However a lawsuit filed by an environmental group blocked the closure, with US District Choose Ana Reyes on Saturday granting a short lived restraining order that required the park stay open for now because the lawsuit works its method by means of the courts.
“The Authorities proposes to shut a historic park, every day loved by Washingtonians of all stripes, indefinitely,” Reyes wrote within the 30-page ruling. “This closure would irreparably hurt Plaintiffs, who use the Park repeatedly for leisure actions.”
She had beforehand dominated in opposition to the early demolition work performed for the venture, together with the reducing down of greater than 500 timber alongside the course.
The golf course is one among a number of tasks launched by Trump in a bid to place his private stamp on the US capital, such because the White Home ballroom and an enormous triumphal arch, regardless of fierce native opposition and a number of authorized challenges.
