Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-06-05 | Page 7 | Shopping near Cemeteries

r SHOPPING NEAR CEMETERIES CEMETERIES' 1 In a large Middle Western city Is a cemetery occupying the equivalent equiv alent of more than man two city blocks not far from the retail business center It has hren heen there since this location almost in inthe the heart of the present city was at the outskirts It Is now considered a big detriment to real estate values and has checked building building- development in that section Probably many manYa a city has Just such a cemetery problem Real estate men are always trying to find mean means by which a cemetery may be abandoned and the ground built over Yet surely on only y a little thought is needed to show that a cemetery In Inthe Inthe inthe the midst of a great rat city could easily be made more of an asset than a liability to pro property pert If It everybody were taught to say 4 1 Property along here heTe Is ts more v valuable able than elsewhere because It faces ces the cemetery and is thus sure of al 31 always always ways having open space about the public wo would lil accept that inte Just as os readily as property owners say as they n no r do 1 lg 1 Mark l values down h here re theres there's objectionable breathing sI near r Owners of ot property adjoining Trinity churchyard in New Yo Tori City certainly do do not consider th that thaI cemetery a menace to real estat esta values Neither elther do property own in New England towns object to th iii cemetery which l Is Js usually th tir towns town's beauty pot In these days when people l n no longer believe in iii ghosts h beadle adies horsemen an l such sue nonsense a acen In a conc congested ted part of ot a grea city if properly Kept and 1 might be almost almot as valuable to a ad adjoining adjoining joining real estate as a city par pari Yet realtors im invariably appear I overlook this obvious fact and un fall fail tl to make nake capital of ot it Fred Ken Kelly in the Nations Nation's Bus Busness Busness ness Ia 1 Magazine