The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-08
MANY COSTLY HOMES
MAY BE BUILT IN NEW REsIDEN-
TIAL SECTION OF CITY.
PROPERTY T0BE DEVELOPED
AND A HOME BUILT AT COST OF
$4,000 BY c. HARVEY GRANGER.

Has Secured the Branch Tract to
vided Its 115 Acres Into LOO
Building LOts-Waiting Only For
City to Open Streets When He VIII
Begin 10 Exploit PrOperty-ThinISs
Fifty Fine Homes VIII Be Built
There is Months After Streets Are
opened-NO One Will Cost Less
Than $3,OOO-FOrty-ffth street to
BE Laid Out with Squares and to
Have Street Car Line.
large number of attractive, costly
and handsome homes will soon be To-
Gated in the southeastern section of
the city if the plans and views of Mr..
c. Harvey Granger are carried out.
Mr.. Granger has recently secured
what is known as the Branch tract,
south of Estill avenue, by which it is
bounded on the north. extending to
Forty-seventh street on the south and
from near Lincoln street on the west
to Waters road. The tract contains lis
acres and has been divided into LOO
building lots of 80 by lis and 80 by los
feet
Between the streets lying east and
west lanes twenty feet wide have been
planned in conformity with the plan
of older Savannah, and on Forty-fifth
street three squares of the size and
character of those on Bull street have
been planned at the intersection of
CT
Harmon street.
All that Mr.. Granger now needs be-
fore opening up the property for sale
is the opening of the various streets
by the city and the granting of the
rights that usually follow-fire and po-
lice protection, sewer connections and
lights. For the opening and grading
of the streets Mr. Granger is now ne
gotiatfng with the city, and hopes to
have a favorable report to his request
AS soon as the streets are opened it
is Mr.. Changers intention to take for
himself the first ten lots at East Broad
and Forty-third streets, extending to
Forty-fourth street, and on this plat,
about 300 by 300, build for himself
residence that will cost in the neigh
borhood of $25.000 1t is Mr.. Changers
intention to have none but the most
desirable persons build on this proper
ty, and to this end will sell no one
who does not obligate himself to build
a home, and one to cost not less than
$4,000. No Objectionable buildings of
any character will be allowed All
these things will be stipulated in the
deeds to the property.
Already Mr.. Granger has been as
sured by some ten or twelve gentlemen
that they viii follow his lead and erect
homes for themselves on the tract, and
it is Mr.. Changers belief that in five
years from the time he can secure mu-
nicipal improvements for his property,
it will number more costly and hand
some homes than any other section of
the city. Within eighteen months after
the streets are opened, he is confident
fifty homes win have been built on the
property.
In order to give it street car advan-
tages he will endeavor, when the streets
are opened, to have the Habersham line
extended as far as Forty-fifth street,
then eastward on that street to Waters
road, forming at Waters road and Dale
avenue, a connection with the Collins
Vile line, and thus giving the south
eastern part of the city a belt and a
good schedule.
1t would be good policy on the part
of the city, Mr.. Granger says, to open
the streets through this tract as the
taxation received from the increased
value of the property and the improve
ments that would be made in a very
short while would more than pay for
the expenses of the work.