What’s happening inside is the most extensive overhaul the building has seen since it opened in 1971. Crews are confronting water damage so severe that, in some places, structural steel has corroded down to tissue-thin.
Most of the first year’s work happens deep in the building’s core — structural repairs, mechanical systems, electrical, plumbing. The unglamorous fixes that keep a national landmark standing for the next fifty years.
The price tag: a $257 million federal appropriation, passed through the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” to address decades of deferred maintenance.
A national landmark, mid-transformation — closing one chapter on Independence Day, and reopening, in some form, in 2028.
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