palmetto beach to get new road
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65 years ago…
November 15, 1941 – A $202,739 ($2.6 million in today’s dollars) defense project to connect the shipyards with downtown Tampa and Ybor City by way of 19th and 20th streets is submitted by the city to the Works Progress Administration. As written, the city would provide equipment and material to cost $26,653 ($351,162 in today’s dollars) while the government would foot the bill for the rest of the paving roadwork crucial to the nation’s defense effort.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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