News and Media

The National Mall Underground has garnered a large amount of attention in the news and media since the inception of the project. As an innovative, multi-purpose, and largely self-funding solution to a host of threats and needs, the Underground continues to gain traction in media coverage.

August 21, 2020
Finance Plan Supports Feasibility of National Mall Underground
National Mall Coalition

August 23, 2019
Flooding is an existential threat to the Mall
The Washington Post

September 18, 2018
Army Corps Says National Mall Coalition Project Can Solve Mall Flooding
National Mall Coalition

September 11, 2018
One Way To Protect The National Mall From Flooding: A Huge Underground Cistern
DCist

March-April, 2015
6 Transportation Projects That Could Change Washington
The Washingtonian magazine, March 31, 2015 (April 2015 print issue)

July 2, 2014
The only thing missing from the National Mall? Reasonable Parking
Scripps News (Reposted by news channel websites in Baltimore, West Palm Beach, San Diego, Kansas City, Detroit, Cleveland, Tulsa, and Cincinnati)

July 2, 2014
Parking lot proposed under the National Mall
Washington Business Journal

July 2, 2014
Group urges Congress to study building parking garage under National Mall
WJLA (NewsChannel 8)

July 2, 2014
This Group Wants to Put a Parking Garage Under the National Mall
In The Capital

July 1, 2014
Proposal would mean underground parking at the National Mall
WTOP Radio

July 1, 2014
Group Still Trying to Sway Congress to Explore National Mall Underground Project
DCist

April 30, 2014
D.C. Lacks Bus Parking Along National Mall, Study Shows
CBS DC

November 22, 2013
National Mall Underground Parking Proposed
NBC 4 Washington

October 25, 2013
Group Still Pushing Congress to Explore National Mall Underground
Dcist.com

March 31, 2013
Underground Parking Proposed for the National Mall
FOX 5 Washington

March 30, 2013
Imagine Parking under the National Mall
Editorial Board, The Washington Post

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