The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-18
PLAN BIG BLOCK /
AND new street
AuerbaGh Company to Erect
New Store and Office
Building.
KEARNS PROPERTY ADJOINS
NEW THoRouGHFARE FROM
MAIN TO WEST TEMPLE.

An important office and store building
project which is believed to involve the
opening of a twenty-foot street from
Nam TO West Temple street, just north of
the Auerbach department store on Main
street, is under way among upper Main
street property owners
! TIE Auerbach company will erect an
immense store and office building on the
! property now occupied by their depart
ment store. Gray Brothers clothing store.
Galloway. Hook & Francis and the Utah
/ savings and Trust company. These prop
critics have Main street frontage of ap-
/ proXfmately 40 feet and a depth of about
/ 119 feet. The 135 feet of Main street Drop
| erty Immediately TO the north of the
Auerbach store and embracing the prop
/ erty and stores now occupied by Rivers
/ Brothers Paper company. the Smith Drug
company. Gardeners clothing store and
/ Rowe & Kelly Co.'S clothing store is own
/ ed by Thomas Kearns. This property has
/ a depth of about i75 feet. The thirty-four
I feet Immediately north of the Auerbach
I store was purchased by Mr.. Kearns on
| Dec. II. 1906, for S95, 900 from the Best and
/ DinWoodeY estates At that time Mr.
kearns announced his intention of erect
ing store and office building on the
property.
Must Vacate Their Stores.
That the Auerbach company has decided
| to erect new building quickly as pos
'AOtts 10 UN llt tdtN tlldN Cdiid-
way. Hook & Francis and Gray Brothers
have received notification from the Auer-
bach company that their store leases Will
not be renewed upon their expiration this
year. The Utah Savings and Trust com
pany will Vacate the building il occupies
at lG0 Main street. belonging to the AueT-
bach company, some time this year.
RumOrs that negotiations have been on
! for some time for the opening OF TWEEN
ty-foot street Through the block from
Main street to West Temple street, be-
ties. the dividing line between which lies
but few feet north of the center of the
block, have been current in commercial
circles for some time
Henry ]. Wallace. general manager of
the AueTDach company. refuses 10 make
any definite statement relative to the deal
and Mr. Kea-ns has been equally terse
ia giving out information as to his plans
Hartman Must Have New Street.
The belief that both the Auerbach and
Kearns interests are working hard 10 open
ND the proposed street is strengthened BY
the attitude local representatives of r, ii,
Hartman have assumed in the matter
On Jan Il Mr. Hartman purchased the
old Tribune building on West Temple
street and the residence property adjoin-
/ ing it on the south from T. H. lAnnan
/ for $4,000. 1t is now believed that he has
secured control of the NJ. u Brown rest
1 Immediately south of the lannan property
ty and which is also the first property
. south oil the QlNlQlDk Dlt Ntit
I block This property is S2l5 by 165 feet,
/ and occupies the same position on W est
/ Temple street the Auerbach property &C
eupies on Main street
/ on his West Temple street property MIR,
4 Hartman has announced his intention OF
/ building an elegant downtown passenger
| station for his street railway system lhe
i old Tribune building is to be fitted up as
/ an office building for the departments OF
| the street railway system. With these
plans announced Mr.. Hartman must un-
| street from his passenger depot for his
/ passenger traffic, without competing
! them to go around the block to reach his
station from Main street, and vice versa
Would Increase Values.
Immediately in the rear of tbs. property
Mr. Hartman purchased from Mr.. Ian.
nan is the central steam power plant OF
the street railway company. Ihls ouiid-
| inc which is almost exactly in the CEN
Ter of the block is to be torn down ana
renlaced with modern structure, Wmch
will contain Mr. Hartman centraI sIsall,
/ mower plant according to his Original
mans. The other property in the oloek
/ through which the proposed street Noul9
cut is occupied by small warehouses; anu Ie.l
1achine shops No opposition would De
encountered from the owners OF tnese
nlaces 10 the opening of the new street
as If would make their property worth
! noaoxr times its present value
many u,sntI-foot street through the cen
ter Of the block would take about ten Ieee
- 80, The Kearus and AueTDdc0 prop
o--,;ae s15 would run directly through the
sc,,tbern end of the property now occ9-
81 nv The street railway company
lp+oe,,, niant emerging on west Iempie
s,reaf about the center of Mr. Hartman
S,,ch a street would exactly SUIT MI.
II, 49, ,r,a,,-S interests and in fact amounts
"a. "a 80 ideally a necessity If his proposed
~ se,,syer- 5epot Is TO be easily ana QUICK
IL accessible to downto"h sio ls..aa-
,kronos In all probability II the stree
sroeS through the company new s'o eel
cover plant will be erected - SUM- o ~
~ norton of the city ana the sl,e =.
c,,pied By the present pan. go on
! hafter advantage. as u Nouiu lae 'x, ~
bofh sides Of the new thoreus mar. - 80,
estate men familiar with the situa'i ~
are nositive in their statements .ia. III
farested parties have opened negotiaetTo Sas
on the street project A twenty 10 10
otreet free of street car tracks anu ISL
as n commercial and shopping thoIou u.S ~
fore would be of the greatest PosSiD.e
value to the Kearns and Auerpacn III,
terests so much so that botn can ven
sfford 10 cut the Main street irontdee
I ~ heir proposed buildings Ten leSt W
make room for the street
Business Men Pushing Scheme
The fact that upper Main street bust
ness men have entered upon a campaign
Tor the Improvement of their properties
With a view of counteracting the recent
moves made on lower Main and to hold
the retail center of the city above Second