WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 14, 2019) The Kennedy Center’s first expansion since its opening in 1971, the REACH is the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ historic, $250 million expansion project.  A living memorial for President John F. Kennedy, the REACH is envisioned as a 21st-century cultural campus and arts incubator and the 4.6-acre site is located on a former parking lot for buses.

Visitors can walk through a 35 ginkgo tree grove anchoring the south end of the campus (Kennedy was the 35th U.S. president), watch a free outdoor simulcast performance projected on a wall, or stroll to the reflecting pool and mahogany landscape deck which is built in the same dimensions and mahogany boards of Kennedy’s WWII torpedo patrol boat, the PT109.