WRA designs the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Space Flight Test Building to support space exploration

The U.S. space shuttle program quadruples its number of missions between 1981 and 1986.

Throughout the 1980s, WRA handles site planning for the Tiger Exhibit, Children’s Zoo and Chimpanzee Exhibit.

With the development of Harborplace, the Maryland Science Center, and the National Aquarium the city's Inner Harbor becomes a top destination.

The firm's improvements to the South Locust Point terminal at the mouth of the Inner Harbor increases capacity—and opportunity.

Booming foreign and domestic trade challenges U.S. ports to keep up with increases in traffic, volume, and environmental regulations.

WRA oversees the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's New Carrollton Route with two aerial stations, surface and aerial tracks.

After the population's decades-long exodus to the suburbs, President Johnson sees mass transit as a way to bring people back to cities.

WRA develops a water supply plan for the city that minimizes salt water exposure while providing enough to meet OC's growing need.

Ocean City experiences a massive boom in tourism as hundreds of thousands flock to the beach each year.