Posted on 05/01/2004 2:33:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – There's a hole the size of the federal deficit on the east side of the Capitol as work accelerates on a new visitor center, the largest, most expensive construction project in the 200-year history of the building.
The project has expanded in scope nearly as fast as the 53,000 truckloads of dirt could be removed, driving its cost up from an estimated $265 million to $421 million.
The three-story underground facility is now scheduled to open in the spring of 2006, delayed some four or five months from the original December 2005 goal because of bad weather, design changes and security enhancements following the 9/11 attacks and a Capitol anthrax scare.
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