NEW BUSINESS BLOCK

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 3

NEW BUSINESS BLOCK

The old wooden building at the corner of Brandon arid Featherston Streets, occupied by the Eetui'ned Soldiers' Association until last year, when the upper floors were gutted by fire, is now being demolished and will be replaced by a modern business block of reinforced concrete construction. The new building will extend also to an adjoining small area in Featherston Street, the additional frontage making a block 70 feet square. The- plans, which were drawn by Messrs. Crioliton, McKay, and Haughton, provide for a five-storeyed building, with six large shops (of which five will front Featherston Street) on the ground floor, a splayed-back entrance to the corner shop, and a facade of variegated or mottled brick. To give improved lighting the corner of the building will be recessed back at right angles above the corner shop. For the time being three storeys only are to be erected. The City Council last night agreed to the necessary rearrangement of leases, the land being corporation property, making the condition that the minimum cost of the building to be erected shall be £16,500. Messrs. Higgins and Areas are the successful tenderers.