Street Improvements Coming to Second Street
A new contract with a Walla Walla firm promises to modernize a major downtown corridor by May.
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The public improvement committee of the city council this week closed a contract with the H. L. Wilson company, of Walla Walla, for the improvement of Second street from Washington to Pacific. Mr. Wilson and brother are in the city now and expect to start a grading crew at work Monday morning. Unless bad weather delays the work the job will be completed by May 1. The contractor is to receive 38 cents per square yard and the city is to pay freight charges on a steam roller and oil sprinkler from and to Walla Walla.
“Unless bad weather delays the work the job will be completed by May 1.”
Infrastructure expansion was the primary tool of the 'boom' era, as small towns rushed to pave their streets to signal permanence. Today, Second Street in Kennewick remains a central axis, though the debates have shifted from grading dirt roads to managing contemporary urban density and traffic flow.
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