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Ī location for the National Children's Museum opened in December 2012. In 2011, Bonnie Bick, a member of the Campaign to Reinvest in the Heart of Oxon Hill suggested preserving the remaining plantation building, and making it a part of a proposed historical loop of the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail, as a draw for the development. The Walt Disney Company had announced that it would build a new resort hotel at National Harbor, but backed out of the project in November 2011. In 2010, the development was designated as a census-designated place.

As of April 2016 construction was continuing and the cost was set at $4 billion. The site was developed by Milton Peterson's Peterson Companies with the project expected to cost well over $2 billion, and a construction time frame of 2007 to late 2014. The Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor opened on Ap in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Aerial view of MGM National Harbor, looking towards National Harbor Development Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center The pedestrian walkway has statues and figures of famous American and global celebrities, including George Washington, Marilyn Monroe, and Henry Ford. In 2006, Peterson Companies withdrew plans to build a Target department store where the remaining plantation building, the slave quarters, still stand. The site was linked to hundreds of thousands of gallons of untreated sewage being discharged into the Potomac River in 2008. The Sierra Club voiced strong objections in 1999 saying that construction of National Harbor would 'prevent forever the completion of the Potomac Heritage Trail'. This development has caused considerable controversy due to its environmental impacts. In the fall of 1997, the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Army Corps of Engineers approved new developer permits, granted for the PortAmerica project in 1988.

The land was sold in 1984 and in 1994 was rezoned for mixed-use development. The plantation house burned down in 1981 and was offered for sale along with the surrounding land. The land developed for National Harbor was previously Salubria Plantation, built in 1827 by Dr. National Harbor is one of the most visited destinations in the United States, with over 28 million visitors annually. Per the 2020 census, the population was 5,509. It originated as a 300-acre (1.2 km 2) multi-use waterfront development. National Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located along the Potomac River near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and just south of Washington, D.C.

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