The herald., 1895-08-15
REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING
Building Activity as Indicated
by Permits Issued
a SATISFACTORY SHOWING
Construction Of Houses Only Keeping
Pace With Population
Ssne Real Estate Sales Reported, Together
With improvements Contemplated
by the Purchasers
a SATISFACTORY SHOWING

During the week ending yesterday 81
permits for the erection of new buldi ga
we're issued at the office of the city su-
perintendent OF buildings. the total esti
mattel cost of tho new structures being a
little IN excess OF $90 900. While the
weeks work is not record breaker,
either 10 the numb Der of buildings or theil
cost, 1t is a very fair weeks work, and
considerably larger than until the last
few months has been considered good
cause for astonishment. As in the case
OF all other lines of development, there is
more or less fluctuation in volume from
week to week and from month to month,
but at the same tins during the last two
years. when special attention has been
paid to building statistics. there has been
4 steady increase in the amount of wory /;
and q more critical observation Of the
work done discloses that the building
operations have fuctuated only as the
demand fluctuated. whether for stores,
fats or homes. Buildings of every kind,
where reasonably we'll located. are gener-
ally occupied, and both stores and dwell
ings OF the better class ale for the most
part rented before they are completed.
and in not few cases before the founda-
tions are laid.
As indicated by the figures above, the
buildings for which permits were issued
during the week were those involving
only a moderate expenditure of money,
though they include structures for all
purposes, from homes to stores. from sta
bles to warehouses.
The most expensive building represen t.
ed in the list OF permits is the tw o-story
and basement brick block to be erected
on the west side of Broadway betwee II
Second ana Third streets, by DR.. Edgar,
the estimated cost being SIG. 900.
Mrs. Anna Miner will build a three
story brick building on Main street BE-
tween Fourth and Fifth streets, at an
outlay Of $i2,950. The block will be used
for stores on the ground floor and for
lodging and rooms above.
The next IN point of cost is the three
story and basement addition to the ware
house of the Ice and Cold Storage COM
pany on Santa Fe avetnue between Sixth
and Seventh streets. The contemplated
Improvements will cost $4,000.
Of the remainder of the list nine.tenths
are residences, and most of them OF mod
crate cost. to be occupied by the ow ners.
OF the more expensive homes for which
permits were issued ara those of L. ..
Wyman. on Bonnie Brae street between
Ninth and Tenth streets. to cost $500; of
Mrs E.. fl. Cobb, on Towne avenue. $1,000,
and c. Wing, Boyd str ct. $1,000.
There are few buildings intended for
use ae combined stores and dwellings,
among them being Frank Careys pro-
posed structure at the corner of Georgia
Bell and Pico streets, two stories, to cost
$4,000, and two-story lodging house on
Olive street between Fourth and Fifth
streets. to bs built by ]. B. Waters at a
cost of $4,000.
OF the dwelling houses. the majority
range in cost from $1,000 to $500. with
some good deal cheaper and few bet
ter ones more nearly approximatlng in
cost those referred to above. Compare
lively few are built to rent, and the
weeks record, even more emphatically
tbnn has been the case of late. points to
the conclusion that Los Angeles builders.
DO far from "overbuilding" the city. are
barely keeping pace with the daily in
crsasing demands for homes on the part
OF new corners who may have been at
tracted hither by the charms of climate.
but who unquestionably intend to stay
here and to become integral parts of the
industrial community.