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Both ends of the new super-expressway have already been built, but the connecting, stretch across the city is still unstarted. Right of way to property in the highway's path must first be bought and the buildings eventually destroyed...
Every city in the U.S. has growing traffic congestion; billions must be spent to unsnarl it. In New York City, some $40 million a year is being spent on arterial highways. Boston is building a $20 million elevated highway to relieve downtown traffic; Atlanta has a $75 million expressway system on its books; Columbus has one blueprinted. Cities will spend more millions removing the "blighted areas" that rot away their cores. In Manhattan alone, whole blocks of Harlem slums are now being razed; modern brick apartments are taking their place...
...million River Park center, planned for a 90-acre site just off the Schuylkill Expressway near Philadelphia's city line. When it is completed, it will have a hotel, three 770-unit apartment buildings and an office building, each twelve stories high, 70 shops, and parking for 6,000 cars...
...Garden plant was taken by the state last spring as part of eminent domain proceedings to build the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway near North Station. Originally, the Garden had intended to move the ice-making machinery from the Boston Arena to the Garden. Had this plan gone through, the Arena would not have been available for college practice and games this year...
...Wolfson contributed "in excess of $150,000" to Democrat Fuller Warren's successful campaign in 1948 for governor. Manhattan's Merritt-Chapman & Scott, of which Wolfson is board chairman, now has a $3,588,959 contract building the bridge substructure for Jacksonville's new $50 million expressway. The firm, whose total backlog is $89 million, has many big projects outside Florida, including part of California's $30 million Folsom...