The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-01
REMARKABLEEPOCH
IN C|TY'S GROWTH
Improvement of Property in
Third South ASt0niSheS the
Most Sanguine.
MANY BUSINESS ARTERIES
DEVELOPMENT OF THOROUGH
FARES RAPID, BUT GOOD.

Nothing is more remarkable IN Salt
Lake realty circles than the wonderful
Improvement in property along Third
South street, including property lying
west OF West Temple street, and now
becoming available for business pur-
poses as the completion OF the new
Denver and Rio Grende railroad sta
ton approaches Property extending
from West Temple street eastward TO
Second East street is also in great de-
mand for new business locations.
1t is scarcely three years since Third
South street was a muddy thoToughfare
bordered with old poplar trees and
broken concrete sidewalks. The signal
for improvements was sounded when
one of the large real estate concerns
moved TO that locality from Second
SOutha nd when the Metropolitan hotel
and adjoining property was purchased
by the West Temple Realty company.
Last fall a line Of ten new stores
was erected at the corner Of West
Temple and Third South street, prac-
tically completing the block between
West Temple and Main streets. With
the erection OF the Auerbach building
at the corner of State and Third South
streets the transformation Will be COM
plete. The line Of business structures
SIS almost unbrOken from West Temple
street to a point east OF State street
and IT is known that plans are now
under way for further Improvements.
which will make Third South a met
rOpOlitan business street
Creation OF Business District.
It is difficult to estimate the effect
of the erection Of the new Auerbach
building and the new Newhouse theatre
Just south of that structure. at the cor
ner of State street and Exchange place
but it is still more difficult to eSu-
mate the effect OF the improvements to
be carried out in the block between
State and Second East and Third and
Fourth South streets. Attention has
been called to these improvements
number of times. and there has been
p great deal of comment on the results
which would follow in business way
the erection of new buildings in this
block.
Few people. however, are aware that
there is now under way a movement TO
improve the entire west side Of Second
East street from South Temple
TO Fourth South streets, and that in
small way the change OF this street
business thOroughfare has already be-
gun. 4. trip along the street with care
fUl consideration Of what is now be-
ing done there In the way Of business
improvements can hardly fail to i'm
press one with the possibility Of further
development in business structures.
The structures on Second East be-
tween South Temple and First South
streets are old and out of repair. It
will he only q short period a Z the most
when they will be pulled down to make
room for more modern structures. Just
what these structures will be can not
be known, but the ordinary observer
could make a pretty shrewd guess,
/ Judging from the kind Of buildings that
are there now. At the head of the
street on the east side are apartment
houses Near by on South Temple
Alta club. At the corner OF First
South and Second East streets is the
Masonic temple Just east OF this struc-
ture is handsome new apartment
house on one side Of the street and the
business structures connected with the
undertaking establishment OF Joseph
W. Taylor. Just east of Second East
are a number Of business structures
which have been there for several
years. Recently the remainder of the
space has been filled in with new struc-
lures for business purposes. or is being
filled in since the new building at the
corner Of Second East and First South
streets was only started last week
New Mercantile Center.
glance down the street discovers
the new StratfOrd hotel. with the new
garage Of the Studebaker company at
the corner Of Second South street. and
large vacant lot offered for sale for
business purposes directly opposite A
third corner OF the streets is occupied
by business properties already. and the
fourth corner contains a church. with
an apartment house just south of it.
Vacant property and old buildings
occupy most OF the space between Sec
ond and Third South streets.
With knowledge of the encroachment
OF business on Second East street
therefore. and the work that IS TO be
done in the block below Third South
street, it does not require q very astute
observer to guess that the street Will
be given over almost entirely to bust
ness within year or two. The cree
ton of the Newhouse building was in
tended TO fix a new business center at
Exchange Place and Main street. The
result is near contamination. The COM
pletion of the new Denver & Rio
Grande depot has caused Third West
10 leap into tremendous prominence as
n business thorOughfare The gradual
development of the business section.
however, is pushing business houses
eastward to Second East street.
Only a short time ago there were
complaints that Salt Lake City might
be suspected Of being a one-street city.
It iii be only a year or two at the
most when the city will have four main
business streets, viz: West Temple
Main, State and Second East streets
besides the cross streets, including
First, Second. Third and Fourth South
with intermediate streets at different
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