Los Angeles Herald, Volume 33, Number 263, 20 June 1906 — BUILDING PERMIT FOR $1,000,000 [ARTICLE]

BUILDING PERMIT FOR $1,000,000

LARGEST ISSUED IN HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES .

Active Work on the Great Hamburger Department Store — Hill Street ■

Frontage for Electric Pailway , Station

Following are the permits issued from the building superintendent's office Tuesday, classified according to wards: F w ,r- r mi - tB -^ Secnnd i 3,750 Third 3 900 Kourtll B 1,004,r,TS Fifth 3 7,100 Sixlh 9 6.140 Seventh 4 20,425 Klßhth 1 400 Ninth 6 11,900 , Totals : 38 $1,050,333

$1,000,000 Building Permit

The chief incident In tho routine work of the office of the building superintendent at' the city hall yesterday was the granting of a permit for the erection of Hamburger and Sons' department store on the southwest corner of Broadway nnd Eighth street, the valuation stated in the permit being $1,000,000, the fee $221.

This Is the largest building permit in valuation ever issued In the history of Los Angeles, and the fee. $221, is the greatest, ever paid to the building superintendent in one check.

The great building, which will afford over 600,000 square feet of floor tpace. will be seven stories, with deep basement and a sub-basement under part of the building The frontage on Broadway will be 365^ feet, on Eighth street 160 feet, on Hill street 120 feet. In addition to the many departments for the transaction of the Hamburger business there are provided In the plans gorgeous parlors, retiring romos, readIng and writing rooms, a nursery, an emergency hospital with physician, trained nurses and maids always In attendance, escators or moving Btalrways, elevators and a great entertainment hall, besides a roof garden for the beneilt of the public.

The linn has made provision for the manufacture of many lines of goods In the huge building.

Hill -Street Valuation

The sale of a lot 42x155 feet on the east side of Hill street, between Fourth and Fifth Btreets, by the Mojave Hiver company to W. J. Logan for $84,000, or at the rtfte of $2COO a front foot, Is be-

lleved to be in the Interest of the Los Angeles-Pacific Railway compalfy. ! It Is known that the company . desires better passenger station facilities, and the acquirement of. tho Hill street frontage for connection with the frontage on Fourth street, between Hill and Broadway, provides ample space for the accommodation of the public and the handling of the company business. Two thousand dollars a foot is the high record price for frontage on Hill street. The plans for a double track tunnel from First street on Hill through to Sunset boulevard for the diversion of the Hollywood and Colegrove cars from Spring street roundabout route, will call for a passenger station on Hill street. ■«;'■.

Vernon and Western Avenues C. P. W. Palmer reports the sale of forty acres situated at the southwest corner of Vernon and Western avenues for D. T. MoKeon and T,. R Shepherd to Messrs. Martin & Rockwell and O. A. Vlckrey & Co., for the Rum of $72,000, or $1800 an acre. This property will be divided Into 50 and 55-foot lots with first-class Improvements and placed on the market in a very short time, as the extension of the Grand avenue car line joins this property on the south, extending west half a mile.