reinvest in high-quality work environments that support agency missions.”

Before taking down the list, the GSA, in charge of managing federal government properties and overseeing federal contracts, said Tuesday it “will consider non-core assets for divestment from government ownership in an orderly fashion to ensure taxpayers no longer pay for empty and underutilized federal office space, or the significant maintenance costs associated with long-term building ownership — potentially saving more than $430 million in annual operating costs.”

It added: “Decades of funding deficiencies have resulted in many of these buildings becoming functionally obsolete and unsuitable for use by our federal workforce. We can no longer hope that funding will emerge to resolve these longstanding issues.”

The 43,547-square-foot Jones Building is at 10 E. Commerce St., was built in 2002, and houses U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the IRS, the U.S. Marshals Service and GSA — the latter of which posted the initial list Tuesday.

The building was named after Nathaniel R. Jones, a Youngstown native who served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and spent more than 10 years as the general counsel of the NAACP, arguing two cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in the latter capacity. He died in 2020 at 94.

The Jones building is one of two federal courthouses in downtown Youngstown, with the other being the Thomas D. Lambros Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, constructed in 1995 at 125 Market St. Lambros is located a short distance from the Jones Building.

The plan to terminate leases and sell federal buildings is part of a plan from Trump, a Republican, and billionaire Elon Musk, through his affiliated Department of Government Efficiency, to reduce government waste.

Of the 443 buildings on the list, about seven were in Ohio. That included a bankruptcy clerk office in Columbus that was being moved before DOGE was created, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

The buildings on the initial list also included the Washington, D.C., headquarters of numerous federal agencies, including the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.