Nielsen Building iAoteriols Completing Industriol Center in Solvqng

Construction was nearly complete last month of the Santa Ynez Valley's first induitrial center, the Valley Industrial Center, 1230 Nlission Drive, Solvang, Calif. Iir striking harmony with Solvang's Danish Provincial architecture,_the Center, located on Highway 150, will colorfully add to the westerly approach to town.

Under construction early this Summer were a 6-unit office building, three lumber warehouses and a millwork shop. Attractively landscaped, the spacious area will include paved roads, large, paved-parking areas and graveled storage areas. First completed was "Building 3,'t whose renters incJud_e a plumbing, electrical and painting contractor, and "Old Metalcraft Shop."

Niels_en Building Materials, Inc., owners and developers of the Center, will move from their location on Copenhagen Drive into their new buildings included in the Cenier: "Store Building No. 1, Warehouses Nos.4,6 and 7, and Shop No. 5."

The long-planned objective of this project is to make available to the allied building and construction trades of the Valley a unified grouping for customer convenience, attractively built and with rentals available to various firms'needs.

Identified as allied trades are: electrical, carpentry, plumbing, paint, sheet metal, heating, engineering Jnd di:sign, lumber, building materials, etc.

Available rentals on a lease basis will be the following: Six f50 sq. ft. offices or stores located in "Office Building No. 2," a number of shops or warehouses, custom designed-, and partitioned to the size required of the individual businesses, located in "fndustrial Building No. 3."

Adjoining the new Center, to the west, is the new home of Solvang Cement Products, Inc., attractively constructed along. the Danish Provincial lines. Also adjoining to the west is the Buellflat Rock, Gravel and Hot Mix plant.

Located to the south, Parcel 38, is the recently opened Southern Pacific Milling Company's Ready-Mix Concrete Plant, Solvang branch. Sanchez Bros., Contractors, have leased space, Parcel 3.A., for future development and expansion of their excavating, grading, paving and Class A Contracting business.

Nielsen Building Materials, Inc., in its 28 years of service to the Valley, has continuously striven to keep pace with the community, and to provide the services required of the progressive community of Solvang. The present step, the largest in the firm's history, is one of a series of important advancements.

The most significant event in the firm's history was its founding in 19-32 by C. V. Nielsen, as a generaf bnitalng contractor, and later building of its first structures on Copenhagen Drive.

Mr. Nielsen built many of the community's larger structures, including the first unit of the Santa Ynez Valley Union High School, the first unit of the Solvang Lutheran Home, part of Copenhagen Square, the new Nielsen's Market, auto courts and a number of ranch and private dwellings in the Valley area.

In 7949 the firm expanded from a general contracting business to a complete building materials sales organization. Additional buildings were created at its location fronting Mission and Copenhagen drives in Solvang. From 1949 to date the firm has expanded at this location with new land to the east and new store buildings.

As the building materials sales grew over the years, the firm has devoted more and more time to properly supplying and serving the many building contractors of the Val-

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