City plan for Akron, prepared for Chamber of commerce . property owners, and thepeople of the city as a whole, as is the casewith the proposed site for the new UnionStation at Akron. B. CIVIC CENTER JUST as the trend of business develop-ment and the natural leads of the citystreets determine the location chosen forthe Union Station, so the same factorsgovern the choice of location for the pro-posed Civic Center. The section deter-mined upon is not only accessible fromMain and Exchange Streets, and all thecar lines of the city, but is at the intersec-tion of diagonal streets leading in all dire
City plan for Akron, prepared for Chamber of commerce . property owners, and thepeople of the city as a whole, as is the casewith the proposed site for the new UnionStation at Akron. B. CIVIC CENTER JUST as the trend of business develop-ment and the natural leads of the citystreets determine the location chosen forthe Union Station, so the same factorsgovern the choice of location for the pro-posed Civic Center. The section deter-mined upon is not only accessible fromMain and Exchange Streets, and all thecar lines of the city, but is at the intersec-tion of diagonal streets leading in all direc-tions: Park Street and proposed viaduct toWest Market Street; Main Street and thenew viaduct to North Hill; North Forgeand Carroll Streets to the east; East Ex-change and its extension to the southeast;Grant, Hill, and South Main Streets to thesouth; Bowery Street and Wooster Avenueto the southwest; and West ExchangeStreet with Maple Street to the west andnorthwest. The site itself is a broad, level tract suit-able for building purposes, and already. View of building at corner of Main Streetand Howard Street, Akron laid out with wide streets and well-shapedblocks. The city now owns considerableland here in Perkins Park and PerkinsSchool site. The remainder of the propertyis not developed with expensive buildings,and would therefore be relatively cheap topurchase, which, coupled with the low costof improvements necessary to oj^en thedistrict, would make the project a verypractical one from the financial point ofview. Especially is this true when oneconsiders the present assessed value of thesurrounding neighborhood, and contem-plates the favorable changes that wouldoccur in a few years with such a scheme asthat proposed. The present business district of Akron iswoefully cramped and congested, being
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