Washington– The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening for visitors. The last step In the Trump administration’s plan to fix the causes.
Plansincluding designs for the 33,000-square-foot (3,066-square-meter) center, were included in a preliminary agenda released Friday for the April meeting of the federal panel that approves construction on federal land in Washington.
The screening facility will be built below Sherman Park, which is located southeast of the White House and just south of the Treasury Building.
The park has long been the place where White House tourists and guests line up for security checks before they remove a series of trailer-like structures and walk to the East Wing entrance. President Donald Trump demolished the East Wing Last fall to build the dance hall. Visitors are currently lined up near Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
The new screening facility will have seven lanes to facilitate processing and reduce wait times. Construction could begin as early as August, according to plans, with the White House saying it wants the facility up and running by July 2028, six months before Trump’s term ends.
The monument to Confederate Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in the middle of Sherman Park will not be removed, according to plans for the project, a collaboration between the Executive Office of the President, the U.S. Secret Service and the National Park Service, which manages the White House grounds.
The National Capital Planning Commission, which oversees federal construction, plans to discuss the proposal at its April 2 meeting, according to a tentative agenda distributed Friday.
The meeting’s agenda also includes a discussion and final vote on the Republican president’s plans to build a 90,000-square-foot (8,360-square-meter) building, including large dance hall, Where the east wing used to stand.