Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-01-16
Year Breaks All Records
for Building Up Great
State
MIAMI LEADS IN WORK
Expected That 1922 to
Be as Large in New
Projects

Jacksonville, Jan. l6.-Construc-
ton in Florida during 1921 easily ex-
ceeded the. $780, 100000 mark, accord
ing to building material men and
financial interests here, reports from
ten cities of the state alone showing
building permits issued to the value
of $22,915,836, figure that is re-
garded as far below the actual cost
of the projects authorized, inasmuch
as the proposed cost given when a
building permit is obtained in Flor
ida usually is from 25 to rs per cent
less than the actual outlay.
Financial circles here hold that
the eleven cities reporting could not
possibly represent so per cent of the
new construction throughout the
state during the year, for statistics
were obtained only from few points
on the peninsula, no place west of
Jacksonville being included. In the
peninsula no reports were received
from st. Petersburg, Daytona, Day
! tona Beach, Seabreeze, Fort Myers,
Kissimmee, Leesburg, the Everglades
section, Clearwater, Ocala, Tarpon
Springs and other points where con-
efruction throughout the year has
been brisk, in most instances the lack
of information being due to the fact
that the smaller cities thus far have
not organized municipal building de-
partments through which accurate
information may be obtained. In the
case of the triple cities of Daytona,
| Daytona Beach and Seabreeze, how
/ ever, the total for the year had ex-
ceeded the $2,5OO,0OO mark by De-
cember /, while permits issued in ST.
Petersburg amounted to nearly 3d.
100000, the $4,000,O00 mark having
been exceeded before November so.
Of the cities reporting, Miami led
with S5,416,3O0, Jacksonville was
second with $5,OS7,337, and Tampa
third with $4,O48,677. Others report
ing were DeLand with $2O10,O00
Orlando $l,S6S,712, West Palm
Beach $1,353,355, Lakeland $1,174,-
800, Palm Beach 1867, $50, St. Angus,
tine $385,O5O Sanford $325,865, and
Gainesville $278,160. The figure fol
DeLand is an estimate made after a
careful check of new construction
completed or in progress during the
wear, while those of the other cities
are the values stated in the building
permits.
Hotel and apartment house con-
struction throughout the state to-
tailed $4,798,SOO during the year, &C
cording to the supervising architect
of the state hotel commission, but the
structures in his report are included
in the permit figures of various cit
! les, Miami, Jacksonville, st. Peters
burg, Tampa and Orlando account
ing for the greater number.
Tampa Probably Ahead.
/ The figures given for Tampa are
for the city only, and do not embrace
the more than a million dollars in.
vested in new buildings in the imme,
date suburbs, including West Tam
pa, the area served by the Tampa
public service corporations and spok'
en- of as Greater Tampa" There
has been no extension of the city
limits in twelve years, and there is
today an area with a population OF
10000 not included. in Tampa's cen.
sus figures, but being in reality in
tegral part of the city and support
ed by the city's industries, which at
ford employment to the population
of these large suburbs.
Actual construction in Orlando IL
] placed by local building and finsncia