Show u NOTABLE IMPRO VEMENT SI I Important Building Operations That Have Been Inaugurated SEVEEAL CONTRACTS LET Cite Harmon Building Blocks any Commercial Street Extension Contract Let tor the Sanitarium PipeLine Pipe-Line The Brighton Normal Tho market House to Be Completed Com-pleted by June 15 Lat year there was considerable agitation agita-tion favoring the dividing of the large business blocks but this has all blown over and the city is building up on the old lines I There was a timeand it is not more than two years agowhen ComrSJrcial i street promised t become one of the great business thoroughfares of the City and I there was a general demand for frontage at I good stiff prices This street between Main and State streets commands a very favorable location and should it be extended ex-tended south it would no doubt become all that its projectors predicted But all hopes of such an extension are now being blockaded by the erection of a business block on the ground belonging to the Harmon estate which stands directly di-rectly in the way Should the city council coun-cil ever conclude to open UD a street through this block they will compelled to condemn a 60000 building A force of teams and men are already at work excavating ex-cavating for the foundation and cellar The contract for the new structure has been let to H E Redfield and he is bound to complete the edifice by October 1 The front of the first story is to be of cut stone and the second and third stories trimmings will be of pressed brick with dressed stone The building has a frontage of 103M feet on Second South street with a depth of 90 feet Thompson Weigel are the architects and they have provided a large and elegantentrance with tile floor All the office rooms will have outside light About 4000 will be expended on iron beams etc The contract for building a store room on the C E Taylor lot just west of the McCornick block on First South street was yesterday awarded to the Salt Lake Building t Manufacturing company the price stipulated being 80 The room is to have a frontage of 35 feet with a depth of 85 feet and an 18foot ceiling The front will be made of stone and brick Thompson Weigel are the archl ects The same architects have the plans out for a residence for N J Sheckell a Nebraska man to be erected on Sixth South street between Fifth and Sixth East to cost about 2000 Architects are now at work on the plans for two cottages which J A Morlan will erect on his grounds on oran Main this side of the Utah Central depot Councilman Lawson and Jim Kennelley who own a valuable piece of property on Second South street near the Wasatch corner are said to be considering a proposition to erect thereon a fine new modern business block |