NEW CITY BUILDINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19859, 1 February 1928, Page 13

NEW CITY BUILDINGS.

THREE LARGE CONTRACTS LET TOTAL OF £120,000 INVOLVED. Contracts for three important city buildings have been let to the Fletcher Construction Company. One is fcr a five-storey block of shops and offices on the southern corner of Queen Street and Vulcan Lane. The contract price for this building is approximately £26,000. It will have a frontage of 50ft. to Queen Street and a depth of 90ft. Provision is made for doubling the width of Vulcan Lane, now 165 ft. The contract has been let by a local syndicate, Vulcan Properties, Ltd. The architects are Messrs. Holman, Moses, and Watkin. All eight-storey building for Messrs. Smith Caughev is to be erected on the site of the old Opera House, at tho junction of Welles!ey Street West and Elliott Street, from planj by Mr. R. A. Lippincott. The price is approximately £55,000. Tho structure will have frontages of 109£ ft. to Welledey Street and 7ift. to Elliott Street, and will reach the height limit of 102 ft. The lower floors will be used to provide extension to the owners' premises; adjoining, and tho upper floors will be let. The third contract is for a large threestorey factory in St. George's Bay Road and Cleveland Road, Parnell, costing £39,000, to be occupied by the New Zealand Milk Products Company. The architects are Messrs. Chilwell and Trevithick.