The San Francisco call., 1909-10-30
Railroads. Prepare 10 Meet Great Commerce ofpdnand Cand
ALL SHACKS WILL
SOON BE REMOVED
Temporary Structures Sup
planted by Handsome and
Modern Buildings

| tivity temporarily in first class build
| ing construction in the city. builders
and brokers alike regard this as only
temporary. The construction OF fats.
I residences. apartments and lodging
/ houses is continuing and the records
disclose some large expenditures in this
line Brokers who are engaged in deal
I ing in properties that are not in the
/ center of the city report business good
and the prospect for the erection OF a
large number of homes. showing a
steady increase in the population, TO be
/ reassuring.
The most interesting development in
the building line in the immediate fu-
! ture will be due primarily to the order
adopted by the board OF supervisors.
/ in which provision is made for the re-
moval of the shaeks that were built
| Immediately after the FIRE throughout
the fire limits. Probably the largest
number of such shaeks TO be found in
any individual district are in the
streets northward between Market
street and the bay. There are also
some shacks in Market street which
are under the Official ban and which
must be removed in a short time. No
tices to this effect have been served by
the city authorities upon the owners
NORTH OF MARKET STREET
Northward of Market street. as we'll
| as in Market street. the first signs OF
/ building activity Immediately succeed
/ ing the fire were most conspicuous
Buildings were made of himsy wooden
! construction to house Offices and also
I wholesale and retail firms. A very
large number of these have already
disappeared. and classes A. B and c
structures have taken their places Still
/, there are a great many wooden shacks
TO be removed in the lower part Of the
town.
Since attention was called by this
paper to tie exact outlines OF the dis
| trict in which shacks must be removed,
property owners have shown their ap-
/ probation of the situation in marked
/ degree. This has served TO stimulate
other property owners who have va
cant lots to make plans foF, buildings
/ of high class, which. when the shacks
/ are removed. will be less subject to
danger by fire than they would be
! otherwise
Land owners are being approached
by tenants of shacks who are inquiring
what will be done No neighborhoOd
| stands to lose business tenants 10 any
extent because the location. having be-
come we'll known. il is desirable to
continue in the same place. But better
/ quarters will be demanded. and this
will probably set on foot the cOnstruc-
tioR OF large number of new buildings
in the next two or three months The
business sites are eligibly situated. and
the owners having paying tenants nat
urally desire to keep the rents going
on.
VAN NESS AVENUE SHACKS
/ 1t was inevitable that the shacks in
| Van Ness avenue, which have paid a
! handsome income to the owners of the
realty. should be torn down whether
the supervisors had passed the order
for their removal or not. The same
/ general state of facts applies to streets
crossing Van Ness to the extent OF a
block or two on either side of that
avenue. The general removal of bust
ness in Van Ness and intersecting
streets to permanent locations and the
old retail centers of the city. threw out
of use many buildings that were Of
/ large cost. 1t was certain that the
most of them would never be used
again for business or other purposes.
Van Ness avenue has now entered de-
cidedly on it's second period of import
ance- Steel structures are in erection
in the avenue Important corners that
have stood tenantless for the last few
months have been freed of the wooden
! buildings Other wooden structures
/ that still remain idle have signs to
rent" on them. with no applicants for
their use. Notices OF removal OF shacks
| have been served on the owners Of
most of the buildings of temporary con-
structiOn between Larkin and Franklin
streets. which was the western limit oe
the shacks. generally speaking.
GAPS GROW FEWER
No one has any very definite idea of
! the exact class of buildings that wilt
succeed those about TO be demolished
( Along all the streets leading westward
from the present reconstructed retail
center new buildings are in eonstruc-
ton and the gaps occasioned by vacant
lots grow fewer each week in the ma
jority of the streets The present situ-
alton will undoubtedly hasten the de-
cisions of owners of the realty concern
ing their plans
\ The rule still obtains for better con-
struction almost without exception
succeeding the older construction in
the downtown districts. Where the
property is relatively worth less per
front foot than il is on the leading
streets the owners of realty seem In
\ clined to make their permanent inn
provements Of the better class This in
dicates that there is a large general
distribution of ready money and that
! capital only requires reassuring cireum-
stances TO tempt II to come into i'm
mediate use in the making OF improves
nients.
THE PRODUCE MARKETS
The old wholesale fruit and vezs-
| table section and that immediate re-
gfon has a dozen or more buildings in
/ construction with steel frames. and
they represent in the aggregate large
! sum of invested capital That there are
many vacant Offices in the city does not
seem to have any very serious deterrent
effect upon the building plans OF the
men OF money.
In all directions, and especially In
the ofices OF the realty brokers'. the
expression of confidence in the imme-
/ date future is much stronger than it
was even month ago One OF the most
prominent dealers in real estate in San
! Francisco says that the month of No
vember will probably be the sign for
I the beginning of new order Of things.
and that the talk of clients and his
/ own personal observation lead him TO
4 this conclusion
Spencer Buckbee Of the Arm OF Shain-
wald Buckbee & Co. says that the in
quiry for property Is better and thar
the general outlook has decidedly i'm
proved. The same statements IN sub
stance are made by B. Rich OF the arm
of A. J. Rich & Co