Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-23
Edgewood Ave. Lot
Sold for $4,000;
Plaza Plan Doomed
Four-story Building Later To BE
Erected - Covering for Railroad
Tracks-W. Peachtree Widening.

The southeast corner of Edgewood
avenue and Decatur street, 70 by SO
feet, changed hands Thursday, the
buyers being ]. H. Ewing and DR..
G. F. Benson, the seller r. c. Bosche,
and the price 100000 or $429 a front
foot. figured by the Edgewood avenue
frontage.
The new owners announced that
they would erect a four story bust
ness building, though not at the pres
ent time. There is a frontage of 100
feet on Boaz street. The property Is
Improved with stores which rent for
SLY month. Smith & Ewing han
died the transaction.
West Peachtree Widening.
Every property owner on West
Peachtree has signed up for widening
that thoroughfare the entire length
from southern to northern junction,
according to information given out
Thursday. The matter was taken UP
during the afternoon with the Streets
Committee of Council, and favorable
report is expected. The expense is to
be borne by the property owners
West Peachtree is now only about
80 feet from curb to curb and prop
that 1t would have to be widened now
Spring street Is due to be cut
through to Brookwood, and having no
car line, will claim a large share of
PeGchtree traffic. Activity on the
part of Spring street property owners
has acted as a spur to West Peach
tree property owners who realize that
they must do something in the way of
widening II they are to get their
share of vehicular traffic.
Expressions of approval have been
heard on all sides in business cir
cles over the revival Of the project to
bridge the railroad tracks in the CEN
ter of town with a superstructure to
cost S1,500,000, including a combina-
ton office building and new passen-
ger station. Dozens Of property own
ers declared that they would con-
tribute literally, and many people
who would not be directly benefited
asserted that they likewise stood
ready to help in this, the city's most
ambitions engineering undertaking.
Although there were many sugges-
tons as to the best mode of pro-
cedure, the sentiment was unanimous
that the improvement is one that
will be alike beneficial to the city and
to the State.
Spring Street Viaduct, Too.
Revival of interest in the Bleckley
Plaza plan has followed close on the
heels of, a movement to build a via
duct from the base of Spring street
to the Terminal Station district and
to extend Spring street to Brookwood
as a help in relieving Peachtree con-
gestion, and it is believed that the two
projects will be carried on together.
Three years ago this scheme was
first agitated and it found cordial sup
port. Such men as Samuel M. In
man, J. K. Orr, Captain James w.
English, Robert F. Maddox and Colo
mel Robert J. Lowry Endorsed 1t In
glowing terms The idea, roughly
stated, was to drop the railroad tracks
several feet and cover them with q
concrete plaza which should extend
from Washington street on the east
to Spring street on the west. and to
extend a runway from Forsyth street
to Madison avenue to pick up traffic
from the Terminal Station. A new
union station was to be built at For
syth street, and the old one utilized
as a city market. The project con-
templates that the railroads enter
ing the Union Station will put on
electric engines at the city limits and
not only eliminate the noise of steam
engines. but do away with the smoke