The National Mall Third Century Initiative was launched in 2004 by the National Coalition to Save Our Mall to promote short-term and comprehensive long-term planning for the Mall's continued vitality as a great landscape symbol of our country's founding ideals and a stage for our evolving democracy.

  What does the Mall need?

NEW: Save Our Mall Coalition Welcomes NPS Management Plan
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NEW: Who's in charge of the National Mall?
         View the chart (PDF, 484k)

  Listen to the Sept. 21 public radio call-in show about The Future of The Mall with Coalition Chair Feldman

  Read in the July issue of WASHINGTONIAN magazine (PDF, 944k) the article by Washington architect Arthur Cotton Moore, "A New National Mall for the 21st Century"

  Read the editorial in The Dallas Morning News:
Summer in D.C.: Save the Mall from cluttered tourism hell

In The Los Angeles Times, read "The Air and Space Museum is falling. Why is Congress ignoring neglect at the Smithsonian Institution?"

  Watch the fast-paced, informative video The Future of The National Mall. Click here to go to the video.

You will learn the Mall's history, its problems and needs, and our proposed solutions for a Third Century Mall. See what excited the enthusiastic support of The Washington Post and The Weekly Standard. Who else has seen it? Congressional members and staff, the media, National Park Service officials, Smithsonian officials and staff, DC parks and planning staff, and citizen groups in the DC area.

  Recent editorials in The Washington Post (Dec. 10) and The Dallas Morning News (Nov. 28) support the 3C Initiative. The Washington Post reports that "the mood...was electric" at our Dec. 7 Designing for Democracy event at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Read the Transcript (PDF, 636k)
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Visit our print map and interactive digital map of the National Mall. Click here to load the maps.

  As a public service, the Coalition has digitized the rare, out-of-print McMillan Commission Report of 1902 and maps that are the conceptual underpinnings of today's National Mall and Washington, D.C.'s park system.
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Weekly Standard, August 15/22: The Mess on the Mall: Confusion reigns supreme on America's promenade.
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Washington Post, August 7: Taking an Expansive View of the Mall
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View the original Post article with illustration
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NEW FREE MALL MAP/HISTORICAL GUIDE Read more
Information on the Senate Mall Oversight Hearing April 12th. Read more
Op-Ed in The Washington Post, March 21, by Fred Hiatt, editor of The Post's editorial page. Read more
Group says Mall should expand to meet needs of the new century. Read about the Mall’s growth from the L’Enfant Plan of 1791 (First Century) to the McMillan Plan of 1901-1902 (Second Century) and now the Third Century Mall. Read more
Mall group takes Future of the Mall vision to Congress and review agencies. Read more
The Next Phase: Join us by signing up for Task Forces now forming and getting underway

Click here to learn more about the Mall's history, historic plans, and cultural significance.