The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-08
PROPOSED POSTAL

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customs. Internal revenue, courts and
other government business.
The site at Eight and Main Streets.
fronting lao feet on Main. and rum
ming $50 feet on Eighth to Cary
Street, where there is frontage Of
100 feet II said to nave the approval
OF the postoff1ce and treasury depart
ments and Is looked upon as the best
available site for the construction OF
modern postofflce Of the type fav-
ored by the postoffice department..
The new postoffice will be q one
story building, having a glass roof
above the working floor, following the
lines OF other recently built postofi1ces.
The height OF the building from the
business floor would pribably be
rairty to forty feet. The plan con-
templates having the business floor on
the Main Street level An under
floor. from the Cary Street level,
would give ample space for the work
Ing of some classes Of mail. probably
including parcel post. and for the
Netter handling OF incoming and out
) going malls
This site would allow for the cut
ting out Of thirty-foot driveway I'M
rnediately west OF tho proposed build
ing and would leave = floor space OF
$4,000 square feet for the handing
of postal business. This Is $4,000
feet to each street level floor. From
the Cary-street level, would probably
he taken some $4,000 feet for wagon
boiler rooms. etc, leaving
more than $4,000 square feet OK moor
for the actual handling Of abe mails.
The location. two blocks from the
present. would tighten the difficulty
incident to moving so great an insti-
tuition - the postofice. It would be
but two blocks further distant from
the Main-street station and would be
almost at tho backdoor to Byard-
Street station, giving considerable adj
vantage in this respect.
Appropriations for tho building and
for the purchase OF the ground wiz
have to be made by the next Con-
sress IL the building Is to be given
10 Richmond in time to be Of practi-
cal use in relieving congestion at the
local postofice.
II this or some site other than that
adjoining the present building on the
east should be selected 1t will leave
open to the syndicate now ownine
that property the opportunity to put
up the proposed twenty-five story
once building at Eleventh and Main.
This would prove a big addition TO
Richmond's rapidly growing values In
the financial district.
The new postoffice will mean an ex-
penditure greater than one million
dollars. The postofice. to be used ex-
i rlus.vely for the handling OF the
postal business. would leave the Fed
err, building to take care OF other
government business. including the
Federal courts. and meet growing re-
auirenents for years to come.
Real estate men found In buifness
during the week more than they have
had during the early fall weeks. bar
gain and sale deeds In the Richmond
Chancery Court alone showing the
transfer OF about $3.50. 600, and mort
cages showing the negotiations OF
some $4,000 In loans. This borrow
ina is for purposes OF improving prop
erty in the city and suburbs and 'ndi-
Gates stronger confidence that the
present uncertain business situation
viii shortly be replaced by normal
conditions.
Owners OF property, apparently sat
isfaed with their holdings. and be-
|lievtrg also that the depression can
mot last much longer. are not inclined
liz part with their property at hard
|>imes" figures. That there has been
mo decrease In property values Is al
|once shown to the person who begins
dick ortn1