Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03
TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Rapid Progress Being Made on Three
Big New Buildings.
FIGURES ON OMAHA REALTY
Values for Best Retail Corners,
Frontage on Best Streets and So
Forth, as Estimated by
Publicity Bureau

The three new big buildings under actual
construction in Omaha are progressing
rapidly. In particular work is being
speeded on the Brandeis theater. the main
walls Of which are within nineteen feet
OF the top, which Is ninety-two feet above
the basement floor. The stage walls will
go up ten feet more. Work Of putting In
steel for the annex is also going on
rapidly.
The Brandeis theater is a larger affair
than the casual observer believes. For
one thing an unfinished building always
looks smaller than a complete one, and
for another, the building as now seen in
ciudes the auditorium only. The lobby will
be within the annex walls. The seating
capacity Of the new house is to be l,65O-15O
less than at Boyd's. The difference comes
because the gallery and balcony will not
run so far back. space being utilized for
a lobby for each.
Architect and contractors alike believe
that the theater will be finished on time.
The III footings Of reinforced concrete,
which will support as many columns OF the
new Douglas county court house are In
place. The steel for columns and girders
is being loaded at Columbus, Ind, and
will be here shortly. The tedious part OF
early construction for this building is done
and the steel can pb AloAaiCd WIN NNAo6
ing rapidity.
Footings are to be laid at once for the
columns, which will support the sixteen
stories Of the City National bank building.
These footings number forty and forty
nine columns will rise from them. The
work on this new building is also being
speeded up and rapid progress may con-
fldently be looked for.
The real estate exchange heard an in
teresting exposition last week of the plans,
purposes and achievements of the park
board, but unfortunately the debate on
the strike which came later drove most of
the facts out OF the hearers minds. lnas-
much as contrary statements have been
made as to what the exchange did on the
matter, the facts may be explicitly stated.
The vote on the particular arbitration
proposition of the committee was ID to
s against it. What happened before was as
this: &c. A. Benson had offered q motion
that it is the sense of the exchange that
arbitration is desirable and that we now
proceed to act on the report Of the COM
mittee." Following much hectic debate
President Robbins put the motion that is
TO say, the second half Of 1t. Some
members thought they were voting on the
whole and some on the second half. AS
put the motion carried. So there you are.
An unkind scoffer has lately risen to
inquire when the exchange will settle the
Peary-Cook controversy.
The bureau Of publicity of the Com
mercial club has published the following
estimate of values of real estate, the fig
ures being given after careful inquiry:
Best retail corners, per front foot. go. So, 500
Best retail inside, per front FOOT. $500
Second best retail corners, per front
foot 1000
Second best retail inside. per front
foot OO
Frontage on best streets, five blocks
from center, per front foot........... go
Best residences, per foot front.......... 100
Good residence, per foot....."........ 30
Fifty-foot lots, on grade, near motor,
two to three miles from center of
city TO 5N
Brick residence rental property offered on
10 per cent to u per cent basis.
j. w. Hayward has sold to Rosie NJ
Beard fifty feet at Twenty-eighth and
jackson streets for 1880. A lot near Sew
enteenth and Charles has been sold to r.
B.. Porter by John Swanson for 5000. S.
p. Bostwick has bought Of A. G. Pinker-
ton a lot in Kilby Place for $500, and A.
/. Reed has sold to IgnatE MuskovitE the
northwest corner Of Twenty-fifth and Chi
cago streets for 5000.
Allen Koch has sold to Jennie Dyer q
double brick house at TWsnty-sevOnth and
Dewey avenue for sl3,50o. Rosa L. Abra-
ham has disposed Of the corner at Twenty
thirS and California to o. N. Duse foI
eTO nOn