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Show LARGE BUILDING" ON -HUDSON AVE. Browning Brothers Start Work on a Three-Story Business Block, 50 Feet by 130 Feet, Which Will Annex the Garage on Grant Avenue Other Improvements. I I The Prowning Brothers have al-I al-I ready begun the construction of a! J modern 3-story buildlnR on tho west I Ride of the nowly opened block on 1 Hudyon avenue anl exiect to move their store and repair hop into the new quarters by the first of the year. The new building will have a llfty-foot llfty-foot front on the avenue and will extend ex-tend back one hundred and thirty feet, connecting with the BrownlDg Karago on Grant avenue. The structure struc-ture will be of brick and be three stories In height In addition to the hasoment which will extend the en-tre en-tre length of ihc building. The Brownings will occupy the first floor with the sporting goods business, busi-ness, the entire stock of goods to be moved from the Washington avenue rooms, which will be rented for other purposes. The second floor will be used as a repair shop, elevators being Installed to carry automobiles from the ground floor to the shop. The third floor will be utJIztd as a stork room and for the overflow tf work in the repair dcpaitrnont. The building which is now being used us-ed as a repair shop is to be enlarged and will be used for store rooms. It Is expected that the repair shop will be rented for two retail business houses, as It will afforu s.ifncient floor space for this purpose. While ' this building Is now partly one story and partly two stories the one-story half will have an additional story added to It, making the entire structure struc-ture of equal height. Tho Browning Brothers also own about sixty feel of frontaao on the, east 6ide of Hudson avenue which is at present unimproved. There is to be a building placed upon this site, but the owners have not yet decided on the plans for the structure. |