The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-27
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS
Unusually Active Week.
Activities Largely
in Suburbs.
PHENOMENAL SALE
OF SUBURBAN LOTS
Monument Avenue Park Gets
Squarely in Limelight-Jack-
son Monument May Go Right
There-Other Suburbs Bob
Up Serenely-Good Bust
ness Downtown.


the real estate business during the
week that closed with the stroke OF
12 last night ! speak of that stroke
advisedly, for am Informed that some
trades and deals and sales that were !
on the string hung over for final con-
summation long after the accepted sat
urday afternoon closing hour for real
estate shops. Last night after Other |
honest men had gone 10 BED more than
one real cstatc agent was burning what
the college boys POLITICALLY refer 10 ~
the midnight OIL" and I am not sure
but that at least two right good
sized deals were closed up under ths
light shed by that KIND of oil. even
though In this twentieth century time
n Is really an electric glare. How
ever 1 could not wait for the midnight
glare to get all OF the facts. l guess
they will keep for ano.aor edition OF
The Times Dispatch. At least one deal
Of large Dimensions Was hanging IRE
when the managing editor warned ~
long after 10 o'clock that the foreman
had made the last call for my copy.
Truly ii was busy week. and all
kinds OF property changed hands. and
many were the sales that were made
but I suspect. after all, the biggest
certainly the most exciting, WORK was
done in the suburbs and the West
End.
Phenomenal Monument Avenue Park.
For instance the phenominal business
done by the Greater Eichmond Realty
Company out at Monument Avenue
Park was something worth talking
about. Up 10 carly candle ish' ias'
night the hustling agents OF that com
panv had sold about Si2 lots out OF
poesible 1890. and this was all done in
six days | don't know what they dHl
after me gas was turned on last night.
One OF the representatives of the com :
pany informs me INT the sales OF
the week foot up more than s51O,ooo,
ard before they get through. as they
may do this week the total VIII be
above 100000 This beats anything
] have ever heard OF in Richmond !
am further toId that among the pur-
chascrs, and there were not less man
400 OF them, were many people from
beyond the corporate limits OF Rich
mond There came buyers fDom tho
valley from along the banks OF the
Stauntdai and the low grounds OF the
Dan, and probably some from Inc
Beersheba neighborhood. and they 90
saw that these out of-town people wed
with the city folks as greater Richr
mond boosters. and. mind YOU they
we're not ali spectators. Many buyers
OF lots aAc home builders. and a!readS
negotiations are on with builders &c
make homes for many OF the lot buE'
ers
The lots sold all the way from sl@ &c
$50 per front foot, those on Monument
Avenue proper bringing the latter
figure.
The stoncwniI Jackson Monument.
A strong sentiment has sprung up II
favor OF making this Monument Ave
nue park the site for the proposed
monument to General Stonewall JACK
son. The Greater Richmond Realt!
Company, while not the originators o
this idea. have caught the fever AM
they have made liberal offers TO IN
Jackson Monument Association pro
posing, not only 20 donate the site 10
the monument, but to contribute 5000
in cash 10 theN monument fund Nisl
tors to the park last week saw tn
company carrying out tncir promls
OF identifying the park way rms
IA he made an exact duplicate Of IN
Leo Monument parkway. and IN addl
ton growing howss and evergreen
are TO be part of the parkway. Th
initiatory work for this improvement
was made last week while the peopl
were out there
other suburbs.
The suburban activity was NOT cor
fined to this phenomenal selling OF io'
in Monument Avenue Park. All of til
suhurbs showed decided activit
Wrights Park was right III the swim
and the agents who are carefully name
ling that property tell me mat the
found customers aplSHiS' anu ool
something over nifty home sites
neople who propose to make homes {
soou as the financial arrangement
NAV be made, and the deals with II
builders consumatcd. The beauties
Wright's Park have been set torth, al
the beautiful spring time endorses a
Of the elooucncc OF the lana agent
hence the activity at Wrights Park,
truly beautiful suburb with all kin'
of city improvements and conven
cnccs.
Gintcr Park. too. reports good
week OF business activity. That is u
old favoritc. and in the rush oil Ia
week 1T doomed up handsomely. Sc
eral deals were made out there. y
less than four homes ready for o
cunancy. were sold, and twelve 10
were sold to home builders who pr
nose to "locate" at once. The announc
ment by the Virginia Railway a.
Power Company of Improved ana
larCcd transportation and passeng
service has caused prospective hon
makers to look tendcrly TO Giptcr PAL
Laburnum Park, under the manas
ment of Cover G. Smith, has been
active section and many sales ha
been made Some of the buyers
already planning to build
The great thing about Lapurnt
park is that /. is ready for the hon
builder. and will undoubtedly build,
rapidly.
Contractors arc now figuring
sidewalks. curb and gutter constrt
ton, and this work will be started
a few days.
Forest Hill never looked lovler, n
tha agents who have a few lots a
some right handsome acreage to of
over there tell me that business W
them was good all Of last week, q
that the outlook is most promisl'