National Harbor
National Harbor is a real estate project with the status of a statistically recorded settlement area (American: Census-designated place ) in Prince George's County of the US state of Maryland . The facility is located on the Potomac River and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on Interstate 495 (referred to here as the Capital Beltway ). The cities of Alexandria and Washington, DC are each about 4 kilometers away. The entire facility extends over an area of almost five square kilometers (including water areas) and has around 4,000 inhabitants.
The area was previously a plantation from the first half of the 19th century. After the plantation house burned down in 1981, there were several changes of ownership. In 2008 the first phase of the real estate project by developer Milton V. Peterson was completed. Since then, National Harbor Maryland has been developing. It already includes a conference center, several hotels and apartment blocks, 30 restaurants and 150 retailers (some of which are combined in a factory outlet center ). In 2014, the 55 meter high Capital Wheel was opened, a ferris wheel with 42 eight-seat, air-conditioned gondolas and built at the end of a 230 meter long pier . A casino from MGM Resorts International opened in December 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ovetta Wiggins, Proposed development in Oxon Hill, next to National Harbor, worries preservationists , Washington Post online 16 May, 2011
- ↑ Capital Wheel website ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ MGM Resorts International website
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Coordinates: 38 ° 47 '3 " N , 77 ° 0' 59" W.