Wider streets such as Pennsylvania and New York avenues allowed center parking: parking along the center median, parallel to the streetcar tracks. Transform Franklin Square into a municipal garage. The need for purpose-built, specially dedicated parking structures came about gradually, emerging in the teens and 1920s. AdvertisementOther cities did get newfangled auto hotels, some of which used elevators and turntables to move cars about. In 1954, downtown merchants proposed building a garage not on top of Franklin Square, but underneath it.

Source: Washington Post April 17, 2021 19:41 UTC