(rshsdepot) Re: Wilmington, DE

["Alexander D. Mitchell IV" <lner4472_@_verizon.net>]

You know, I seem to recall this station getting a COMPLETE, top-to-bottom renovation and restoration in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Scaffolding all over, temporary station facilities, everything proposed here.  Are we saying that this station has to be rebuilt, top to bottom, every 20 years or so?  If so, what does that say of the quality of work therein?<b56e8e4a0e3047fb9c13a7bf2b1ed524_@_db64kk81>
From The News Journal.

Original articles and pictures at:
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090505/NEWS/905050323 

Bernie Wagenblast

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VP kicks off face-lift of his favorite train station

Wilmington terminal will undergo $32 million restoration and update

By GINGER GIBSON
The News Journal 
May 5, 2009

WILMINGTON -- As part of a $32 million renovation to the Wilmington train
station, riders will soon notice a more modern waiting room, restoration of
the historic building's crumbling facade and repairs to its platforms.

But first, passengers will spend about 14 months navigating a temporary
station made up of about a dozen connected portable buildings, like those
often used to provide extra classrooms at schools.


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