Arizona republican., 1911-04-28
BUILDING
PROJECTS
Plans For New Lodging
House on Gregory Site
MADISON ST. RESTAURANT
Cold Storage Company Will
Add New Wing Corner
Second and Adams -Mog- |
nett Lot Will Probably |
] Be Improved.
MADISON ST. RESTAURANT

The way people are undertaking new
enterprises and talking abou. others,
especially in the way of building pro-
jects in the business district, is most
encouraging. The Republican has re-
Gently mentioned two or three and al
most daily others are heard Of
The firm of Fox & Folk, which had
a restaurant in the Gregory house that
burned less than two weeks ago, has
cleaned up the part of the building the
restaurant occupied and which was
not badly burned and again have their
business going. This is only a tenn
porary arrangement, however. to keep
their help employed and hold their
patronage together, for meantime they
have built a new brick building which
will be ready for occupancy in a day
or two, and which will shortly house
the restaurant permanently.
This new building is on Madison
street alongside the Madison house and
is 36x6O feet in size. It is only one
story and is not the most pretentious
structure in the world, but it IS a good
one and will nicely serve the purpose
of its owners. And it was built on
short notice and without any buster
That's the way people are doing i'm
Phoenix now. When they want a
house they build it without any trump
citing.
There will be greater interest in the
old Gregory house property, which
stands on Washington street, a mere
useless wooden shell, since the fire.
and too badly burned for repair 1t
is annOEced that the owner, Barney
Kersting, expects to clear the lot at
an early day and during the summer
put up a good substantial brick lodging !
house in its place. 1t will be two stories |
high; in fact practically three stories !
if the present plans are carried out as
Mr.. Kersting proposes to present some |
ing new in the way of a roof garden" |
for sleeping purposes. Just what this |
third story will amount to is not stated. |
but it will be some kind of an open |
story for dormitory purposes where the /
greatest possible maximum of mid |
night summer breeze and a minimum /
of possible summer storms will be |
available.
The plans for this building are not
completed, but it is known that the
project is under consideration and has
50 far advanced that a lease of it has
been offered TO Billy Fox, Y no con-
Quoted the former lodging house
Another certain construction is on
the corner of Second and Adams
streets. diagOnally across from The Re-
publican office. The sixty feet between
the corner and the cold storage plant
is owned by the latter, which proposes
To erect a brick building in conformi-
ty with the twO-stOry structure is now
occupies. for the accommodation of its
expanding business. Mention Of the
size Of the cold storage plant
was made a few days ago but at the
time it was. not announced that the
building would be enlarged.
That will leave a vacant lot between
the cold storage building and the
Thayer warehouse, owned by F. VI.
Mognett 1t is reported, though not
authoritatiyely. that a building will be
erected on that lot during the present
summer. That will make the south
side Of Adams street between First and
Second a solid block, the fourth block
in the whole city to be entirely built
up on its four sides.