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Show Fprague Branch Libr. n nth Fait f'ltv Huge Shopping Center linear Grand Opening scaped, will lead into and out of each and every unit. Planned carefully and after long study of the most successful marketing mark-eting areas in the world, the new venture will be the epitome of modern shopping convenience. While volumes could be told of the venture, The News Bulletin will cover only the aspects of the development as they are today, next week and the next each pointing to the great grand opening open-ing in early August when a special souvenir edition will be published with the cooperation of the founding found-ing families of the progressive venture. Indeed, this particular edition will mark a milestone in the history of Sugar House community publications, for it will report and review the vast development of this thriving area not only from the grand opening on but backwards back-wards as well, this 100 years of Continued on page 2 Sugar House and all Salt Lake was pointing toward August 6 when the grand opening of the new Cur-'.is-Papanikolas modern shopping center becomes a reality. For a reality it is to be no longer a dream projected on blue print and paper or in the minds of broad-visioned men. For the first units of the great shopping area are fast Hearing completion, and giant bull-dozers are leveling homes', trees, hillocks and gullies into vast, many-acred parking lots. Six giant stores are already to shove in their merchandise and open their doors to business business busi-ness to be done in the most ultramodern ultra-modern setting in all the west. A dozen more are under contract , for space in the great center. And when the final signatures are dry, no less than a score of new business ventures will have chosen this four million dollar dream center for their future bases of operation. Parking, long a problem in grown up business centers, has been taken care of for years to come, for the Curtis-Papanikolas families have provided adequate space to comfortably park no less than 1000 automobiles in an area convenient to the newly situated stores. Walks, cross walks, covered by awnings, and tasetfully land- CENTER TO OPEN Continued Iroin I'age 1 progress of Sugar House. Gus Papanikolas reported that J. C. Penney's Albertson's Food Center, and Gambles Western Auto Supply stores would participate partici-pate in the initial grand opening. To these names he added the F. W. Woolworth, Mode O'Day, Carl's Shoe store, Hoffman Hardware, Hard-ware, Fuller Paint, W. T. Grant, Skaggs Payiess o-rug store, Edison Edi-son Brothers Baker or Chandler Shoe store, Wallgreen Drugs, Gal-lenkamps Gal-lenkamps Shoes and Fashion Fabrics as concerns already signed up for space. No less than a dozen more are in negotiation for smaller or large shops in the center, he concluded. |