Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-30 | Page 3 | New Building Program for Year Totals Two Millions

NEW BUILDING FOR YEAR TOTALS I I TWO MILLIONS MILLION u P Railroad Shops and Big Bi Under Under- Undertaking taking NEw NEw- NEW NEW- AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENT Church and Home Construction Con Con- Construction Cont Enlarge Hos ny Uy r w F r ANN Og Ogden en will w have pro pro- program program gram reaching the t t l million dol- dol dot dollar Jar mark and probably surpassIng it during 1927 according to a lions at the opening of ot the tho year Some of o tho the structural work Is al- al already al already ready under way plans having been made for tor other ether big ble buildings and definite announcements regard regarding In others are expected In tho the Very vcr near nea- future Chief of the construction work orlIs n ork Is that for the tho Union Pacific rail rail- railroad railroad railroad road Including the building of roundhouse and shops shop That the railroad company will wilt expend from to In these Og- Og Ogden Ogden OSden den Improvements has bas been an- an announced announced flounced The Thc huge buge roundhouse Is rapidly becoming a II reality as aa steel concrete brick and other building material mater are being placed for tor or the building AMUSEMENT PROJECTS that a a half million dollars dollar will be b expended for the enlarge enlarge- enlargement enlargement ment of amusement amu ement facilities In Og- Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den Is I expressed expressed- Extension of ot tho th White City gardens and amusement amuse amuse- amusement ment resort on Twenty-fifth Twenty street has lias been started by the th D H Peery estate Announcement has bM ha been made mado that the retry Petry interests inter will build a Chinese type theatre and am garden arden on avenue at seventh seventh street streeL The Th contract con con- contract con contract tract has been let for the new Ber- Ber BerI Ber- Ber Berthana I thana gardens and dance floor on Washington avenue just south of the Ogden Osden river This promises to tobe tobe be one of the th most molt unusual and In- In Interesting in amusement places In the west Plans are aro being considered for a new theatre for stock corn com com company pan pany shows show and another large larco thea- thea theatre tr ire tre development Is also declared to be under consideration although no announcement has been made madeI I regarding this project Construction of an addition to I the Thomas D B Dee De memorial hos hos- hospital hospital pital will wll mean the expenditure of approximately according to 10 present plans I NEW 11 L D B DS S CIL New chapels and amusement halls for tor the Latter-day Latter Saints church will cost approximately a aI quarter million dollars I I The Globe Grain Milling com corn company company pany has hu just announced a build build- lug ing program which will result In tin tm outlay ot of from toI to I l Just what municipal construe construe- construction tion work will be b undertaken has bas basI h i not been announced although each I year has seen Ogden progress to toI some extent at I least st In placing of I paving sidewalks tl curbs cur curb gutters s and water mains There Is anticipation that some som work will willbe willbe willbe be carried through In 1927 nl- nl although al although though much less Jess than In former years Home building has been going on on apace for tor several years In Og- Og Ogen Oe tien en but the demand for new homes has as not yet et been satisfied In fact tact there thero are Indications that Ogden will have bave more snore home horn build build- building buildIng ing this year than in 1926 That there will be construction of sev- sev several sev several eral cral smaller buildings in the busi busi- business business ness district Is also anticipated Several such uch buildings are now un un- under under der dee way Including the th Brewer BrOwer gar gar- garage garage age on Grant avenue the Lorenz Lorenzo Jackson building at Twenty third street and Klesel Kiesel avenue and the th lUnders araJe on nfl avenue near e er Herrick avenue avenue- avenue l LARGE BUILDINGS GS r F Completion of ot both the Hotel Big Bigelow low and the First NatiOnal Bank building g are arc tw large that have e extended fi from m 1926 1928 into 1927 Although rapid progress bas ha hab b en cn m made on each structure there remains much to bo be done don and structural workers and finisher will bo be busy for tor a considerable time One of o the th new building projects under consideration Is the construe construe- construction tion tron of ot a 12 room room 12 addition to the lve Points public school The rhe 01 den board of education has not yet decided whether this building will willbe willbe be part par of th the 1927 1327 program A Tho rhe Utah state stilt legislature Is eon con con proposals for tor two new buildings for tor the Utah State School for the Dc-at Dc and nd Blind and also for another building at the Utah State Stale Industrial school I I Although Weber college collee is l pur- pur purchasing chasing additional campus 1 prop property IoP erty no announcement has been beeD made regarding any ny new building Ity planned for tor this year ear r t With such uch an extensive building program In progress backed bY bYthe bYthe bytho the construction of ot the tir Echo rca res- res reservoir and tho the Industrial expansion which Is b 1 anticipated for Ogden those surveying economic condi condi- conditions conditions lions of Ogden predict that 1927 will be b one CIne ne of the community community's mo most t Important