Building Permits For February

Building Starts on Large Homes Project at Los Angeles

A $3,500,000 large-scale private rental project, named Thousand Gardens, has entered its first construction stage on a 105-acre site on LaBrea Ave. at Rodeo Road, Los Angeles. Clearance of the site will be followed with the construction of.97 one and two-story structures to provide housing accommodations for 627 f.amilies. This is the second largest enterprise of the kind ever insured by the large-scale division of the FHA under conditions of strictly private ownership. Thousand Gardens, Inc., of which Shirley E. Meserve is president, is sponsoring the project.

The architects are Reginald D. Johnson and the firm of Wilson, Merrill & Alexander, with Clarence B. Stine of New York as consulting architect. The entire construction, including excavating, underground utilities, street work and landscaping, will be by the Baruch Corp. of Los Angeles.

There also will be developed an entire business community on 110O feet of frontage on La Brea Ave. in front of the residential portion.

The project is so arranged that every room of the family units ranging from three and one-half rooms to six rooms, will have a view of a landscaped park. The buildings will be 100 feet apart and be designed to give every unit a private entrance and private patio. The community facilities will include a community building containing a prenursery school, workshops for tenants and many other features. There will be a garage for every unit and guest parking for about 1@0 cars. The structures will cover about 14 per cent of the site, the remainder to be landscaped park areas. Every modern convenience will be included in the housing.

Stokcs & Steele Lbr. Co. New S. F. Flrm

Brice M. Stokes and Ralph R. Steele, operating as mill agents and wholesale lumber dealers, took over on March I the business formerly operated under the name of C. T. O'Connor Lumber Co., with offices at 975 Monadnock Building, San Francisco.

Mr. Stokes has had 19 years' experience in the lumber business. He was associated with the late C. T. O'Connor since 1937. Before that he was with Kent Lumber Co., San Francisco, for the past 12 years.

Mr. Steele was with Fruit Growers' Supply Co. for the past 11 years, most of that time as assistant sales manager. He was with Chicago Lumber Co. of Washington, Oakland, from 1925 to l9D, and spent a number of years with other mills and wholesale concerns, giving him a total experience in the Ponderosa and Sugar Pine business of 21 years.

Opens Branch Store In South Gate

Glick Bros. Lumber Co.,8423 Alameda Street, Los Angeles, has opened a branch store at 8019 l-ong Beach Boulevard, South Gate. They will carry a complete stock of building materials. Lumber orders will be taken and filled from thdir main vard.

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