Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1929, Page 14

REAL <LOCAL BUSINESS GENTERS FORMED Stores Must Be Where Peo- ple Can Get to Them Most Conveniently. R Y YT VWS < ‘The importance of local neighbor- <hood business or convenlence centers to all the outlying residential areas % of any city is very great, in the opinion <of Charles H. Cheney of Los Angeles, 4chairman of the city and regional plan- ning committee of the American Insti- 4tute of Architects. “These local business centers, and <pimilar centers in all our cities, have . been established almost invariably at important crossroads of traffic,” he says. 4*“To succeed local stores must be where E:pla can most conveniently get to <them from several directions, in order <to provide enough customers for profit- “able service. «_ “In questioning storekeepers of these “local centers in many cities during the <course of zoning hearings, I find that most of them expect to get their trade “within six or eight blocks of their es- gtablishment. r local centers will cater to and reach a much wider circle, tbut one still comparatively local to the center. Local Traffic Best. “Through traffic coming from a long <distance seldom has as much purchas- ing power as the local traffic. In fact, ‘we seem to have an exaggerated idea .of both the volume and importance of through traffic to local stores, except «for restaurants, garages and oll stations. “In a town of 500 population the only sbusiness center is at the railroad sta- _tion, or bus station about the crossroads ‘and about 250 feet of store frontage will JActually be in use. “In a local center of 5,000 people the 9,500 feet of store frontage needed can- _not profitably shoestring out along just ‘two main streets which ordinarily form the crossroads that created the center, and will tend to spill over into the «side streets, with perhaps one or two nuclei of local centers forming in the ‘outskirts. “I na ecity of 50,000 with a 25,000 ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR $719.975 IN NEW CONSTRUCTION LISTED IN PERMITS FOR WEEK (Continued From Thirteenth Page.) 8200 Ellicott street (lot 800, square 2035); to cost $6,000. G. W. Chase, owner, designer and builder; to erect one 1-story brick dwelling, 7201 Seventh street (part of lot 814, square 3176); to cost $6,000. J..T. Brown, owner and builder; J. Alonzo Plater, designer; to erect one Sherift road northeast (lot 58, square | 5175); to .cost $6,000. Old Colony Laundry, owners; Doran S. Platt, architect; E. H. Davis Co, builders; to erect one 1-story concrete- block addition, rear 120 Blair road (part of lots 810, 814 and 815, square 3280); to cost $5,500. L. W. Groomes, owner; Skinker & Garrett, builders; to make alterations, 1719 Eye street (lot 804, square 126); to cost $5,000. James H. Caton, owner and builder; to make repairs, 1028 Thirty-third street (lots 807, 808 and 817, square 1184); to_cost $4,000. Victor H. Dodge, owner; Sears, Roe- buck & Co., designers and builders; to erect one 1-story frame dwelling. 5752 Sherrier place (lot 05, square 1452); to cost $4,000. Gelsomino D'Ambrosio, owner and builder; L. W. Giles, designer; to erect one 3-story brick addition, 301 Fourth street southeast (lot A, square 701); to cost $8,000. Nora and Irvin T. Donohoe. owners; Neville Buckingham, architect; Thomas F Jones, builder; to erect one 3-story (lot 804, square 183); to cost $2,000. James Proctor, owner; J. H. Simmons & Sons, bullders; to erect frame addi- tin, 2613 Wade road southeast (lot 895, square 5865); to cost $1,800. Mrs. Edward Clifford, owner; W. H. Turton, builder; to erect brick garage, 3033 N street (lot 88, square 12‘3): to cost $1,800, Joseph Sperling. owner; M. Cladney Construction Co.. builders: to make re- pairs, 709 Thirteenth strcet (lot 809, square 288): to cost $1,500. 2-story concrete block dwelling, 5,000 | mak brick and stucco addition, 1625 L street | B Park Road Apartment to Cost $375,000 Is Largest Project—$90,000 S Street Residence Second. William C. Allard, owner and build- er; to erect one 1-story concrete-block and stone gasoline station, 4419 Bowen road southeast (lots 146 and 147, square 5365): to cost $1,200. A B . owner and builder; to erect mt‘cll'n shed, vacant ground (lots 109 to 117, lfl\lll;u;l'zl)l.n:'l cost. ‘I.WSO. Peoples Drug , Inc., owners; E. 8. Haislip, er builder; e , 741 North Capitol street (lot 87, square 677); to cost $1,000, Boss & owners and bullders; to erect ::uh:’umma garages, 4331 to 4443 Brandywine street (lots 53 to 56, square 1649); to cost $1,000. A REAL HOME In “Marietta Park” With 4 Bedrooms, Bullt-out Pantry, ColoniaiFront Porch, Deep Yard and Brick Garage. All 39350 Easy for o Terms SAMPLE HOUSE OPEN TO 9 PM. 540 Madison St. N.W. Bullt and Owned by THRIFT BUILDING COMPANY For Sale by Your Broker WAPLE & JAMES Inc. Speclalizing in New Homes 1226 14th Street North 0962 WASHINGTON, D.. 0., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929. REAL ESTATE. Jusi Out of 1he MMM SF Corpenter: nidi Painees Homes With Personality Among the - Hills and Trees of Beautiful SLico PArk HiLLS front feet of store frontage ordinarily ! -necessary there should be already six or eight well established outlying local ‘centers. Centers Uncontrolled. * “In a city of 50,000 with a 25000 .found from 30 to 100 of these neigh- borhood centers, of variable size Le- “cause they have been uncontrolled. .‘There will also be a lot of falsely located and scattered store units, placed <at inconvenient and therefore unsucess- tul points by speculators who had little “or no knowledge of the traffic necessary to store liviihood. These are the non- “conforming uses of the belated zcning ~now being done in most of our cities. “Of course the number and characte. “of local store centers will vary with the Jocal characteristics of cities. Thus “congested tenement house cities like <New York and San Francisco tend to develop local business centers at so *many corners of street car or traffic | streets as to make the line of stores more or less continuous. “Single family detached home cities like Los Angeles and many Middle ‘Western cities have lesser need of cen- ters so close together and business units are more likely to congregate at -well established cross-roads much further apart. ~_ “There is the same danger of shoe- string speculators, however, unless roper goning regulations clearly con- fine the location of business buildings to reasonably limited areas. Tkis can ~be done either by private restrictior. or by municipal zone ordinance. “Zoning, in fact, is the most im- portant foundation for the proper lay- out of local business centers. Conce: trated centers are more _successsful than long drawn out ones, scattered over a wide area. “Real estate developers who can con- trol by protective restrictions several ~hundred or several thousand acres of Charming New Homes Semi-Detached Brick Complete in Every Detail Compare Life in This Lovely Sylvan Setting With the Most Costly City Home Every Home a Small Wooded Estate—Most Homes With at Least a 70-Foot Tree-Sheltered Frontage 9,750 to 12,900 Each Picture in This Advertisement Illustrates 2815-2817 3%th St. N.W. Open Today and Sunday Till 9 P.M. Nothing has heen left undone to make these homes the finest that can be built for the money. They contain eight spacious rooms and two baths on first two floors, Stores to _somethin, Rh the i 2 g cent of the number of buildings an- ticipated in their district, thereby in- |} [ the reasonable success of the mltngsm which come into the dis- . ANNOUNCE COMPETITION. Plan Nation-Wide Contest for| George Rogers Clark Memorial. A Nation-wide competition for the . design of a George Rogers Clark Me- morial, open to all American architects :and subject to the conditions of the American Institute of Architects, is an- nounced by the Sesquicentennial Com- . anission, . Commemorating the winning of the ©old Northwest and the achievements of Clark and his associates in the Ameri- - can Revolution, the memorial will stand |. 8t or near the site of Fort Sackville, |” Vincennes, Ind. - ARDMAN S 1437 K St. N.W. L with the attic completely finished into 2 rooms and bath, making in reality six splendid bedrooms and three baths. The homes are modern in every respect, including hot- water heat, electric lights, hardwood floors throughout, open fireplace, Electric refrigerator, instantaneous hot- water heater, built-in brick cold storage rooms, 2-car built-in garage, and many other splendid modern appoint- ments that only an inspection will bring out. ‘ One Block jrom Bus Line Two Blocks from Car Line From Wicconsin Avenue, turn west on Fulton to 39th—or call us for auto service direct to property. Decatur 5800 Realtor WOODLEY PARK Only A Few Homes Remain Unsold HOMES in this desirable subdivision are in such de- mand that there are now but a very few available. They are selling fast for the reason that they fulfill every requirement of the discerning investor who rec- ognizes true worth. They are not only beautiful and diversified in design, but most substantially constructed and perfectly appointed. : Situated in a most picturesque suburban-like section almost sur- rounded by magnificent estates, this highly restricted development of better-class homes is but twelve or fifteen minutes’ drive from the F Street shopping center. Woodley Park offers you the advan- - tage of being secluded without being isolated. It offers. you an . opportunity to live among people of culture and refinement— people prominent in Washington’s social and business circles. We invite your closest investigation and suggest that you inspect our . Exbhibit Home 2810 Cortland Place (Corner 29th) OPEN DAILY UNTIL 9 P. M. Drive out Connecticut Avenue to Ca- thedral Avenue, then west two squeres to 29th Street and turn right ome square District 3830 METZLER 1 an Individual Home Priced Between These Figures HE only location around Washington where these prices will purchase homesites hav- ing winding, tree-sheltered streets and wide frontage with ample parks on every side. Sligo Park Hills truly presents every advantage of beauty and recreation usually associated with homes costing from $40,000 to $60,000. 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