The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-20
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS
Hull Street, in Old Man
chester, Gets Square
in the Limelight.
INVESTORS RIGHT
ON GOOD GROUND
Greater Richmond Development
Company Opens Up Monu-
ment Avenue Park-Big Do
ings This Week-Activity
in All the Charming b.
Suburbs. i

The activity In the real estate
world. SO far as that little world is
conHned to Richmond and the suburbs
was very great the past week Tho
real estate agents were very reticcnt.
some or them were ready to vow most
solemnly that they had done little or
nothing, but all the same | knew that
there had been something doing, and
A great deal of it,
For instance there were all kinds
OF activity over in South Richmond.
and happen to know that very nearly &
}oooOOO worth of property changed.
hands over there. Much of 1t was Hull <
street ground, and not less than Ave
agents were interested in tho deals,
but all or them were as silent as the
tomos, In fact when approached for
particulars. There were not less than
three big buyers OF Hull Street prop &
erty. and they were c. T.. Sauer, ri. 81 =
Wallerstein and n side bidder whose
name Is In the vocative. but he is
supposed to be Broad street retail
dealer in somcthing-shocs or Eroce-
ries, perhaps. All tho same. the thraa
bought great deal OF nun Street
dirt, and evidently they know pretty
Well what they were doing. Some of
the ground bought has no houses on
1t. but tho presumption is that there
VIII be some building there very soon
some rather dilapidated buildings, and
the presumption is that the same Will
be torn down and up-todate or DOWN
to-datc structures erected in their
stead. 1t looks much rs it there is
going 10 be some right good Improves
ments in South Richmond ere long,
and that is mighty good sign of the
times South Richmond especially
run street. needs some better struc-
lures, and some better structures viii
pay the builders and owners of tho
same If they only knew It, Thus 1t
comes about that dear old Manchester.
or south Richmond. as 1t now is got
| very much In the lmeiight last week,
so far as real estate doings we're con-
cerned
In West End.
Also In the lmelight was that part
OF suburban Richmond known as the
territory beyond the Boulevard ,Dhis
description is very general. but 10
particularize II may be said that evcry-
thing beyond the Boulevard to tho di-
rcction of the setting sun was VERY
active. In the regions that look around
the Byrd Park country. along Wallace
street and Mulberry and the other
streets 'nat centre or terminate in that
park region there was a great deal OF
activity One man tells mo that he
thinks not less than a 100000 worth
OF vacant property was bought and
sold in that region last week. or course
he meant that a good deal OF trading
and swapping was involved in these
deals, but all the same the transact
tons showed that great deal OF
business was really going on
The Greater Richmond Company.
Ana talking about this West Rich
mond doings there is to be a West Rich
mond development that entirely disre-
cards the mandates OF the Richmond.
ri fl.s htYr n
which has in effect said that there can
be no Greater Richmond development
beyond certain lines laid down and
specified by the aforesaid railway com
pany. but, let il be understood ono
little old railroad can't run Richmond
| The Greater Richmond Realty Com
pany seems to have a very different
idea from that OF the railway. and this
company went TO work accordingly
In the first place the company bought
up whole lot OF land beyond the
present city limits and opened UP
site for city development just as IL
they had never heard OF the obstruc-
tive and destructive ideas OF the rail-
way company. The railway company
may hold off city development for
! little while but this kind OF thing
can be of only short duration. Rich
mond is going to grow.
| The Greater Richmond Development
SoHlpa!lS, OF Whlcn w. ;. Greasy Is
| the leading spirit, bought up the Chan
/ tilla farm a mile or two just out from
the city limits to the westward and
| they have dubbed 1t the Monument
| Avenue Park, and a good name they
| have given IT, The purchase takes in
good many acres, which. being sub
! divided into town or city lots makes
! about a thousand OF the city lots Of
tho average size. These lots arc beyond
! the present city limits, but only about
( a minute and half by automobile. and
| five or ten minutes by walk from the
( real city limits
| The company Is going to have n big
/ sale tomorrow CMondayl. a private
( sale not an auction sale mind you.
and at that time they will have on
{ exhibition all kinds of lots and front
/ ages and things. And they will have
( on exhibition all kinds of photographs
j to show even the most unsophisticated
| just the kind OF big things this coun-
I try has produced.
thinking History.
! am told that OF the very MANY
! lots that will be on cxhibbtion that
/ day not less than half have already
! been selected by Investors and home
/ makers VINO believe in Greater Rich
I mond development am told that
l within the borders of the territory from
/ which lots are to be selected there
i have already been spoken for not less
! than hundred and forty lots
! To-Morrow's Doings.
/ Mr.. Greasy tells me that on to-mor.
/ row his company will have at The
I disposal OF customers and wouldsba
customers and investigators generally
( a dozen or more automobiles The cars
/ viii run from the company's Offices al
Tenth and Main Streets 10 the grountis. ~
and tho company's Offices. 6sS american.
| National Bank Building. phone Mon.s
roe e5l. viii be ready at a nfomryt,s "
warning TO have car at the sssyicsl