Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-19
BIC BUILDING INVESTMENTS
Eorthward Advance Of Wholesale District
Has Begun with VigSr.
TRACKS ON NINTH A MOVING FACTOR
Conservative Savings and Loan Assoc
citation Latest to Announce an
Intention 10 Erect n New
Building on Harvey.


The announcement Of NJ Z. Smith &
Co. that Mrs. Nash will build for them
| a mammoth wholesale dry goods house
and factory on Ninth street, between
Farnam and Douglas, marks the beginning
| Of the northw ard advance Of the Omaha
wholesale district 1t is considered only
matter Of few years until this growth,
gradually attracted to the vicinity Of Far
nam and Douglas streets by the opening
Of tracks on Ninth street, will encroach
on the red light district Of the Third ward
| until its residents are forced to find other
| locations
As long as the Union and Burlington
| stations are at their present locations, Il
| will be impossible to build tracks across
Tenth street Since practically all the
ground available for wholesale purposes
| west Of Tenth which can be reached by
! trackage under the viaduct is already in
| use, II is only reasonable to suppose that
| future growth will be largely to the north
Of the Burlington and Union Pacific head
| quarters. Then, no doubt, the better
trackage facilities afforded on Ninth street
will cause the removal to that vicinity
OF some of the Jobbers already located
| farther south.
|
the new field. They will build on the west
side of Ninth street. between Farnan
! and Douglas, two eight-story buildings.
lS2xl2 feet, one a warehouse and the
other a factory. 1t will be the largest
wholesale establishment in the city.
! Another firm to select a location east
of Tenth street is the Byrne & Hammer
| company. for which j. A. Creighton has
broken ground for an eight-story building,
| l'Gxl32 feet. at the northwest corner of
Ninth and Douglas streets.
Retail Center widening out.
! The most rapid development shown in
the retail district this year has been along
South Sixteenth street. The Hoagland
block, one of the finest retail buildings in
| the west, has been erected at Sixteenth
and Howard streets, and is now occupied
by two large firms. Just across the street
John r. Webster and ]. A. Sunderland
are erecting a retail building which will
cost about $4,000. Benefits big store Is
at the southwest corner of Sixteenth and
Harvey street and just across the street
east of it is a desirable location for another
large building. When Peter E. Her erects
his 100000 hotel at Sixteenth and Howard
streets, that section of the town will be
a city of itself.
Building permits already taken out this
year at the city building inspectors Office
reach the enormous total of more than
100000, which is greater than for any
single year since 1899. Last years permits
amounted to S2,O51,OOO
OF the buildings erected this year. and
of those for which ground has been broken,
eight cost upward of 100000 These are:
The Brandeis store, eight stories Six
teenth, Seventeenth and Douglas $4,000.
Cd
Howard, $25O,OO0
Webster & Sunderland building, six
stories, Sixteenth and Howard, $3.50, 900.
Byrne & Hammer building, eight stories,
Ninth and Howard. 100000
Y. NJ. c. A. building, Seventeenth and
Harvey. 100000
Parlin. Orendorff & Martin warehouse,
eight stories, Tenth and Jones, 100000.
Hayden Bros. store six stories, Seven
teenth and Douglas, 100000
Allen Bros. warehouse, six stories, Tenth
and Farnam, 10000.
Beside the NJ. E. Smith buildings, which
will cost $4,000. there are proposed a Ma
sonic temple at Twentieth and Douglas, to
cost S15O,OOO a new Her Grand hotel at Six
teenth and Harvey, to cost $4,000 a ware
house for Paxton & Gallapher at Tenth
| and Jones' to cost 800, 900, and Young
/ Women's Christian association building at
Seventeenth and st. Marys avenue to cost
: $125,OOO, to say nothing of numerous smaller
buildings to cost from $4,000 upward to
( $4,000 or $4,000.
l Numerous Elevators Erected.
. The year has been one Of elevator build
{ ing, also. Six elevators have been built or
l are now in the course of erection and they
a represent together with the cost of the
4 sites, an outlay of more than 100000
!. They are the Independent elevator, with a
= capacity of 100000 bushels: the Updike
t elevator with a capacity of $4,000 bushels
a the Crowell Grain and Lumber company z
$ elevator with a capacity of 10000 bushels
g the new Merriam & Holmquist elevator
n with a capacity of $4,000 bushels; the
e Trans-Mississippi elevator at Council Bluffs
y with a capacity of $4,000; the Cooper-Vor
y Dorm elevator at Council Bluffs with a
capacity of $1,000 bushels. The elevator OF
the Iowa Nebraska Grain company at Glib.
Z son, built late last year, has a capacity OF
Isl, 900 bushels. The new Merriam & Holm
-, Quist elevator on Sherman avenue will be
enlarged next summer with storage tank:
for $4,000 bushels.
New Building Harvey.
The Conservative Savings and Loan as
q ISOLATION have purchased of John F. Coad
e the thirty-three feet OF ground fronting
S south on Harvey street, between Sixteenth
q and Seventeenth streets, Immediately ad
n Joining the Nash building on the west, anC
i will at once proceed 10 have plans pre-