Maybe the "G" in G-man will someday stand for green?

A North Carolina-based developer has been awarded a contract to build a LEED-certified field office for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Jackson, Mississippi.

Highwoods Properties (NYSE: HIW) is to build a $31.7 million 110,000 square foot, three-story Class A office building and annex.

Construction is to commence in the third quarter of this year and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2009.

In May, a contract was awarded to Chicago-based Higgins Development Partners to build an FBI field office in Detroit. The company is seeking LEED silver certification for that building.