The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-28
BUILDERS BUYING
UN|MPROvED LOTS
Advent of Bad Weather Does
Not Check Salt Lakes
Great Boom.
MANY SEEK APARTMENTS
NOTWITHSTANDING NEW sTRUc-
TUREs DEMAND is UNDATED.

At some future time, when the history
of the building Of Greater Salt Lake shall
have been written, It will be found that
separate chapters were devoted to hotels.
theatres and apartment houses. Attention
has been turned from one to the other
class Of building construction IN way
that one fad follows another This is a
lighter way OF regarding the advance, and
yet the inadequate description doesn't i'm
ply falling off in demand.
Apartment houses have sprung up,
mostly east Of Main street, at intervals
Of walking distance" until it would ap-
pear that the supply was greater than the
demand Yet they are all full. and there
is still a demand for more. People have
moved from Individual homes into the
cosy apartments of modern buildings;
new families have arrived from other
places and have taken apartments, or
moved into the homes vacated by those
who sighed for the flat, until the apart
ment houses are filled and rented houses
are as scarce as they ever were.
Downtown rOOming houses and small
hotels that have been built within the
last two or three years are in as great
demand as ever, and as soon as the new
est is thrown open for occupancy it is
filled. The smaller hotels, all Of modern
construction, are doing business, in their
proportion, the same as the largest no
tells of longer eSta blishment, and IL there
was no demand for new hotels it is likely
they wouldn't be built at all. It all goes
to emphasize the unflagging growth OF
Salt Lake.
Men familiar with the trend Of construc-
ton believe that West Temple street and
First West street, below Second and
Third South streets, will undergo a re-
vision shortly and that the coming year
viii see many hotels like the Moxum, the
Q De- I,a zfH ar nj
their class going UP along those streets
State street became an attractive thor
oughfare for the smaller hotels, but that
street has no monopoly on the traffic, by
any means. and 1t is expected that west
of Main street there will be great opera
lions in the hotel building line.
There is plenty Of vacant property anC
no end of opportunities. In discussing
this feature with a prominent real estate
man, 1t was learned that few or the Flci
4 opportunities had not been grasped anC
| that lines are now out, and have been GU
/ for some time, for pieces OF ground along
/ Third South street and along West Tenn
pie street. The advance in values hai
! come steadily and the advantage of loca-
| ton is being realized. With the opening
/ Of the new Rio Grande depot the invest
ment calcium will be turned on the west
/ side with more searching glare than Is
now being directed TO the east side Of
/ Main.
Bad weather and the approach Of win
/ ter usually set the brakes upon rapid eX-
changes of property, but the coming OF
| spring opens the market again. Still, the
/ bad w1ather hasn't had a deterioTating
/ influen D., for recently some Of the big
| gest deals in realty have been pulled off
and more are looked for before the roses
| bloom again.
The chapter devoted TO theatres viii be-
| gin, no doubt, with the construction OF
| three new playhouses at one time in Sal
Lake. The Colonial was under construc.
| ton when the Bungalow was built, and
| before either was completed ground wai
| broken for the Mission theatre, which Is
| nearing completion. RumOrs Of yet an
| other theatre are flying about, and sOOI
/ an announcement is expected. Yet, Fu
mors Of skyscrapers and theatres and new
/ hotels are common ana no one who hal
watched the remarkable growth Of Sal
Lake will he at all surprised. at any time
/ to learn that definite steps have beer
/ taken to construct almost anything tina
would add to the metropolitan appearance
Of the city.