Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1916, Page 41

THE OMAF{A QIWDAY I‘I‘E. \'OVEMBE_R 26, 1916. o ARTMENT DUILDING NOW UNDER. NSTRUCTION BY THIS COMPANYS ARCHITECTURALY 4 ' '] RAWING OF THE ST.REGIS R i ! AND BUIDING ORGANIZATIONS - AT 37 T8 arD JONEO 318 ! Tle @L?xCKS TONE. HOTEL - OMana Oé’mecxs Rrcrory Dumvmo “PANKEES" REALTY INVESTMENT COMPANY ~ ONEl, NEBRASKA “ARCHITECTS &£ DUNLDING® CONTFACTORS COMS‘TR’UCTED TY BANKLES TORALTY INVESTMENT COMFANY — BUILDING CONTRACTORS ‘hcux'n:cr-s .DRAMNo q/ APARTMENT BUILDING , NOW : ‘ AL R N SR 0 )\ . _—-————_—/ ' UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR A BUILDING CLIENT &/ 3 ¥ TIRETT e — N FhaGTapetnn - AN CR ARCHITECHS DRAWING o/ HOTEL DUILDING AOW UNDER ? CONSTRUCTION TORA CLIENT AT HARTINGTGTON , ARcHITECTY meme o DLACKSTONE HOTEL 10 BF ERECTED AT KANGAS CITY, JAISSOURL. DANKIR, REALTY INVESTMENT COMPANY - ARCHITECTS AND BUILDING CONTRACTORS o \ o ™ ABOVE ARE PICTURES" OF A FEW WHICH THIS > DRONDERSLIVE GARAGE : OF THE BUILDINGS = : /Doum.r JTORE bUlLDlNG -DESIGNED ESIGNED 220 BUILT BY THI/ CQ/’\FANY/' RODE?N BUILDING ORGANIZATION - CONPANY HAS ERECTED, AND Buur BY THI,S COM Y ab Rl 367N ane PARNAN 11 - ORAHA- B UPON WHICH OUR ARCHITECTURAL 7\’”0"50" NEBRASKA- = _ AND BUILDING ORGANIZATIONYS T =TT | The Most Important Enghsh Word-~ If there is one word which today stands pre-eminent.and meaningful in American parlance, it is ‘“‘Service.”” -Service, as We use it, means intention, the will to give the utmost in bmldmg service that falls within the possibilities of human endeavor. Every foresighted corporation, every retail store, every progressive man, ahd every wise employe is today living up to the code of service. We picture on this page several buildings which are the embodiment of our ideals of service. The half million dollar Blackstone is finished, and by its owners and by every impartial and oompmnt critic it is conceded to be the finest building of its kind in the Middle West, and to be unexcelled anywhere. . The St. Regis? It is but started. Yet its future owners will say that beyond any question they expect a building which will easily outrank any apartment house in Omaha. At Hartington and Plsmmnuth, Nebraska, two fine large buildings are now under construction; plans are being made for a hotel in Kansas City which will cost approxima a million dollars when completed, and at many points inclusive of an inberstate field, new buildings, which this Company is to erect, are being pl: —all of which is an attestation of the popularity of ‘‘Service’’ when applied to building. Specifically this ‘‘Service’’ saves a building client money—a great deal of money—and likewise insures a better building than can be con- ‘structed by the old method of building. This old method involves the services, separately given, of the architect, the contractor, the sub-contractor, the financial agent, the insurance man, and others too numerous to mention. They work, perforee, without knowledge one of the other—and the result is needless chaos and costliness. Contrast this with the modern building orghnization which centralizes every profession and every operation of a large construction undertaking within jtself, and you will realize the possibility of advantage to the building client. The two ideas are dissimilar in this one—of many-—respects. The old idea has it that the architect shall submit an estimate of cost which is not guaranteed, and that the building owner must bear any additional cost which the actual work creates. In this connection, figures compiled on business buildings by prominent insurance companies show that 96 such buildings out of every 100 exceed the architect’s estimated cost by 33 per cent. The new idea, our idea, stipulates a fixed price for any and all buildings. If you desire to avoid all worry, to secure the finest building at the lowest cost, and to have for your sole concern the acceptance of and payment for a building, the writing on the wall is mterpreted by intelligent consideration in a smgle word—S ervice. Complete details concerning this Company’s metlmd of rendering financial assistance to its clients, and covering its modern methods of handling the work of construction, can be secured by addressing Plankers FRealty Ffnuestment (] ompany Ground Floor, Bee Building, Omaha, Neb. AR S = = 'J