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Show o S. L. Hotel Opens Parking Terrace The staff of Salt Lake City's newest hotel, the Hotel Temple Square, how lays claim to the city's newest parking terrace. The building of a ten level parking terrace by the hotel has just been completed, reports Clarence West, hotel manager. These new parking facilities will answer a major problem confronted con-fronted by the hotel. National figures show nearly 90 per cent of all travel in the west is done by automobile. Hotel Temple Square, being situated opposite the historic Mormon Temple in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, has had difficulty creating sufficient parking space for motoring mo-toring guests. The new parking terrace, a reinforced re-inforced concrete structure, was finished with precast concrete panels at a cost of over half a million dollars. Parking facilities are contained con-tained on the five floors stepped to provide ten parking levels. In the construction, the entire building was "split" and steel plates inserted to provide protection pro-tection in case of earthquake. This "split" provides for expan- sion and contraction from front to back in case an earthquake should hit the city. The ten levels, two of them underground, will accommo6V 350 cars. Expansion of anotl I four additional levels is planned for the future and will bring '.total capacity to over 500 cars. |