A $100 Million Power City Planned at Priest Rapids
A grand, hundred-million-dollar vision for an industrial city rises on the Columbia—though for now, it exists only on paper.
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SEATTLE.—Construction will start soon on the $100,000,000 power project and industrial city at the Priest Rapids, according to H. J. Pierce, president of the Washington Irrigation and Development Company, a General Electric Company subsidiary. The Federal Power Commission recently granted a permit for the power dam.
“Construction will start soon on the $100,000,000 power project and industrial city at the Priest Rapids.”
The 'industrial city' at Priest Rapids never materialized as an urban center, but the area was later transformed into the Hanford Site, which played a pivotal role in the Manhattan Project. The massive dam project eventually succeeded, but not in the way the original developers imagined when selling the dream of a sprawling industrial metropolis.
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