The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-03-20
CITY MUST
GE IF factions
T()(1E Their
Holman Street Widening Pro-
jeCtAIready Has Formidable
Opponents Who Favor
Calumet Ave.


The city administration viii need
the cooperation ur every baslnes
i"an on hohman street ia order III
NsIden Holman street
Opposition is beg nning o. MAX 4
iiselt felt One proflnent HamJ
mond man, "A wealthy property omnJ
er, stated thar he is strongly op-I
posed 70 widening Hohnan street.
Il VIII cost a million dollars heI
said with that Investment nerI
ahd brighter business district could
be built east Of the M0non and EaeI
tracks East State street and CallJ
met avenue offer greater possibilil
ties than Holman street. especially|
Calumet avenue.
If the city would open sohII
street across the river and southl
past the coal storage buiidingl
which is to be torn down. a busilI
hess center could be established q i
East State street and sohi streerl
which would surpass Hohman|
street
The turn at the broken cornerl
limits the Holman street husines
distri SO a few blocks and il will|
never be adequate for the futurd|
growth Of the city
COSTLY IITiG aTIaN.
Widening Holman street is 81
great deal Of expensive litivat.onl
All things considered. j believe m
would be a r-siehted paliey forl
the city to prepare for a new busi i
ness center The new and nloderr
business blocks built in the nas,|
two years and t. be built thts Neatl
are on East State street. The p-id
enlng of East State street fron|
Oakley avenue to Calumet avenua|
IS FAR more Important to my mind
than the widening Of H5hma
street.
y When the Jones and Lauasihs
plant is built Calumet avenu. vii
be the one through thoro aeh -
connecting the plant with The soutls|
side residence district No matted
how attractive Holman street
made Calumet avenue will aivava
be better prepared FOR business dc
Nelopment It connects rho IakI
front with the Kankakee river. Thdl
development of Calumet avenue Win
come very shortly All that III
needed is one big hank building.
big hotel or department. Score al
start Calumet avenue on a buildin
boom.
When the Jones and Lsuehii-
plant is built Calumet avenue uil4
surely have a street car line or III
terurban.
am convinced that we are hves
or ten years too late with the Wild
ching of Holman street. vcnsn~,
to say that in ten years vou Wal
find Holman street much the sams
as It is today and that there viii Ia
q new and modern city built east o
the postoffice.
Some dag the railroads win ID.
elevated Perhaps not for ten oS|
maybe fifteen years. bur oventnaliJ Jl
Hammond viii grow to an extend
that it can no longer afford t. hava
The costly crossing DELAYS For
Wayne has already elevated half IN
the railroads and Gary is preparing u
to demand elevation Of the MichiN
gan Central. Pennsylvania and WaN
bash lines which are the only steaniS
roads running at grade n that cit.-N
JOLIET An EXAMPLE.
Take Joliet. III. for oxampleH
Joliet had a grade crossing in thdK
center Of the cits not quite 81 ban
as Hammond's. but nevertheless al
nuisance.
Joliet had population Of 5o.oonH
People said the railroads wouift
never elevate. But they did and
now Joliet Is thousand timed
more attractive and more metro u
politan
w hen elevation Of the raIfroads
comes the Holman street district
viii be seriously handicapped Al
against the Calumet district Thes
Hessville territory viii have build
up and the district between stardE
ard avenue and the Little CalunieU
river on Calumet avenue viii hc&
solid with homes Calumet avenu&
will then have the supporting ten
ritor5 that is needed to maintain a
shopping center.
Did YOU ever ask vourselT whI
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