The failing economy has forced organizers to scale back the future National Law Enforcement Museum.
They said they’re cutting $29 million from the $80 million project planned to go next to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Judiciary Square.
The overall size of the mostly underground museum will be scaled back from a four-level, 100,000-square-foot building to a three-level, 55,000-square-foot facility. Completion of the project has been pushed back from 2010 to 2013.
Craig Floyd, head of the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, said the group has raised $37 million so far, but the recession has slowed the donations and the credit crisis has made it virtually impossible to borrow money at affordable rates for museum projects.
