Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-17
SOUTHWEST MART
PLANS UNDER WAY
Construction of Terminal
Stores and Other Equipment
on Water Street Begun.

start Of actual construction of build
lngs TO provide terminal and market
! facilities in Southwest Washington ir
the Water street area was announced
Yesterday by Col Wrisley Brown. nreSi.
dent of the Potomac Freight Terminals
| Co.
The announcement marked the FIRST
| definite independent action to secure q
center to replace those markets ouSted
| by the Federal triangle building pro-
gram. A bill to establish Farmers
| Market i'm the Southwest area was
passed by the House in the last session
| If Congress, but failed to get through
the log lam in the closing days OF the
Senate, although 1t received favorable
committee report.
The program of development. Col,
Brown announced. will be "on scale
commensurate with the future as we'll as
| the present needs of the city" The
whole undertaking. he said. when COM
oleted. will provide terminal and mar
ket facilities adequate for the receiving,
display. distribution and storage of
Washingtons perishable foodstutfs. in
Guiding fruits. vegetables, farm truck,
poultry and meat"
Principal Features Cited.
Four principal features of the devel-
opment were announced by Col. Brown,
in brief. as follows;
Il. Immediate construction of stores
fronting Water street, from Twelfth to
Fourteenth streets, at building cost
of approximately 100000. These stores
will be modern in every respect. and
are designed to provide facilities for the
wholesale perishable food merchants
who are forced to move from their
present quarters due TO the erection of
new public buildings in the old market
district, at B street and Louisiana ave-
nue..
q Completion OF new railroad
bridge across Water street to carry ad-
ditional trackage into the Water street
terminal area from the main running
tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad
This bridge is already under conStruc-
ton and represents an expenditure OF
approximately $500, 900.
%. Construction of new track facili-
ties from the new bridge into the Water
street terminal area to serve the COM
mission trade and other receiving and
marketing agencies which will be
housed in this district.
Modern Stores in Program.
"a. Construction of modern stores at
a cost of approximately $l00, 600 to ac-
commodate the poultry trade grouped
at Twelfth and e streets southwest, op-
posite the Water street terminal. Some
of the contracts for this work have
already been let by the Terminal Re-
frigerating and Warehousing Co., and
these stores are to be ready for occu-
pancy by December II
The steps taken by the interests in
the Southwest section came as di-
rect and practical bid for the market
centers following the recent complex
battle over the site for the Govern
ment's farmer market.
Certain wholesale merchants were
represented today as still divided in
their selection of sites, whether to hang
together and 60 to the Southwest. Some
were of the opinion they should go to
the so-called Patterson tract.
Projects In Other Sections.
Several projects have been attempted
TO furnish new retail markets In vari'
Gus parts of the city, one of the larges
being a proposal to build a huge new
Center Market in the downtown retail
area, to take care of all the Center
Market dealers who are to be let out
when the Government takes that site
for the Department of Justice Building
This is still under negotiation.
The area of wholesale business, 10
Gated between B street and Pennsyl
| vania avenue, Ninth and Tenth streets
! is to be taken over by the Govern
nlent as soon as condemnation pro
| ceedings can be carried through. but
owing to delays In this long -drawn- ou
| procedure. 1t Is impossible to predic
when the dealers actually VIII be forcet
| 10 vacate.
| The complete plan is the new South
vest DEVELOPMENT. Col. Brown an
| nounced. lis designed to provide il
this district for the development of ade
uuate facilities for all the marketing
agencies serving the city's population
| with perishable foodstuffs.
Outline OF Areas.
I'm accordance with the plan" III
| said. 1.-THE area bounded by Fourteenth
| street. D street, Twelfth street, z street
| Tenth street, Water street and tn
| washington Channel viii include en-
| larged railroad yards for direct deliver,
| of produce poultry, meat, fresh fruit
! and vegetables, team tracks for direc
truck delivery, cold storage facilities
commission house stores and the Mu
| nicipal Fish Market, all convenient.
| located for the economic handling o
/ perishable food supplies received b.
| rail from the South and West, by waite
transportation or by truck from nearb.
| farming regions"
The plans" said Col. Brown. zeal
for the development in Southwes
Washington of a modern co-ordinatet
wholesale market district, following tn
traditional intention Of the acts O
1901 for the improvement and develop
ment of the city, conforming to tn
Macmillan plan.
| Wholesalers to Benefit.
1.-THE stores for commission mer
chants In the wholesale produce. frui
and vegetable trade will be built alonl
| the north side of Water street, facinl
/ that street and the Washington Chan
| mel They viii provide about 10000
| square feet of floor area and will b
built TO afford modern conveniences TO
| the display and sale of perishable foo'
products These stores are expected q