Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
Gulf Refining Co. Files Plans
for $4,000 Initial
Building Group.
MACHINERY AND TANKS
TO COST ADDITIONALLY
Capt. Chisholm of Planning Body
Favors Buzzards Point
Development.

With the filing of plans with the
District Building Inspector for erection
of group of buildings at Souht Capitol
and Water streets southwest, the Gulf
Refining Co. of RoSSlyn, Va, today made
storage plant that eventually will in
ciude shipping and docking facilities on
the river front.
The plans filed today provide for a
group of six one-story buildings, at 1724
South Capitol street and 1707 Water
street, to cost approximately S85, 900.
The figure includes only the cost of
building construction and fails to pro-
vide for machinery and storage tanks,
the cost of which is expected to boost
the price of the project considerably.
The plant will include a modern
pump house, truck loading sheds, brick
garage and combined boiler and pump
house, in addition to storage buildings
plant will be adjacent to the present
plant of the Standard Oil Co.
Brick and Concrete.
The buildings will be of brick and
concrete construction. steam heated,
with fiat Stag roofs. The main build
ing in the South Capitol street unit will
contain nine rooms. Other buildings
will have no partitions. The South
Capitol street lot is 1874 feet by 275 feet,
while the Water street lot is BAT feet
by 365 feet.
Capt. E. N. Chisolm. jr., engineer of
the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, explained today that he
personally is heartily in favor of an in
dustrial development in the Buzzard's
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in which the Gulf Refining Co. proposes
to develop.
The commission has long since ap-
proved the proposal of having Wash
ington's industrial interests conferred
around BuzZards Point, between the
Army War College and the Navy Yard,
on the Anacostia River.
Capt. Chisolm pointed out that there
is available at that point a draft of 81
feet of water. While he declined to
state the position of the commission
on the Gulf Refining Co. program, ex-
planning that he was unable to speak
for it in this particular instance, Capt.
Chisolm said he believes the COM
mission would interpose no objections
to the plan If it conforms to the fire
and other laws of the Dis
trict Of Columbia. Similarly, he be-
lieves that Maj. Gen. Lyle Brown,
chief of Army engineers, a member of
the commission, would have no objec-
ton to issuing permit to construct a
wharf, If that course Is indicated by the
plans.
Opposes Virginia Wharves.
The commission has strenuously OPP
posed the construction of wharves on
the Virginia side of the Potomac River
on the grounds that 1t would mar the
beauty of the proposed parkway along
the Arlington County shore line. A
number of oil companies now have
tanks near Rosslyn, Va, but do not per-
nit water borne petroleum commerce at
that point. 1t has been said by OBJ
servers that the oil companies prefer
to get wharfage rights from the Gov
eminent on the Virginia side of the
Potomac River, rather than come to
the District of Columbia, where the
fire and other regulations governing the
installation Of oil tanks are more rigid
than those in Virginia.
The Sun Oil Co. Of Philadelphia,
some months ago, unsucceSsfully sought
to secure permit from the chief of
Army Engineers for wharf just above
the Key Bridge, at Rosslyn. The
granting of this permit was vigorously
objected to by the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, the
Fine Arts Commission and other in
terested parties, including number OF
civic groups