Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1926 — Page 15

FEB. 26, 1926

NEW BUILDINGS SOON TO DOT CITY SKYLINE

City Permits and Architects’ D Plans Point to Construction Program Which Will Exceed $26,000,000 of Last Year. Beams and girders fall in place and thousands of Indianapolis workers are busy contributing to what promises to be one of the most active spring season’s for construction in the city’s history, according to Bert J. ‘Westover, building commissioner. The city building: department Is confronted with business that promises to raise the 1926 total building valuation higher than last year’s $26,000,000 mark. Although actual permits are a little lower in valuation than during 1928, Westover said reports from architects' and builders' offices are they are planning for a number of big buildings and apartments. From 800 to 900 houses now ere under construction according to department estimates, while records show scores of apartment houses being erected. There Is an unusual boom In religious edifices, according to Westfcgver, a number of fine churches and Associated schools having been projected. With the housing boom is associated the construction of big business buildings. Work has begun on the War Memorial plaza main building, between Meridian and Pennsylvania and Vermont and Michigan Sts., which untlmately will involve $2,000,000 expenditure. / Then the $250,000 Indiana * National Guard Armory, in the 700 block on N. Pennsylvania St. IS well under way. Finishing touches to the $1,000,000 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Meridian St., between New York and Vermont Sts., are being effected. Another spring building enterprise 1b the $400,000 four-story addition for the Real Silk Hosiery Mills near the present plant. Business Structures Construction Is scheduled soon on the $130,0000 business edifice the Flshback Coffee Company has undertaken at Delaware and McCarty Sts. The Standard Oil Company is constructing an office building and warehouse at Harding St. and Oliver Ave. On Fall Creek the Indianapolis Water Company is building a slx-milllon-gallon reservoir. The huge Splnk-Marott apartment, Meridian St. and Fall Creek, will be opened in 1926, as will the $125,000 Wesley Hotel, Sixteenth St. and Senate Ave. A $35,000 motion picture theater Pand storerooms will be added to the north side when the Clyde Realty Company completes Its structure at 4213 College Ave. The Market and Alabama Realty Company la erecting a large garage at Market and Alabama Sts.. The cliff dwellers will have ample housing faculties during the future, It appears frtm permits granted to apartment builders. Large Apartments One of the largest structures will be the $300,000 apartment the Thomas A. Moynahan Company is undertaking at 8015 N. Meridian St. At Alabama and Twelfth Sts., Henry G„ Do liman Is building a $50,000 apartment house and the Volrath apartments, Palmer and Talbott Sts., will cost $65,000. Everett M. Schofield is constructing a $35,000 apartment at 28 W. Twenty-Eighth St., while another $35,000 apartment Is under way at 1511 College Ave. Ample housing facilities for St. Vincent’s hospital nurses will be certain when the $450,000 home near Fall Creek and Illinois St., Is completed. The new Shortridge High School is problematical both as to certainty of erection and site. The cost will be $1,200,000, If the school board ever takes definite action. Schools to Be Completed However, the $329,000 Washington | High School, Sheffield and W. ’Washington Sts.; the $300,000 Negro high school, Twelfth and West Sts., and School 46, Reisner and Mill Sts., to cost $142,000, should be completed before fall. The St. Philip Neri Catholic School, Eastern Ave. and Michigan St., now under way, will total SIOO,OOO. One of the eccesiastical buildings is the $200,000 Irvington M. E. Church, on Audubon Circle. There also Is the Church of the Little Flower, Fourteenth and Bosart Sts., while bids have Just been opened for the Broadway M. E. Church, Park Ave., and Thirty-Eighth St. ' An electric railroad Is to be built to the summit of the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in the Bavarian Alps.

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Better Real Estate and Business Conditions Reflected in Postoffice Report— More Stable Than in 1925.

Indianapolis is enjoying better real estate and business conditions now than in August, 1925, it was shown in a report released today by A. B. Mundelle, superintendent of mails in the local postoffice. The report was made after an exhaustive survey of condi-. tions throughout the city by Government mail service employes. The survey shows that Indianapolis has reached a more stable point in its city-wide building progranj, which this year promises to surpass all others, it was pointed out. More buildings, offices, residences and business rooms are occupied now than were six months ago and there also are more vacancies and less construction on at present, which, according to real estate men, shows that the residents are selecting, with greater care, better locations, but are building enough to keep slightly in advance of the needs. Occupancies The report shows the following in connection with occupancies: Office rooms, 4,239; businesses, 8,700; residences, 88,664, and apartment suites, 9,535. The report six months ago contained the following figures in this class: Office rooms, 3,909; businesses, 8,590; residences, 86,583, and apartment suites, 9,302. In vacancies the recent report; shows; Office rooms, 631: businesses, 849; residences, 4,636, and apartment suites, 1,130. Vacancies Reported August’s report showed the following vacancies: Office rooms, 580; businesses, 842; residences, 3,448, and apartment suites, 1,918. The report announced today shows the following under the heading of buildings under construction: Office rooms, 363; businesses, 126; residences, 428, and apartment suites, 218. The last-survey showed that 429 office rooms were under construction then, 131 business places, 822 residences and 263 apartment suites were being built. WOMEN AGAIN PUFF FAGS Brief Temporary Trecline la Over at London. Bv NEA Eervicg LONDON, Feb. 26.—After a brief temporary decline, smoking has increased again among of London under influence of smoking parties given by popular hostesses. For the more Intimate parties smoking coats are worn, usually of velvet, slightly longer than a man’s smoking jacket, fastened with frogs and sleeveless.

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