02/05/1924 Board of Public Works Minutes

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73i V Board me-t• in regular session it, 9:00 A.M. All members present. Mr. W. W. Austin, A. B. Thielens and Atty. B. S. Strickland of -the Studebaker Corporation appeared before the Bpard.in regard to the widening of Sample St. This improvement was discussed but, no action taken. I Councilman Hardmn aEppeared before the Board and requested that alley in Augustine Addition be vacated. Resolution ordered.for_same on presentation of proper petition. Atty. John Yeagley appeared befeae't,he Board representating parties who intended to erect a $300.000.00 Hotel consisting of 140 rooms on lot on W. Colfax r Avenue.where:Willism Street is to be extended thru by the City, and stated that parties were refused a permit yesterday but really had started work on said above mentioned lot. Mr. Yeagley stated Mr. Hayden was purchasing property and Mr. Paxton and his b"Miar were financing it, also that a Chicago Architect has prepared plans and contracts was let and the State Board has approved all plans for such building, but the City Building Department had refused permit. Atty Yeagley stated if City was going than.with Opening of William Street that building project would be postponed at present+. Board agreed to meet Atty. Yeagley and discuss this matter and in the meantime all work on this building project, is to be postponed. The following resolution was adopted by the Board. CONDEMNATION RESOLUTION NO. 83. 1924. Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the C.tty,of South.Bend, Indiana: That the, following described property be appeoptrat*4 for the use of -said City: Beginning on the north line of Colfax Avenue 6t a point seven (7) feel, east, of ,the south west corner of Bank Out lot No. 149 Thence north parallel with and seven (7) faet east of the east line of -Bank Out Lot No. 149 and of Bank Out Lot No, 9, First Addition of Out Lots by State Banks of Indiana, to the south line of La Salle Avenue; thence east along the south line of La Salle Avenue te'the east line of lot, 3 in William Miller's Suvdivision of Bank Out Lois 8 and 9: thence south -along the east line Of said lot 3. and, said line produced south to the north line of Colfax Avenue, thence west•alo:ng the north line of Colfax Avenue to the p1Ace of beginning. Also beginning on the north line of La Salle Avenue at the southeast corner of lot-13 Chapn's Suvdivision of Bank Out Lots 1 and 2, thence nirth to the southeast corner of lot 12, Chapta's Subdivision of Bank Out Lots la do 29 thence northeasterly along the easterly lion of said lot 12 bo the southerly line of Lincoln Way West, thence north- westerly along the southerly line of.Lincoln Way West to .the northwest corner (ff said lot 12, to a public alley, thence southwesterly and southeRee&*-1y and ansst side of said public alley to the north line of La Salle Avenue, thence east along the north line bf Ls Salle Avenue to the place of.bebinning. Also beginning at the intersection of the northline of Marion Street and the east line of Wood Street produced north, thence in a northwesterly direction to a point where the northerlK line of Portage Avenue produced -southeasterly intersects the south line of Navarre Street, thence west to the northwest corner of Lot 69 Burrough's Suvdivision of bank out lot # 1151 thence south along the west line of said lot 6 to a point where a 11ne parallel to and eighty (80) feet. distant (measured at right angles) fromthe-above described line extending from the north line of Marion Street to the south line of Navarre'Street intersects said west, line of said.lot 6 thence southeasterly, parallel to and eighty (80) feet distant (measured at right angles from the above mentioned line extending From the north line of Marion Street tothe south line of Navarre Street, to the north line of Marion Street, thence east along the north line of Marion Street to the place of beginninn, being parts•of lots, 53,54, 55 and 56 of Henricks and Grant's Northwest Addition to the Town of South Bend and of lots 5 and 6 of Burrough's Subdivision out lot #115 of the first P13t of Out Lots of the Town of South Bend by the Stare of Indiana. The following described property may be injuriously or benefically affected by such appropriation:- Beginnivg on the north line of South Street and th&center line of the first alley west of William Street, thence north along the center line of said alley to a point one hundred and forty ,eight and one half (148-g) feet south of the south line of Washington Ave., thence west parallel to and one hundred and forty eight and one half (148') feet south of the south line of Washington Avenue to the west line out Lot #26 produced of the First Audition of Out lots by the State Banks of Indiana; thence north, along the west line of said Out Lot #26 and said west line proftood, to the alley south of La Salle Avenue, thence west along said alley south of La Salle Avenue to the center of La Porte Avenue, tha once northwesterly along the center line of La Avenue to the center of Oak Street thence easterly along the center of Oak Street to a point one hundred and fifty (150) feet east of the west line of Allen Street; thence north parallel to and