Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-25
ACTIVE BUILDING
OPERATIONS START
Athletic Club, Hotel and Bust
ness Buildings Will Boom the
Commercial District.
DEVELOPMENT is SWIFT

With bids on the 100000 new Ath-
letic Club building for Omaha to be
asked for shortly after April |, an
other of the big building jobs con,
templated for Omaha this year will
soon get under way. More than
100000 worth OF the S375,0OO bond
issue of the Omaha Athletic club
have already been sold, it is an
nounced by Burns & Brinker. who
have the selling Of the bonds, and the
campaign to sell them has not yet
definitely started. The bond hrm an
nounce that in all probability prac-
tically all OF the $375,000 issue will be
bought up by Omaha and Nebraska
investors.
Plans are also practically complete
for the ten or twelve-story hotel
building which is to be built by the
syndicate headed by Harry Wolf, on
the corner of the present Schlltz
hotel.
New Business District.
The Athletic Club building, the new
hotel building on the Schlitz corner,
together with the contemplated
Ofchard-Wilhelm bedding between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth, on How
ard: the Burgess-Nash addition on
the Boyd theater site, and contem-
plated building of seven or eight
stories OH the northwest corner Of
Seventeenth and Howard streets. VIII
give Omaha FIVE exceptionally fine
new structures in the immediate bust
ness section this year within a radius
OF ono and half or two city blocks.
A better idea OF how these five hand
some business structures will flock
into the immediate business section
Of the city may be obtained when at
tention is called to the fact that four
OF them will be within one block from
the court house. and the other will
be barely two blocks from the court
house.
And this little reference to i'm
mediately prospective development in
the heart OF the retail district does
not even take into consideration the
coming twclve-story telephone build
ing three blocks from the court house;
nor does it haze reference to prac-
tically dozen fine structures that
have gone up in the last year and a
half or two years within two or three
block from the court house, consid-
cred as a pivotal point from which to
view the development. /.
Some New Ones.
Here are some OF them, Just by
way OF review: Grain Exchange
building, one block from court house;
Fontenelle hotel, one block; Sanford
hotel, one and half blocks; First
National Bank building, one block;
United States National Bank build
ing, one block; Rose building, one
block; Saunders Kennedy building,
one and onc-half blocks; Brandcis
power house, two and one-half blocks;
World-Herald building. two blocks;
Castle hotel, two blocks.
Outside this immediate limit OF the
retail center building activities are
also daily humming.
The contract has just been award.
ed TO the Westinghouse Church. Kerr
company OF New York to build the
100000 power plant for the Union
Pacific shops at Eighth and Cass
streets. Work has already started.
Carl A. Johnson has been awarded
the contract to build $4,000 apart
ment house for Mrs. P, Mahrens at
the corner OF California street and
Lincoln boulevard.
The Nurses Deaconess home and
chapel for the Emmanuel Dcaconess
institute is to cost $4,000, and pre-
liminary plans are made.
Ground is being broken for the
$4,000 apartment house for II. d.
Frankfurt at Thirty-ninth and Dewey
avenue.
Bids are being taken by Margolin
Bros. for a $4,000 apartment house
they will build at Twenty-fourth and
Parker streets.
Work is in progress on the Coils
Products company buttermilk meal
factory at Ninth and Dodge streets,
a plant to cost $4,000.
The work on $4,000 garage for
R. NJ. Harris is being pushed be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth on
Harvey street.
William Redgwick has been award.
cd the contract to build the $4,000
addition to the Methodist Episcopal
hospital at Thirty-ninth and Cunning
Streets.
John H. Hartc has the contract tc
build the $4,000 addition to the ]