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Demolition crews razed the White House East Wing in October as part of President Trump’s privately funded, expanded White House ballroom project; reports say the East Wing was torn down in only a few ...
The available reporting places the key “ballroom accident” in the context of demolition and heavy construction at the White House’s East Wing in October 2025 — reporters photographed and dated demolit...
Available reporting attributes the White House “ballroom accident” in the query to the demolition and reconstruction of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s privately funded, expanded White...
The lead architect on the White House ballroom project is Shalom Baranes / Shalom Baranes Associates, appointed in early December 2025 to take over design leadership from James McCrery, who will remai...
A new, privately funded White House State Ballroom — described by the administration as a 90,000‑square‑foot expansion including a large formal ballroom intended to replace the East Wing — is being bu...
The firms contracted to build the new White House ballroom are principally known not as social-event specialists but as heavy-hitters in federal, commercial and infrastructure construction and enginee...
Construction crews demolished the White House’s East Wing and have begun work on a privately funded, roughly $300 million, 90,000‑square‑foot “State Ballroom” intended to seat far more guests than the...
Controversy has surrounded President Trump’s White House renovation—most prominently the private-funded ballroom project estimated between $250 million and $300 million—and critics cite demolition wit...
The identities of primary firms tied to the White House Ballroom project are reported consistently: McCrery Architects (initial lead architect), Clark Construction (lead builder), and AECOM (engineer)...
The White House Ballroom renovation plans envision demolishing the existing East Wing and replacing it with a two‑level, privately funded “East Wing Modernization” that includes a very large state bal...
Reporting does not show a clear, documented procurement trail (RFP, formal competitive bidding, or sole‑source award) for the East Wing demolition; public filings and coverage instead identify specifi...
President Trump’s proposed White House ballroom is repeatedly reported as roughly 90,000 square feet and initially billed to seat 650 people before he publicly said capacity rose to 900 and later to 9...
Available reporting shows no public record that White House staff, members of Congress, or visiting dignitaries were formally held responsible for the East Wing demolition or the wider White House bal...
Reporting shows President Trump has overseen extensive White House work — gilding the Oval Office, repaving the Rose Garden, demolishing the East Wing for a proposed $250–$300 million ballroom, and hi...
To find public procurement records for White House construction projects you should start with federal contract databases — primarily USAspending.gov and FPDS data sources — and relevant White House a...
President Donald J. Trump is the president in current reporting who proposed and announced construction of a new White House ballroom in 2025, unveiling plans on July 31, 2025 and directing constructi...
President Trump has replaced James McCrery II — the boutique architect first tapped for the White House ballroom — with Shalom Baranes (or Shalom Baranes Associates), a long‑established Washington, D....