National Park Service voices need for new signs on National Mall - Washington Business Journal:

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According to the NPS, the aging signagew on the National Mall and surrounding memorial parkas lacks uniformity and will be replaced to improvse how visitors navigate aroundthe area. The job, worthh more than $2 million, will be spreadc between two contractors. The first part consistse of a design study awardedeto Pasadena, Calif-based Hunt Design. Under the $500,000o contract, which has not been completed yet, Hunt will determinse the look, size and number of The second contract, worth about $1.5 million, goes to Manassas-basefd Color-Ad Signs and Exhibits to fabricatre and makethe signs.
“There are largee numbers of people who come to the Nationalp Mall on a daily and annuakl basis who are not from Washington and they are new to the saidBill Line, spokesman for the National Capital region. “That’s where this study will come into How to best put up signs to be helpfulk inwhat locations.” The proposed new signds will follow the park service’s uniformm standards for creating and maintaining outdoor signa at all NPS locations in the U.S. According to the NPS, some new signds could be up around the Lincoln Memorial underd the first phase as earlyas June.
It is beinfg funded as part ofthe agency’s grany program to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of its A joint partnership between the NPS and the Trustg for the National Mall, which raisea funds to restore the area, will pay for the Signs would be installed in threes phases to address specific needs in each park area. “Coming abovr ground near the Smithsonian Metro, for example, especiallg if people are not from they are disoriented and having some signs in those areasz would be of great help to many said Line. During the first phase, signs will be replaced arounde the Lincoln Memorial and parts of Constitutio andIndependence Avenues.
In phase two, signs will be replaced in East and West Potomac Parks and on the WashingtomMonument grounds. During phase three, signs will be put up east of the Washingtobn Monument and near the plaza in frontr of the Grant The NCPC does not yet know if its meetin to take action on the signs will bein