“Superintendent of Public Works Francis J. Laverty predicted early this spring that cars would be rolling into the new $180,000 lot two months after the city took possession April 1.
Demolition of Pratt’s Flower Shop, the Tompkins House, and the Chamber of Commerce Building by the A&T Wrecking Co. of Elmira began that day and was finished May 1….
On order are 92 parking meters and an automatic gate for the lot…. Capacity of the lot is 40 cars.”
“Parking Lot Work Praised,” Ithaca Journal, May 10, 1957, 3.