1978 - City Hall Parking Lot Construction

1978

Photo of early construction underway for a 3-story parking garage behind City Hall in the 200 block of East Orange Grove Avenue between 3rd Street and San Fernando Road. In this early ground level phase, rows of vertical concrete columns are being erected amidst on-site workers, a pick-up truck, and a crane in the background. Two pedestrians walk along the sidewalk in front of the enclosed construction zone. According to the Los Angeles Times, SyArt Construction Company of Gardena, California submitted the winning bid of $897,000 in October 1977 to create 307 new parking spaces to provide relief for the congested Civic Center and Golden Mall area. The project architect was Witemberg, Hyosaka & Associates whose design called for two levels of the garage to be suspended over a street adjacent to the mall. Financed by a Federal Economic Development Administration grant and stipulating a construction timeline of six months, the grant also required a minimum of 10% of the work to be done by minority subcontractors. Keeping pace with area growth, the Orange Grove lot was the third parking structure built in Burbank's downtown area in 1978.

242 E Orange Grove Ave, Burbank, CA 91502

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• 1970s

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