The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-24
BIGGEST BUILDING PROGRAM
ON IN ARIZONA SINCE 1929

PHOENIX, ARIZ., July 20-Ari-
zona is enaged in a building con-
struction program eclpsing that of
any year since 1929 and approach
ing almost boom proportions. it is
indicated by building permit totals
from Phoenix and Tucson and part
ial figures and estimates assembled
by the Federal Housing Administra-
ton from other sections of the
state. Close to two million dollars
was expended on construction work
during the first six months of 1896
within the corporate limits of the
two large cities alone, in addition
to scores of residences built in sub
divisions outside the city limits.
The Phoenix figure for the semi
annual period represents approxi-
mately three times that for the cor
responding six months in 1885, ex-
elusive of the s475,OOO postoffice
bui!d.n and four times that of the
first half of 1884 Tucson's six
months total showed an almost
identical gain, nearly three times
that for the first half of 1885 and
four and one-third times the figure
for the first six months of 1884.
Phoenix total for the first half
of 1886 was $725,6S9 as compared
with $242.032, exclusive of the
S475,0 postoffice, for the same
period in 1885 and s1S1,767 for the
half-year in 1894.
Tucson's total for the six months
was nearly a quarter OF million
dollars higher than that of Phoenix,
$969,175 from January to July /,
- compared with $323,972 for the
first half of 1885 and $223,265 for
the six months in 1884
Phoenix had only s665.145 in addi-
ton to the postoffice building for
the whole year of 1885. or $60,544
less for the first six months of this
1885 was $1,297,474, including
year, and Tucson's total for all of
several hundred thousand dollars
spent at the University of Arizona,
or only $328,299 more than for the
six months period of the present
years.
While complete comparative
records from other Arizona cities
and towns are not available, partial
figures and estimates gathered by
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton indicate ismilar gains in all
sections Of the state.
New residential properties, the
housing administration figures re-
veal, are leading the construction
field in every section of the state.
In Phoenix residential building for
the first six months of this year
amounted to four times in number
and five times in value than for
the first six months of 1885 and in
Tucson the number of dwellings
built was three and one-half times
that for the six months in 1885 and
corporte limits of the city, IS homes
worth $330,375 were built in Phoe-
nix from January l to July 1 this
year, as compared with 10 valued at
$65, ,145 for the period in 1885. Also
entirely within the city limits, IA
homes were built this year in
Tucson, valued at s242,940, as COM
pared with only 21 valued at $751;
200 DUNG the corresponding six
months last year.
In Phoenix, according to address
Of borrower in mortgages insured
oy the Federal Housing Administra-
ton, 40 per cent of the new resi-
dences are built in subdivisions out
side of the city limits, and not
shown in building permit figures,
which would raise the state
capitals residential building figure
for the first six months of 1886 to
more than s550,000. On the same
basis, so per cent of Tucson's new
residential construction is in sub
divisions outside of the corporate