The Park Service said the volume and complexity of permit requests for the National Mall and White House have increased over the years
“This is beyond a bait and switch,” organizers say.
The park was closed for more than two weeks to remove trees infected by invasive beetles.
A highlight of the plans is the addition of about 15,000 square feet of public space beneath the memorial, known as the undercroft.
It will be closed until September and then NPS will create a full modernization plan that could take months to complete, according to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Roll Call had a subscriber-only story up yesterday about today’s kick-off of an effort on the part of non-profit Trust for the National Mall to raise $350 million to revitalize Washington’s top tourist destination. Students from Ann Beers Elementary School in Southeast are getting things going today by planting 3,000 daffodil bulbs in Constitution Gardens. Citing maintenance needs due to heavy use like cracked walkways and patchy grass, the Trust will be working alongside the…
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We were alerted yesterday via the Art Law Blog that the U.S. Department of the Interior is gearing up to change motion and still photography rules on federally run lands. In an amendment to current regulations, three DOI agencies, the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Services, and the National Park Service, will be authorized to charge standardized fees to and require a permit from commercial photographers who want to shoot in an area…
Written by DCist contributor Benjamin Schuman-Stoler Last week in our “revisiting sites we’ve walked by a hundred times” series we presented the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This week, we’ll look at that huge phallus in the exact center of the original D.C. map — the Washington Monument. Screaming nothing but glory and testament, it is the classic D.C. monument. But we know its background isn’t as simple as its geometric profile. The National Park Service commissioned…
Written by DCist Contributor Ben Schuman-Stoler We all know about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, but probably mostly as a stop on the round-the-Mall tour we give visiting family and friends. If they ask, we tell them that a young woman won a competition in the ’80s. They say, “Wow, that’s interesting. What a great memorial.” But it remains an emotional site, its message solemn and powerful, which we were reminded of when two acts of…
