NEW OFFICE BUILDING

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29051, 13 November 1959, Page 12

NEW OFFICE BUILDING

Site Clearing Next Week

A start will be made next week to clear the corner of Colombo street and Oxford terrace in preparation for a modern four-storey office building to be erected by the McLean Institute.

The Colombo street shops in the two old buildings have been cleared of tenants and next week the bulldozers Will move in to clear the site.

It is expected that tenders will be invited within the next few weeks for the new building, which will be on much the same lines as the McLean Institute building next door in Oxford terrace. That building, also of four storeys, haS been in use for less than three years. Three shops with frontages on Colombo street will be provided in the new building. The rest will be office space. The new block of offices will be the first major building on Colombo street to be set back by seven feet from the existing building line to comply with the policy of the City Council, which was recently made a by-law.

The McLean Institute has owned the land on which the new building will be erected for a number of years, and unsuccessfully appealed against the City Council’s decision of several years ago refusing to allow the building out to the existing street line. Earlier this year, when for ,the three weeks between council meetings the policy of the council was to allow cantilever-type buildings in the stretch of Colombo'' street from Moorhouse avenue to Oxford terrace, the institute applied for permission to have that type of construction. With the final determination of the council’s policy on street widening, the institute agreed to completion of the plans for the new building.