Further to the discussion of the Tex Park, there is a list of properties to be expropriated on the city council minutes of July 28, 1960 (page 857):
http://legacycontent.halifax.ca/arch...p0835-0868.pdf
For those who aren't aware, there is an archive of old city council minutes at the following link:
http://legacycontent.halifax.ca/arch...ndex.php#M1937
Discussion of Tex Park actually started on May 26, 1960, in a proposal to council by the Downtown Business and Professional Men's Association (apparently professional women didn't have a voice back then...), whereby it was felt that a lack of public parking downtown was having a negative effect on businesses.
The discussion starts on page 633 at the link below:
http://legacycontent.halifax.ca/arch...p0627-0654.pdf
In the discussion they are also talking about a Grafton Street parking garage, which I imagine is the drawing below from 1957 showing a parking complex at the location currently occupied by the Prince George Hotel:
Looks like it never evolved past anything greater than just a surface parking lot, though, as this photo from around 1970 indicates:
There was also mention of digging down at the Grand Parade and building an underground parking complex there - not sure if it would have been a good thing or not...
Also of interest is the discussion just before the parking garage of a Northwest Arm bridge(!).