DC Construction history

In the 1990's, realizing that great cities can't rest on their laurels and concerned that new memorials and museums were crowding the National Mall, NCPC began planning for the next 50-100 years.

The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, which serves the Supreme Court, opened in 1992.

A related project, completed in January 1993, effected the repair of the Olmsted terraces, which had been subject to damage from settling, and converted the terrace courtyards into several thousand square feet of meeting space.

Building height limits in the District of Columbia : hearing before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on H.R. 4242, to enforce the law regulating the height of buildings in the District of Columbia, April 26, 1994.

Congress dissolved the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation in 1996 and delegated responsibility for the avenue to NCPC, the General Services Administration, and the National Park Service.

Conflict, compromise, and building height limitations : change in building height controls in Chicago, New York and Washington, DC by Kiyoshi Sakamoto Type: Book Language: English Publisher: 1999.

NCPC and the National Capital Regional Planning Council produced the influential Year 2000 Plan, proposing a model for long-term regional growth.

The plan proposed creation of a ‘reserve' or no-build zone, on the Mall, a concept Congress made into law in 2003.

The plan, amended in 2004 to include site-specific solutions and improved guidance to sub-mitting agencies, provided guidance for the design of contextually sensitive physical security features in the city's monumental core.

In 2006 NCPC guided and edited a second edition that described the transformation of Washington into one of the country's most vibrant cities.

Current construction to the grounds is the United States Capitol Visitor Center scheduled to be completed late 2007.

Opened in 2008, the United States Capitol Visitor Center is the newest addition to the historic Capitol Building.