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Title	New shopping center and SNET building, Oak Street redevelopment area, New Haven.
Creator	Hill, John T.
Place	North Frontage Road (New Haven, Conn.)
Topic	Urban renewal Shopping centers Stores, Retail Automobiles
Theme	Infrastructure Livelihood
Description	View of a new shopping plaza just south of the Oak Street Connector (Route 34), Oak Street redevelopment area, New Haven. Businesses in the shopping center include a bank, Primrose Stationers, Ladd Restaurant, Nankin's, a package store, Pete's Auto & Cycle, and James Brown & Son and Ruth's. The new Southern New England Telephone (SNET) building can be seen in the background in the North Frontage Road area just beyond the Connector. Cars are parked in the shopping plaza parking lot.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Dated Summer 1960. One of a collection of photographs taken by the New Haven Redevelopment Agency to document a massive urban planning and development project undertaken from 1956 through the mid-1970s. The federally-financed redevelopment initiative was realized through a series of projects focused on particular New Haven city neighborhoods identified by street or area names. These projects involved the demolition of old structures and construction of new buildings, roadways and other facilities. Oak Street extended from Congress Avenue to Howe Street, two blocks south of George Street. The Oak Street neighborhood was an early and major target of redevelopment. It was an ethnically diverse area of shops, restaurants, residences and family businesses. The perception of it as a gritty neighborhood with decayed housing stock caused planners to seek to substantially reconfigure and transform the area. Oak Street and other roadways and buildings entirely disappeared, replaced by the new connector and modern commercial and residential structures. The Oak Street (Route 34) Connector is also known as the Richard C. Lee Connector. Lee was mayor of New Haven during the redevelopment period, and a driving force behind the effort. Appears to be the College Plaza shopping center, occupying a site on the east side of College Street south of the connector. SNETno longer owns the George Street building, which is now occupied by other business firms.
Date created	1960.
Physical format	1 photograph ; 8 1/8 x 10 in.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	File name: nhchs_pha_nhrapc_f369_ph12.jpg
Source	New Haven Museum and Historical Society
Collection	The New Haven Redevelopment Agency Photograph Collection.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The New Haven Museum and Historical Society.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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