Show PROSPERITY IS EVIDENT ON SOUTH STATE STREET New Apartment Houses Going b bup Up and More Planned for Erection Soon The block between Seventh and Eighth South streets on State street is entering upon an era of r real al estate to prosperity prosperity pros pros- due it Is said to the thc recent removal ro- ro moval mO of or lar largo large c department stores to Broadway and State streets thus changing changInG changing chang chang- ing the trend of or business busIness' toward the sou south tho thoAs a As evidence of or this remarkable change chango Is IB the ca case e of or the apartment and store building at ot Seventh South and State streets which will not b bo be ready for or occupancy mc In another week Already Al- Al r ready all tho the stores on tho the ground floor I have ha been l leased for Cor a n period of or five I years and over every one of the tine apartments have hac been taken tenants only awaiting tho time lime of or completion to move In hi The Sherwood DIu Drug company has I I signed up for tho the big storeroom on tho the corner and contemplates putting In sov- sov eral thousand dollars worth of oC fixtures fixtures fixtures fix fix- tures with a view to making It one of the best drug stores toles In Inthe Inthe n ntine the tine city The Union Meat Grocer Grocery Gro Gro- cory cery company has taken tho store adjoining and a wholesale conc concern rn the third store space In the building Arthur Mead the tine contractor who built the H building realizing the opportunity has bought fifty feet fronta frontage frontage front front- a age c adjoining that building to the tho south and has taken out a permit to erect a aI apartment house I Immediately Immediate south of ot this contemplated contemplated plated building will be con constructed a building b by and for the use of the Utah Tile file Marble company compan and on the corner of or State and J Eighth South streets Drs Dm Allen an and Middleton aro arc preparing to erect a n large garage c When Nathan Ro bought from Tuttle Brothers the lot at State and Seventh Seventh Sev Sev- South streets and announced he was going to erect an apartment an and store bull building thereon people so the stor story g goes es said fald he tie was craz crazy but he now has Invested in that corner and has proved pro to the tha skeptical that business is going going- down State Slate street A member o of the firm o of Tuttle Brothers Broth Broth- ers who ho are arc handling the building for or tho the owner said yesterday the activity In ht that vicinity is the outgrowth outgrowth out out- growth of oC the movement o of J Auerbach company compan and the Keith OBrien compan company company com com- pany pan to now new quarters at State and B Broadway rood way Through the advent ad of oC these great stores opening there said he property proper t tj ty between State and Second East Est streets that could have o been bou bought ht three years ago o for Cor from to GOO a n front foot has recently sold at 1000 1000 a n front foot Coot On the lots purchased ed stores are arc now being erected and the owners are arc findIng finding find find- Ing In advance of completion ready tenants tenants tenants ten ten- ants at good rentals Those who are making making- this venture figure that the tine trade brought to that section by hy the line big department stores will furnish enough overflow o business s to more than justify their Investments The trend Is south and east st and wise Investors are arc looking that way |