1927-06-17-sc-p15-mattes-work-planned-se-monroe-indiana

June 17, 1927 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 15:

MONROE-INDIANA SOON WILL BE STARTED

“Construction of the new store building at Indiana and Monroe for the J. C. Penney company will start just as soon as the present tenants’ leases can be adjusted,” said H. J. Mattes, Reardan capitalist and lumberman, over the long distance telephone to the Chronicle today. "Some of the tenants’ leases have between two and three years to run, but I'm sure none will stand in the way of permanent improvements if we provide a satisfactory place in the meantime.

“The outlook for business in Spokane and surrounding country was never better than right now,” he continued. “There is every prospect of an enormous crop, and while the mines and timber resources are valuable assets to Spokane, it takes a bumper wheat crop to put over real prosperity.”

Start Moving House.

A. J. Jordan, house mover, started the first actual work today toward improvement at Indiana and Monroe in connection with the H. J. Mattes M. W. Sater realty deals announced Tuesday in The Chronicle. A large two-story frame house west of Monroe is being removed to make room for the Wesco Oil company’s mew service station.

Mrs. Ida Borrell, who sold her two-story frame residence and store building at W911 Indiana to Mr. Mattes, plans to vacate by next Tuesday that razing of the old building may begin.

While the lease of Pearson Brothers, garage owners, on Indiana, has three years yet to run, it was stated today that the razing of the Borrell building next week will allow for a hew brick garage, and the present garage will be torn down to make room for the proposed Mattes building Mr. Pearson stated that he would move to any place that Mr, Mattes might provide, just so it was in the block,

“Just when we will start building on the vacant property just south of the Mattes building, I can not say.”

said F. W. Sater, baker and grocer, today. “This part of the city looks the best ever to me, especially since the six or seven mile extension of the Coulee-Hite road was completed. This feeder to Spokane will bring trade to the Indiana-Monroe district—trade from Four Mound and Indian prairies that formerly, went south to the Sunset highway and into the city from the west.”

Ardent boosters who have done preliminary works in securing the names of property owners for an extension of the lighting system from Mallon to Indiana declare that the proposed new lighting system project would be taken up just as soon as President Coughlin of the Broadway-Monroe club returns from his vacation.