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The Pleasantville Press
Pleasantville, Atlantic County, New Jersey
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Update on Atlantic City Convention Hall construction: clearing sand from high tide, installing beams for concrete floor, preparing for 350-foot steel spans (12,000 tons ordered), to complete in 1928 for major events. Contractor confident.
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CONVENTION HALL
Pour Concrete to Support
Beams-Big Structure Will
Be Finished on Time
Removal of the final accumulations of sand brought in by the recent tide, the highest known in more than a quarter of a century, will be followed this week with placing beams and beam supports for pouring the concrete floor of the Atlantic City Convention Hall, the largest in the world.
The next procedure of the hall construction will be the erection of the 350-foot clear spans for which 12,000 tons of structural steel have already been ordered.
The first shipment is expected to arrive in less than three months, from the American Bridge Company. Following the steel erection, the brick, stone and concrete work on the hall superstructure will proceed.
The building is to be finished in 1928, in time to meet the requirements of several large meetings already booked, and it is planned to go after the national conventions of the two big political parties.
M. B. Markland, president of M. B. Markland Co., the contractor, declares the big hall will be finished on time.
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1928
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Removal of sand from recent high tide followed by placing beams and supports for pouring concrete floor of the Atlantic City Convention Hall. Erection of 350-foot clear spans using 12,000 tons of structural steel ordered from American Bridge Company, with first shipment in less than three months. Subsequent brick, stone, and concrete work on superstructure. Building to finish in 1928 for booked meetings and national political conventions. Contractor M. B. Markland declares it will be on time.