- City:
- Salem, MA
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Description
Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor constructed a parking lot in downtown Salem, Mass.; since eliminated. WPA Bulletin, 1937:
WPA will help answer Salem’s parking problem with the construction of a public parking lot, on Front and New Derby Streets, which will accommodate 100 cars. Mayor Bates, sponsor of the project, estimates that the space will accommodate a total weekly capacity of 21,200 cars allowing each car one and one-half hour parking time. Merchants of the business district look for increased sales on completion of the lot which will be graded, drained, set with curbing, macadamized and marked with white lines.
Source notes
Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Oct. 1, 1937 (pg. 2) https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unitSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 19, 2017.
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