The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-13
'J0BB|NG TRADE
MOVES WESTWARD
Richmond Dry Goods Company
Closes Deal for New Seventh
Street Home.
BUYS EXPORT LEAF PLANT
Will Construct Modern Four
Story Building at Cost of
$75,OOO

Under property transfer recorded
yesterday In the Chancery Court. tho
Pocahontas Building Company becomes
the owner OF the building at Seventh
and Cary Streets, formerly occupied
by the Export Leaf Tobacco Company
The prico named in the deed Is $685.
900.
With the fling OF the deed comes
the announcement that the Richmond
Dry Goods Company will begin at an
early date the removal OF the old
building now occupying that site and
the construction upon 1t OF modern
fourstory building. to which 1t Will
move It's wholesale dry goods business
as soon as 1t is completed. The deal
has been under way for some time, and
was formally closed yesterday
Plans for the new building, which
will cost about $4,000. are being pre-
pared by d. Wiley Anderson, and Will
soon be in shape to be submitted to the
board or directors OF the Richmond
Dry Goods Company for approval The
officers and directors OF this company
and tho Pocahontas Building Com
pany arc identical. The last named
company was formed last May as a
matter or convenience IN carrying out
the building scheme
Expand Wholesale District.
significant thing in connection
with the moving Of the Richmond Dry
Goods Company to Seventh Street Is
he slow but steady march westward
of the wholesale and jobbing inter-
ests. A new wholesale house has only
recently invaded the block on Main
Street between Ninth and Tenth
u.
Company goes still farther west. and
in it's new building Will mark the en-
trene OUTPOST of the downtown whole
sale district
II am not prepared to say that the
wholesale district will ever move much
further west than 1t is now" said Pres
ident f. b. Sydnor, of the Richmond
Dry Goods Company, last night. AT
least the movement will not be marked
for a long time. We were compelled
TO go west because we found 1t i'm
possible to secure the space we needed
at or near our present location. The
same difficulty will probably confront
other houses sooner or later"
Mr.. Sydnor said that while designs
for the new building are still In the
formative stage, the new structure will
be OF modern fireproof construction and
Will include the mos, approved light
ing and safety appliances. The build
ing Will he constructed IN an l. FORM
and will front eighty-five feet on
Seventh Street and 200 feet on Cary
Street. The total floor area will be
about $4,000 square feet
To BUILD Within Yenr.
Without assigning n definite date for
the beginning of the improvements Mr.
Sydnor gave it as his opinion that the
new building Will be complete. and the
company installed in it's new home by
this time next year. The property ac-
CURED yesterday fronts 165 feet on
Seventh Street and 200 feet on Cary
Street. or the Seventh Street frontage
n seventy fve-foot portion. with a
depth of about 90 feet said Mr.. Sydnor,
Will probably he sold off.
The new building will have a main
entrance on Seventh Street, and traffic
entrances on Cary Street. The latter
will be so built as to permit the en-
trance of teams within the building for
purposes Of loading and unloading.
eliminating the sidewalk obstruction
from which much of Cary Street sur
fcrs.