The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-28
PLANNING NEW worn
DURING QUIET WEEK !.
REAL ESTATE MEN GETTING LxNUo
LAID FOR BIGGER
BUSINESS.
ANNEXATION IS TOPIC
SEE DECIDED IMPROVEMENT N
LOCAL SITUATION AS RESULT.
FIFTEENTH STREET
WIDENING.
ANNEXATION IS TOPIC

While there was not much dono
during the last week in the way Of
actual real estate transferring, realty
men Of Richmond found the week one
Of the most Interesting in months ~
the agents tried to keep cool under
their electric fans, they talked annex
alton, Every probable effect upon
what is now suburban property ana
what will be city property when aIl-
nexation becomes operative was dis
cussed and eVen before the decision OF
the caurt came giving the city 81
Richmond practically all the territory
1t had asked. number of them had
planned for the futures dealings In
such of this new city property as =
tn their hands
The realty men are almost as a unit
In believing that the decision rnade
YESTERDAY will have A decided effect
on the realty business Of the future.
enhancing values as the necessary
city i'm provements are made from time
to time
Important Development
An important happening during this
week was the laying of a new propo-s
sitien for the widening Of Fifteenth
street before the council committees
on bridge approaches. The matter
was referred by the committee to
subcommittee and a report is ex-
peeted during the coming week The
proposition was placed before the
committee through j. Thompson
Brown & Co, representing a large
majority of the owners of property
on the street to be widened
This proposition, If adopted. said
Captain Leroy Brown yesterday after
neon, will. mean that the city will save
Jsr~. ~ y7ns%
! the cost of the condemnation pr ,seed-
ings which he'd been proposed
For Trolley Loop.
A strip Of land forty feet wide Fl ON
Main street TO Dock, along Fifteenth
street, was offered 70 the city. An-
ether interesting feature of the prppo-
sItion. and one which is looked upon
generally with favor, is that a single
track shall he laid in Fifteenth street,
making a loop with the Fourteenth
street tracks of the Hull street line.
and bringing cars almost to the Main
street station, putting travellers at tbs
depot without transfer.
The imp ovement of Fifteenth
street along the lines suggested in tbs
new proposition will. u Is neneyet, aid
In the forging of another link in the
building OF Shockoe Valley improve
-nents.
The week just ended has not been
No dEINe kLS EiE tpESS e3Eil1F We6A4
In June, in the matter of renting TOR
tine fall movings. Rentals have. how
ever. been fairly active Much OF this
signing Of leases Is no more than =
renewal of leases held during the pro-.
ceding year, as many families ara go
ing to remain in the houses they nov
occupy.
I The fall moving will not. 1t is now.
Indicated, be as great as was believed
/ a month ago.
( larger In-Cfty Field Opens.
4 a large number Of the real es*AtA
men are turning their attention to this
enlarged city field and already do
veIopments within the new Corporate
limits are being planned. that propert@
owners may be ready 10 turn i.r0$
considerable money between now ma
the day that annexation becomes e3sS
fective. and Immediately after.
The call for farm lands in yirginta
has not been so heavy as In recent
weeks, but the iuii is due. 1t III bA~s
lieved, to the extreme heat that hess
prevailed during the last ten days. u
Every indication is for increased4
business during the late summer ana
early fall months and the. preSeu4s
let-up is a welcome one To agents who
anticipate the busy months ahead.