Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-12
TERMINAL MARKET
PROJECT RUSHED
Contract Awarded for 81
Stores to Be Erected on
Water Street Site.

A contract for the construction Of "a
terminal stores fronting on Water street
between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets
southwest, to accommodate commission
merchants and wholesale distributors OF
perishable freight-a project that will
entail expenditures totaling 100000
was awarded yesterday to the M. A.
Long Co. of Baltimore and Washington,
| the lowest bidder. In making this
announcement Col Wrisley Brown,
president of the Potomac Freight
| Terminals Co., said 1t is expected the
project will be completed by next June.
Construction work will begin immedi-
ately. as the preliminary excavation has
been completed. The new terminal
stores will be two-story structures of
modified Colonial design to harmonic
| with the Municipal Fish Market building
on the south side of Water street be-
tween Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
Convenient for Distribution.
Col Brown explained that the site of
these terminal stores is admirably
located for the rapid handling and dis
tribution of perishable freight, as it is
only four miles from Potomac Yard, the
convergirg point for all freight moving
from the South over the Southern trunk
lines The Pennsylvania Railroad is now
constructing an 80-fOot fan-Shaped rail-
road bridge over Water street, to carry
trackage to serve the terminal stores
and the establishments of the meat
packers, wholesale dealers in poultry
and dairy products and other related
industries which will be located in that
terminal area, Col. Brown asserted.
Each store will be 80 feet long and
20 feet wide, the entire block of stores
fronting on Water street for approx
mately TOO feet, with an arcade 80
feet in depth extending over the full
frontage. Folding doors of improved
design will separate the inclosed por-
ton Of each store from this arcade
There will be a 17-foot sidewalk, COW
cred by a marquise, In front Of the ar
and protection from inclement weather,
Col. Brown pointed out.
Some of the stores will have cellars
for the use of dealers requiring them
for storing perishable fruits. In the
rear of the stores, extending for their
full length next to the tracks, will be
16-foot platform ever which perish
ables will be handled to and from rail-
road cars and motor trucks. Elevators
will be provided to facilitate the trans
fer of produce within each store unit
of the terminal.
Refrigeration System.
'These stores will be provided with
necessary. refrigeration by pipe line
from the central plant Of the Terminal
Refrigerating & Warehousing Corpora
ton. occupying the entire block from
Eleventh to Twelfth and e to F streets
southwest Col. Brown explained.
"Conduits for this purpose have already
been installed by authority of Con-
gress."
In the new wholesale area, Col.
Brown said, the L'Enfant plan for the
development of Washington and en-
larged by the Mcmillan commission Of
1901 is being carried out and the prog
ect has the Endorsement of the Fine
Arts Commission. The sales warehouse
Of the Cudahy Packing Co., at Twelfth
and E streets southwest, Is now in
operation In the terminal area. On
the opposite corner a group of stores
for the poultry jobbers has just been
completed and will be opened for opera
ton during this month.