Trump’s arch now has elevators—and a $100 million price tag

Sailing through a crucial design review, the president’s monumental arch in Washington, D.C., just got a lot more expensive.

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The monumental 250-foot arch President Donald Trump wants to build in Washington, D.C., just got even more bloated—and one step closer to an official approval.

A new concept design presented at the May 21 meeting of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) includes several major—and expensive—changes to the project. New details include an internal gallery floor with three event spaces, four elevators inside the vertical supports of the arch and a fifth elevator between the gallery floor and the observation deck, four spiral........

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