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Where erstwhile location was grass, past nan elephantine “claw” UFC arena, location will adjacent beryllium a helipad.
Donald Trump confirmed connected Monday that nan information building connected nan South Lawn of nan White House would beryllium a helipad for Marine One.
It’s nan latest task that has turned nan White House into a building zone, pinch nan East Wing demolished to make measurement for a caller ballroom, nan Rose Garden section paved complete for patio tables and seating, and nan West Wing colonnade replaced pinch achromatic granite.
Now we’re building a helipad, a beautiful helipad,” Trump told reporters, saying that Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky will salary nan $5 cardinal to $6 cardinal cost. He said that nan helipad will beryllium needed because nan caller Sikorsky Marine One helicopters ruin nan grass. The helipad, Trump said, has “got nan seal of nan White House, an eagle, and it’s carved retired of granite.”
A number of Trump’s projects look ineligible challenges, including nan caller White House ballroom arsenic good arsenic his plans to toggle shape East Potomac Park’s nationalist play people into title links.
The South Lawn for months was transformed into an arena pinch a elephantine overhang, known arsenic “The Claw,” for UFC’s title arena connected June 14.
