Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
A SQUIRREL HILL PLAN
Near the Contemplated Greenfield Avenue
Boulevard About Ready for the Market
manufacturers After q Suburban Site
Latest Gossip and Transactions.

Near the Contemplated Greenfield Avenue
Boulevard About Ready for the Market
Manufacturers After Suburban Site
Latest Gossip and Transactions.
THURSDAY, Sept ID.
A new plan of lots located ON Squirrel
Hill, Twenty-second ward, will be placed
on the market on or about Monday next by
M. P. Howley & Co. The new plot COM
prises 20 of the 80 acres recently purchased
by Messrs. Howley & Co. and is situated in
close proximity to the contemplated Green
field avenue boulevard.
The plan will contain $50 lots, which will
vary in size from 30 to 80 feet front on 50-foot
streets, and will have depth OF l23 feet to
20foot alleys. Twenty of the lots have been
sold already, and the erection OF dwellings
will be commenced shortly by the pur-
chasers. The owners of the plan will reserve
at least 80 lots upon which they will erect
nve dwellings and offer for sale when COM
pleted
The remaining 55 acres will not be laid Off
In plan until next spring, when it Is ex-
pected that the contemplated extension of
tne second avenue electric line VIII be COM
pieted. When in operation the line will run
olrectly to this property, which Will nat
urally give it additional interest and value.
Items of Gossip.
Thomas McCatfrey is negotiating for and
expects to close the sale OF a manufacturing
site loca ted in Lawrencevile in a few days.
The amount involved is s350 0O0.
Several parties owning realty on Perrys-
Vile avenue, short distance beyond the
terminus of the Pleasant Valley electric
line claim they have been offered very good
prices for their property by Allegheny City
authorities. The purpose for which the city
desires the land is said to be Tor magnif-
cent park. The offers were submitted
through an agent, but it is understood that
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city.
A large steel plant located at the present
time in the city, is egotiating with the
Blair Land Company for tract of land COM
prising about ten acres located ut Blair Ste
ton, and # the deal is closed the company
will remove the works to that place. 1t will
be known in a few days whether the trans.
fer VIII occur or not. 1t is reported that
several other manufacturing concerns are
desirous of obtaining the tract.
Building Permits.
The following permits were issued to-day:
Henry b. Negley, two frame two-story dwell
lfngs, Broad street, above Fairmount street,
cost 5000 for both; Rev. II. Denny, brick
one-story brick business storage house,
Smallman street. corner Thirty fourth
story dwelling. Dallas street, near Kelly
street, cost 81 1900; Annie C. Phillips. brick
two-story dwelling, Webster avenue, near
Devill1er street, cost 5000.
Reports From the Brokers.
Reed. McEllroy & Co. sold for Mrs. Cath
arine Graves to Edward E. RiecK lot PAX
200 ieet located on Niagara street, upon
which is erected twostore frame dwelling,
for $4,000.
j. E. Glass sold for the Columbian Land
and Improvement Company, in their Home
stead Park plan, lot No. u Tor $500,
John K. Ewing & Co. sold for Mrs. Eliza
Preston lot from ting 4S feet on California ay-
enue and extending back 159 feet to q street,
being lot No. 5S in the Rfdgeview plan,
Eleventh ward, Allegheny, for 81, 200 cash.
No. 80 in the Highland Place plan, adjoin-
ing Highland Park, having frontage of 80
feet on Pacific street, and extending back
l2o feet more or less. to a 2O-foOt alley, for
$l,70O.
Black & Baird, sold for D. W. c. Boyle ct.
al, lots Nos. i9 and 20 IN the Shaler plan in
the Thirty y-hfth ward, fronting 100 feet on
Fingol street by depth OF 200 feet with
two-story frame house erected thereon, for
$2,9l5.
The Burrell and Kensington Improvement
Companies report the following sale of lots
at Kens1ngton, the new manufacturing city
on the Allegheny Valley Railway: Mrs. Jane
Miss Maria V. Kauffeld, Parnassus. Pa, lots
l647, l64s and 1649. block 2s, for $3.50: Hart
man Coleman, Pittsburg, lots 432, 433, 434 ABS
and 486, block 25, for s., 1856 %; Robert N. Gal
braith, Pittsburg, lots $50 and sol, block "a,
for ST, ,2l3 75.
W. A. Hesson Jones sold a lot 24x1O0 feet,
on Madison avenue Thirteenth ward, for
proving the street They also sold lot No.
A in John l. Williams plan, Millvale bor-
rough. fronting SO feet on North street, but
irregular in shape. for 500.