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Ikea Making Excellent Progress Filling Graving Dock

March 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Filled Graving Dock

For those wondering how Ikea’s effort to fill the historic Graving Dock at former Todd Shipyard that both preservationists and working waterfront advocates had been working to save, we can report that progress excellent. While crews weren’t at work this weekend, we did manage a look at it and we can say that if you didn’t know it was a huge drydock you would think it was a future parking lot. Which is what the Swedish home furnishings giant intends.

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