The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-09
ect a 100000 building.


Construction authorized in Orlando
the first eight months of this year to-
/ tailed $1,30l 1923. as against 1924, 735
for the same period in 1920, and
SG33,G73 for the entire year of 1919.
Lakeland permits for the first eight
months of the year have averaged
100000 a month, and there seems to
/ be no decrease in building operations.
I ON the contrary. the fall season seems
10 be bringing an increase in the num-
Der of homes erected The big item on
this years building list 50 far is the
plant of the Federal Ice Co., listed
at 100000
Permits issued at Palm Beach and
West Palm Beach during the last six
~ days aggregated more than $500 -
Goa. Of which Palm Beach furnished
S3lS.SH0. The largest item on the list
Of either city this year was "A permit
for a SOL 600 residence for Charles f.
Harding Of Boston on the ocean front.
Permits in Clearwater in August in
Guided seven one-stOry and two two
story dwellings, and one business
structure. Building has been active in
the PinellaS' county seat all of the
year, with prospects that the fail and
winter will see more construction
than any similar periods in the his
tory the city
The Seventy-nine permits issued at
Pensacola provided for eighteen new
buildings at a total cost of $3S. 900.
while the others were for private ga
RACES. repairs and construction of a
minor character.
( gainesville is another Florida city
which apparently is devoting its en-
orgies to the building of homes. with
business structures occupying a minor
part.
/ Construction authorized in ITALIA
( hassee included a planning mill, dry
kiln and an office building. six new
/ residences and minor structures.
The triple cities of Daytona. Day
iona Beach and SeabreeZe have issued
permits for nearly $1,250,000 worth OF
now construction since the first of the
! year. DaytOna contributing 1898. $50.
| SeabreeZe $416.S 500 and Daytona
/ Beach $290.000 A feature of the con
I StructiOn program is the IIeisen pre-
! icct at Seabreeze, which at present in
/ cludes plans for seventeen residences.
five to cost $6.500 each. five of 81, 800
four of $500. and three of $50 900
each. Before these seventeen homes
are completed work will begin on
( eleven more the entire project to in
/ volve approximately 100000.
Buildings completed or nearly com
I plcted in Ocala during August were
valued at approximately $225, 900. but
this was in excess of the amount OF
new construction authorizd during
/ month OAt f,,;,
Il building record department, and it
is impossible to compile an accurate
list Of new work proposed. The largest
Of the new projects completed was the
new dormitory at the State Industrial
School for Girls, which cost $4,000
Leesburg reported more than $780,
600 worth of new construction in Lees
burg and Lake county during the last
few months, and from all sections
come reports of unprecedented activ-
ity in building. From Miami to Jack
sonyille, on the east coast, contractors
are bending every effort to finish work
now under way in order that they
might begin construction of other
buildings. Central Florida is a ver-
liable beehive of industry in building,
and south Florida and the peninsula
Hull coast nave put to work every
man who can WELD hammer and
saw. Small towns which for years
nave seen only occasionally the build
ing of residence or business struc-
ture, an event that was heralded in
the weekly newspaper as a bit of
big news, are now spreading out
over the surrounding territory and
forcing the municipal authorities to
open new streets in order that access
to new homes might be obtained.
Bankers and others throughout the
state who recognize the effect upon
the community of citizens owning
their own homes are laying great
stress upon the fact that the greater
part Of the construction in Florida
this year has been devoted to dwell
ing houses, and regard it as an indica-
ton that the population of the state
is growing by leaps and bounds. liter
ally forcing the building of homes