The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-08
The Usual Retarded Movement Experienced
al This Time Of the Year.
BUILDINGS UNDER CONTEMPLATION
one Hundred New Tenc,nents May lie
Erected ut I.nmber,'s Point-sov-
car Store business B:ocIs for
church street The Synagogue
May Go TO yrcernnson Str..t.

y visit to the real estate Offices yes
lerdaF revealed some interesting jnfor-
nation which Is embodied I'm this ar
tiCle..
Movement in this particular line of
business at this time OF the year is
usually somewhat slow. and this sea-
son IS no exception. There is alw,ys
lhii before the spr:rig time activity,
1t is probable that early in the snr;n,.
u new two-story block of seven stores
VIII be erected on Church street. near
queen, similar TO the block put IN last
year by MIR. w. II. II. Trice. The lat
ter by the way, has just completed two
substantial two-story pressed brick
front dwellings on bermuda, near
Fenchurch street.
Although negotiations have not been
completed, II Is not premature TO saw
That the new Ohef Sholem Synagogue
VIII very probably be located on Free
mason street.
out In East Brambleton nearly 500
lois rave been sold IN the last eighteen
months at prices ranging from $75 to
$40 Ihis section Is building up rap
iuiE: Fifteen houses were erected there
IN The past year and several are in
course of constructions
al Park Place some thirty dwellings,
good, substantial ones, too, have been
erected In the last twelve mCcrths and
threc or four are now going up
IL Is said that Il well known capitalist
expects to put UP n hundred tenement
houses at Lambert's Point next spring.
ne mas been negotiating for the work,
out mas not yet completed his plaaS
This wonderful little town is grow
ing IKE Il Christmas turkey. anu II Is
only question Of Il short time before
all the land around there will be built
UP, particularly when the Norfolk and
western people put up IL hig elevator
there, rs the Illinois Graindcalcrs' AS
ISOLATION wants them to- do. That, too,
is Il question of time.
The extension of the street car line
10 lambert's Point has had much 10
DO with Its growth, and ii is now, to all
lhtcnts ana purposes. 4 part of Norfolk
one OF the best established principles
or municipal growth is the encroach-
mcnt of the business of n city upon its
dwelling sections. This has been true
IN notable degree ot Norfolk Older
citizens can remember when some of
the best people in the corporation re-
sided on Talbot street, and Cnly n
comparatively short time ago East
Main and Bermuda streets were fash
| ionable thoroughfarcs. \ number of
lie good old families still cling To their
homesteads unon the latter. but Main
| street has undergone a. radical change,
"hu mas pccn practicailS given over to
BUSINESS The future of East Main
street will probably be that OF n high
way for small businesses. This is the
usual evolution or involution. Fifteen
years ago Water street was the princi-
pal business street of the city. Now
| Inc trade OF the town is slowly but
surely moving westward. In few
years, as the age of Il municipal corpo-
| ration goes. all OF Granny street to
Butte will be converted into a business
section. and n somewhat slower, though
similar metemorrhosis is taking place
on bank. In the meantime the resi-
! dental portion Of the city Is being rap
| idly showed out to the northwest.