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Article: CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON WEST PARKING LOT AT CITY HALL.(CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 10, 1997
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Byline: LIZ SZABO, STAFF WRITER
The children's loss may be the senior citizens' gain.
Construction of a controversial new parking lot at the municipal center began Oct. 1.
The expanded west parking lot will provide additional parking spaces for senior citizens and others who use the Great Bridge Community Center.
But the lot's construction will demolish the baseball field behind the community center - one of the few baseball fields in Chesapeake - along with the woods and trees that have provided a playground for children and shade for municipal center employees.
Excavating machines cleared a path for the bulldozers that last ...