The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

floor and still other set-backs will oc
cur on the seventeenth, twenty-secone
and twenty-fifth floors.
VIII Care for Scores of Shops.
Stores will be made available for high
class merchants on the ground floor. AND
II Is expected that the first eight floors
above will each be rented In their en-
tirety for select shops. This decision
has been reached as result OF the well
known shortage of available shop space
for the retail trade which caters to the
Fifth avenue class of shoppers and
which according to the popular demand
must of necessity be located in the i'm
mediate vicinity OF Fifth avenue and
Fifty-seventh street and since the avail
able space for stores on Fifth avenue
cannot be increased 1t has been decided
to provide floor upon floor OF stores
above the street level which will at the
Same time enjoy Fifth avenue loca-
ton. This Feature will fill not. only a
long felt want but will also enable mer-
chants to secure inexpensive space Tor
light manufacturing in part OF the
building which will front on Fiftysixtf
street and which will be built to a height
of only six stories. In that portion space
will be reserved for tenants having
showrooms in the main portion of the
building with which it will be connected
on each floor.
From the tenth floor to the thirteenth
floor the space will be divided into small
shops. The fourteenth to the twenty.
fifth floors will be rented as offices foi
large corporate and estates requiring
the exclusiveness of a Fifth avenue adj
dress and the conveniences and unob.
structed light to be found to best adj
vantage In the monumental tower, which
will be known as the Heckscher Build
Ing
Will Provide Two Arcades.
Another feature of particular interest
will be the arcade which will rur
through the block from Fifty-sixth tc
Fffty-seventh street, and at right an.
giles to this north and south arcade an.
other will run through the centre Of the
block, with an imposing entrance or
Fifth avenue. The two arcades will
thus form a large ct" On the north
and south arcade twelve small shops
or booths will be provided, which
will enable those upstairs who have
not the advantages Of street show
windows to secure display representa-.
ton on the street floor. where mer-
chandfse may be viewed by the thronBs
of shoppers. which 1t Is expected will
patronize the arcade thoroughfare.
Twelve high-powered Otis electric ele-
vators, arranged In express, local an6
freight groups, will carry the shoppers
office tenants and merchandise to the
upper floors. Special attention has also
been given to the handling Of tenants
freight, especially generous shipping
room having been provided in the base
ment Likewise, no detail has beer
overlooked in the arrangements for en-
ployees rest rooms. which will be most
complete and up-to-date.
The agents say that. even though the
building will not be completed until next
year. numerous Inquiries are being made
and interest Is being manifested on the
part of those seeking store. shop and
display space In that locality.
Judging from the plans prepared by
Warren & Wetmore. architects, the ap.
pellation, Cathedral of Commerce.
which has been so aptly applied to this
the most imposing business building or
Fifth avenue, will be amply justified
The building is being constructed by the
George Backer Construction Company
for the Heckscher Building Corporation
This new "Heckscher building will be
the sixth large Office building owned OF
controlled by August Heckscher. y