The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-08-29
BUILDING OPERATIONS IN
FLORIDA ARE BRISK
tAssOciated Press,

| Jacksonville, Aug. ZS--hepofIS /
from cities throughout the state on
the amount of new building authoriz-
ed and begun during the month of
July indicate that construction is |
keeping up the pace set during the |
first six months of the year when |
Florida led nearly if not every state
in the Union. Efforts to obtain the |
value of building permits issued in the |
principal cities and towns during July
developed that the municipal authori- |
ties in many places do not require
permits for new construction and con-
sequently had no records to show what
amount of new construction was plan
Ined.
Jacksonville led the state in July
with permits aggregating $497, ,406,
while Miami was second with $400, 200
and St. Petersburg third with $780,
800. Other cities reported as follows:
Tampa, S215,26O; West Palm Beach,
$137 ,O75; The Triple Cities (Daytona,
Daytona Beach, Seabreeze), sos, ,776;
. St. Augustine, $5O,127; Clearwater,
$50, 900, and Gainesville. S33,960.
Miami's total for the year up to
August / was s3,142,O 900 with pros
. poets for the biggest fall and winter
building program ever known The
difficulty of obtaining money has de-
layed many projects planned to begin
, earlier, but the financing of these IS
, in process. and in some cases has been
completed. The new First National
Bank building, to be 10 stories high
and to cost $3.50, 900, is one of the big
q projects to be started in the fall. The
financing of this building has been
completed and the contract let. 1t
will be street structure.
st. Petersburg permits during the
, month included fifty four residences
q and six apartments which, with alter
: ations of houses already built viii re-
Z suit in the addition of 4S0 rooms to
Y the total of the city. Indications are
y that city will experience during the
3 remainder of the year building
h boom never before witnessed there
s Permits during the. year up to Aug
8 l totalled s2,667, 1872, while those fol
& the firts six days of August alone
y amounted to $160,950.
s The 260 permits issued in Tampa
3; during July included 81 dwellings
{, valued at $113,350, and one bricl
x | r-a----A Lo.,~~x Dovx,,i+r iurY4aJ drrr
8 ing the frts six months of the yea
< numbered TIT and were valued a
z 81 1856, ,646, and contractors and realt!
y men here believe the total for the las
o half of the year will exceed thi
d amount.
s Daytona, Seabreeze and Daytoni
8 Beach are keeping pace with othe
< cities in the state in proportion Z
y their size and realty men and eontrac
VI tors believe they are just enterini
q upon a building squirt which wi
= greatly exceed that of the last 81
6 months. OF the total for July $1OSi
< IT'S, Daytona Beach contribute
= s5O,s5O; Daytona $44.325, and Sea
- breeze $13,600.
y Construction authorized IN st. Au
u gustine during July included twelv
= new residences and the remOdeling G
= a hotel while the Christian Scienc
- church was under construction Pros
. poets for the building industry IN ths
= place are brighter now than they has
" been in many eyars, according TO va
p rious authorities, who declare ths
= operations there during August WI
q boost the total for July and August
& SITE, 900.
g Sixteen permits were issued
VI Clearwater during July. While thel
81 are no large buildings included, col
"a struction has been started under pc
a mfts during the last so days: Thr'
* large houses IN the Harbor Oaks Sc
q ton averaging $4,000 each; Il
=. Dicus-Paine hotel at Stephenson
81 Point to cost around $4,000; the r
q constructed Smith building on Clev
a land street and the Jackson garag