The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-28
PLANS FOR
NEW STORE
Kerr Negotiating
For Plot of
Ground.
Bishop and Hotel Streets
Corner May Be
improved.
Plans for Changes of Establish
msnts in Fort Street-Othsr
Buildings Contemplated.

Negotiations are pending which may
result in the erection on the corner of
Bishop and Hotel streets, fronting the
Young Building, of modern store
building. 1t is reported that the L. B.
Kerr Company is now looking to that
site as the location for a building to
house the departments of their business
when retail selling is resumed.
Mr.. Kerr said yesterday that there
were under consideration plans for the
construction of building for his firm,
but that definite arrangements had not
been concluded and would not be for
several days yet. 1t was reported from
other sources that there is now under
way plan for three story and base
ment store. Should this course be de-
cided upon, the stories would be
high and the fronts on the two streets
modern, that the retail business OF
the firm would have one of the most
handsome locations in the city.
1t is further understood that the loca-
ton plot of ground which is being con-
sidered will be eighty feet on Bishop |
street, and run back on Hotel street |
for ninety feet. There has been no
price set as the cost of the building,
but it would be not less than $4,000 TO
$4,000, to be in keeping with the re-
mainder of the improvements of the
vicinity. There are reported to be bid
ders in the field for the remainder of
the frontage on Bishop street between
this proposed plot and the site set
apart for the postoffice.
There will be material changes in the
Fort street business fronts as a result
Of the determination of the stockhold-
ers of the American Dry Goods Assoc1- +;
alton, owners of the White House, to
,lose out the stock of that establish
nent. The majority of the stock is held I
~ Mr. Kerr, and he will remove the I
goods at once to the store room occu- | {
lied by him at the corner of Queen and S
Fort streets, and there sell it for the /
purpose of turning it into cash as ]
uickly as possible. The building there s
viii be the headquarters for Kerr q
%. until an uptown business home is
hr1fI+ 1
oming forward will be distributed
rom that stand.
The store room of the White House
as been secured by H. F. Wicnmau, I
no will have an archway put in to
ring that room into communication
it'll his present stand. The lease
hich he takes dates from April l. and
4 that date he will open in the new
'om an optical establishment This so a
lat there may be distinct division p
etween the present jeweIry business CO
nd the optical end of the concern. e.
he rear portion of the new room viii, te
, used as a show room for art goods, ii
hich have recently been carried by al
IS house above stairs. Mr.. wichman lii
ayes for the Coast this week for the
lrpose of securing fixtures and stock til
r his new establishment. The fur til
shings will be in keeping with the We
esent store furniture, and the inten- to
IN is to broaden out the business in ra
neral. of
The room which is being vacated by to
wis & Co, who remove to the Levers gu
Cooke building in King street is now ,
der consideration by several pros to