Arlington National Cemetery Expansion

under planning

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to carry out a southerly expansion of Arlington National Cemetery. The project will establish a single contiguous parcel of land south of the cemetery by closing and relocating local roadways and developing the parcel to increase interment capacity and increase multimodal transportation capacity on Columbia Pike. The project will increase the cemetery’s burial capacity by 40,000 to 60,000 spaces for first graves and inurnments. The existing Air Force Memorial will be incorporated into the cemetery expansion. Roadway construction will start in 2021 and be completed in 2023. Cemetery construction will begin in 2023 and be completed in 2025.