Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-01
Will Be Fire-Proof Ferro- Con-
crete Throughout and Six or
Seven Stories High-Located
Opposite Austell Building.
HAS 2O-YEAR LEASE
AND OPTION TO BUY;
PERFECT EQUIPMENT
To Have Approximately 10000
Square Feet Of Floor Space.
Specially Adapted to Journals
Uses.

The Journal is to have a new building.
1t will be located directly opposite the
Austell building at the northeast corner
of Forsyth and the railroad. Contracts
for this purpose were closed and signed
Saturday with John w Grant. owner Of
the property.
The structure now on that site is to be
torn down and the erection of the new
building will be. in process by about Au-
gust l next. 1t will be ready for occu-
pancy by about next May. The Journal
has taken a lease .or % years with the
option of purchase at an agreed price.
which option it expects to avail Itself OF.
Plans are now being designed by Nor
gan & Dillon, The Journals architects,
which will mae tie new building espe-
cially adapted to The Journals uses Ii
is expected that they viii make tour
of the United States to gather from he
greatest newspaper plants in the entire
country ideas that make The Journal
building a model OF the combined
strength and facility OK the most modern
structures of this kind.
The building will be six or seven stories
of ferro-cOncrete construction. absolute
" fire-proof with concrete floors. walls
and roof and partitions. Each floor will
have an area of approximately 300
square feet with total area of something
like 6O,COO square feet.
WILL FRONT 1O2 FEET.
The building will front 102 feet on North
Forsyth and run back IS feet to a 1a-foot
alley in the rear. 1t is rart of the gen
eral plan to build a passagewa:ks~9m For
syth street over the railroad light OF
way to Broad street similar to the one
. now extending from Whitehall yiad'ict 70
Broad street bridge. so that Forsyth and
Broad streets will be connected in the
same way that Broad and Whitehall
streets nov are. This depends &only upcn
the consent of the N, c. and g. l. rail-
road lessees of the Western and Atlantic
railroad. The matter has already been
presented TO President ]. W. Thomas, OF
the ", Z. & st. l., and 1t is hoped that
his consent win be obtained. Permission
has already been granted by the only
other property holder concerned--Mrs
Hodgson, who owns the property front
ing on Broad street and extending back 10
the 12-foot alley mentioned. Ultimately
1t is expected the passageway viii he ex-
tended along the south side of tho AusteII
building to the W. & A. terminal yards.
ADVANTAGES OF LOCATION.
The advantages which the new Journal
building will enjoy from its location are
evident. 1t will command the full bene-
fits incident to the great Developments
now under way IN the North forsytn 'dis-
trict. 1t will stand in the vicinity of the
new postoff1ce and will be within easy
distance of both the terminal station ano
the union depot Through North Forsyth
street. II will be in direct communicates
with that rapidly growing quarter OF
Peachtree street marked by the Gambler
building.
Its position on the railroad with an
ample alley in the rear will make posi-
BILE the easy unloading of paper and other
freight delivery into The Journal ware
house.
On three sides the building will have
window space so that it will be splendidiy-.
lighted and ventilated. Its unusually COM
modious dimensions will offer a number
of stores and offices for the public gem
orally as we'll as for The Journal force.
Every floor and Office will be equipped
with the most up-to-date convenienees.
In arrangement and equipment the
building will be modern in every detail
There will be elevators and every other
device for the convenience of the general
public and The Journal force. Negotia-
lions for the building have been In pro-
gress for six months past. They have now
been contaminated