The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11
NEW JOBBING CENTER
TAKES DEFINITE. FORM
Property West Of Hennepn Experiences Boom-Largest
B and Most Prominent Wholesale Concerns Propose to
IS Build New Sores or Warehouses Where Trackaae
Z and Freight Depots Are Handy.
ECENT DEVELOPMENTS in

va ECENT developments in real
AZ estate movements and pros
poets for more transfers of
5Nal nable property promise big things
sfor the great North Side jobblng dis
strict and distributing center.
e Several parcels have changed hands
lately, as already announced, affecting
the future disposition Of the block
IN and Fourth and Fifth streets. The
latest news is the en-year: lease by the
John c.. Johnson company Of a building
ito be put up by Charles A.. Bovey, at
@the southeast corner of this block, or
the northwest corner OF First avenue
IN and Fifth street.
IS How Boom Started
rs Backbone has been put into this dis
strict by the report that w. w. Heffel-
finger and other business men Of the
Is district north of Hennepin avenue have
determined to form an organization to
aspromote the interests Of the territory
beyond Hennepin to Tenth avenue be-
tween Seventh street and the river.
The plan will be to develop this part
of the city as the main wholesale and
distributing, district, SO, as to make as
compact iobbing market as possible.
This will tend toward the development
of the popularity Of the city in a job
81 bling and manufacturing way. because
sof the ease with which almost the entire
wholesale section may be visited, with
economy OF time.
s. &"No section of this city shows as
asgood prospects as this great district,
(which is so close to the big distribut-
ing freight depots,' said big manu-
5sfacturer recently.
q Besides the John c. johnson com
pany building, the Minneapolis Supply
company is going :, to build at the south,
Fourth street. The Wyman, Partridge
{ 6 Co. warehouses are being put up at
s Third avenue n and Seventh street and
their new factory is at First avenue
near Sixth street.
Some Of the Big Ones. IS
The Hurty- Simmons company is fig
uring on building at the corner of
Second avenue N and Fourth street. The
w. S. Mott company will have new
$4,000 building at Second avenue N
and Third street. The Boyd Transfer
and Storage, company will build q large
Third street. Thorpe Brothers have
leased the corner Of Third avenue N
and Fourth street for a large ware
house. The Northern Candy company
will be forced out by. the Mott deal and
The Plumbing and steamfitting Sup.
ply company has bought the southwest
corner of Fourth street and Third ave-
nue. N for structure to cost $125,OOO.
These are some Of the building items
tate deal or lease, which show the ire
+ mendous activity In this district as
indications Of the commercial popular
ity of the neighborhood. "=#. e.:
ge'' So many transfers and leases have
taken place in the neighborhood the
Loo he, hot ~ 1ocI ro h q
places are. left. for sale between Hen
nepin and the river. When the space
is5flled in with the new jobbing bust
ness that is coming into the city and
the enlargement Of the present houses
aIsolid. appearance is to be presented. D.
Room to the North.
Across the railroad tracks, however
the new Boardman trackage property
from Fourth to Tenth avenues, Wash
ington to Third street, is being prepared
for the market and will relieve the sit
extension of the district northward
without taking it an appreciable dis
tance from the great railroad freight
houses. ,--. ill.,. -. - 81.
s3In outlining the North Side iobbine
district a wholesaler said: 1.-The ter
Street, north Of Hennepin. will in al
probability be developed before 9 large
volume goes across the tracks. Unques
tionably, according to jobbers' state
rlents, the north side, Of Hennepin i
The place to locate to build up the big
gest distributing business.
~" So many Of the large houses OWL
their own Sites that business is sure tt
remain in certain radius, but afte
all location near the center of the cit,
and the freight depots is what holds
business where it is.
-sns Where Freight Goes.
sassFew persons realize how great
percentage of shipments, especially tx
the west and southwest, start out O.
the Northern Pacific: Great Northern
500, Omaha, Wisconsin Central, st
Louis and. Burlington depots, as com
pared with the South town lines, wher
the haul is longer. ~.
minneapolis is certainly going t.
about boom the coming five years, no
from artificial means, but from actua
necessities caused by development an.
demands Of the surrounding country. ;