The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-08-04
Which Way Is q .
CITY TO GROW.
Elizabeth City Has Got IL.
Find More Room For
Business Somehow 'e

EllZdDctll lily ID up dSduiot
it for room for commercial 4,
development. Every desirable
store in town is rented and
dozens of concerns are clam
oring for store space and no
where to go. ~
The Atlantic & Pacific tea stores,
seeking three stores in Elizabeth
City have had to be content with
one small store on North Pojndex,
ter st. out of the main shopping dis.
trict. The Pendcr Stores have
tried in vain to get Main st. los &
cation in addition to their Water st.
store. The Piggy Wiggly Storesa
have been waiting for months for an
opening. iti.6fs
The Carolina Real Estate Agency
has a number of out-of-town cOnr
Germs clamoring for Elizabeth City Z
store space. A Southern woman who
operates chain of successful cafes !,
terias is anxious to locate an up-to-
date cafeteria in Elizabeth City, but
can't get a location. A merchant N
Greenyille. y. c. is anxious to come 4
in with n big general store, No I
room for him. The United Cigar
Stores are ready to locate here, but
can find no suitable stand. a.,'sAl
The proprietor of one Of the most
enterprising department stores ini
the state has been trying to get Q ~
store here for several years. He has
never received any encouragement. s
There are still others who wouldt'
be glad to invest here and there are
local merchants ready to build, but
they can't get the property to build
on. There is the Bradford proper
ty on Main, Poindexter, Fearing and
McNIorrine SITS. but it is still in IL y
tigation and not available. G.. II.
Robinson has two desirable lots on
Fearing ST.: one on the corner Of
Water st and one occupied by the
Electric Light Co., corner of Poin-s \
dexter st. But the e. II. Robinsonsf
Go. contcmplates building on. ths1)
Water and Fearing SITS, site and the
Masonic fraternity has in mind tak-'d
ing the Poindexter and Fearing ST.
corner for a Masonic Temple some
day. That temple should be built
now and store space provided on the 5
ground floor. And if the {. II. Rob-
inson Co. could be persuaded to
build the proposed new store for
their wholesale dry goods business
now. that would make room on their
present Water st. site for other (.
stores Ia
But bankers are afraid to build
new stores that might let out-of-s
town merchants into the local feld.s
Let a banker talk about building %
new store and some local merchant
who is having things his own way.
will threaten 10 take his account out
of the bank right away.
But Elizabeth City has got to find
room for more business. The town
is growing and the back country
from which we draw our support Isl
growing in wealth and populations.
Elizabeth City needs modcra hotel.
an auditorium, cafeteria, big
bakery and there is room for more
and better stores of several ikindy
Elizabeth City has got to make room
for these things sooner or later.
Elizabeth City has got to open up
one or more new business streets.
Shall business be pushed on up sMaiif
ST.. expanding before the slow re-
treat of residential property own.
crs, or shall Fearing or Matthews
streets be developed as main bust
ness thorofares? Elizabeth City may
as well begin to think about it; Eiiz.
abcth City must make room ,forl
more business.