Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26
RAIL FRONTAGE:
To BE SOLD At
AUCTION
Stocks Property, Between Nelson
and Peters, Beside Three
Tracks, to Go on Block.

The best available railroad frontage
in Atlanta and SURPRISING in quality
of location the vast majority of that
which is not available, will be offered
at auction under the direction of Ed
win p Ansley on or about December
10.
The property is that of +. NJ.
Stocks 1t is between the Nelson
street and the Peters street viaducts,
facing Nelson street and three sub
Jointly by the Southern Railway and
the Atlanta Birmingham and Allan
tic, in the midst of the Atlanta Ter
minal district, and within two to five
minutes of every point of vantage de
sired by the modern manufacturing
concern,
Four lots are to be sold, beginning
at the corner of Nelson and Man
gum streets. The corner lot fronts
AT feet on Nelson street with a
depth on the outside line of 121.5
feet. Each of the other lots has a
frontage of 80 feet on Nelson street,
with a depth ranging from 1899 to
1915 feet.
Sig Building Going Up.
Adjoining these lots is the proper
ty of the Investment Company of the
South, which is to be developed ana
placed on the market
When the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic Railroad changed its right
of way for its main line. as the re-
suit of contract with the Southern
Railway, the Southern Investment
Company leased from the A, b. & A.
the railroad frontage it was to have
used, and it is upon this tract that
the three splendid service tracks,
jointly controlled by the two systems,
are located.
1t was a specific part of the lease
contract that the Southern Invest
ment Company should at once erect
a siX-story concrete building on d
part of its property, a lot $50 by
1915, fronting on Nelson street and
these service tracks. Work on this
building will begin January /. Ten
ants for it already have been OBJ
tanned.
Splendid Shipping Facilities.
From the three service tracks it is
possible to start carload of freight
to reach any point in the United
States, Canada or Mexico.
But this property presents other
advantages from the standpoint of
the manufactures and shipper almost
too many to enumerate. 1t is right
in the heart of the city, in the thick
Of the rapidly filling up Terminal
district, from which can be seen at
a sweeping glance more than $50
100000 worth of Atlanta business
property.
1t has quick street car service and
employees residence sections are
close at hand. 1t is but a few hun
dred yards from the team tracks of
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Allan
tic and the Southern Railway, also
the Central of Georgia; the main ex-
press office and parcel post stations
at the Terminal are less than five
minutes away, where. after working
right up to train time, the busy man
can reach his train fer almost any
point.
1t is downhill all the way from this
property into the heart of the city,
making wagon deliveries easy, and it
is close to the old Southern depot.
where there will soon be laid out one
OF the most extensive systems of team
tracks in the city furnishing space
for 285 cars with 43foot driveWays
between the tracks.
These are a few of the splendid
advantages in connection with the
stocks property.