Another large apartment house will Jshdrtly be erected, just opposite the [Country Club, and should be extremely popular, in view of its [accessibility to the business section.
The old corner by Park Road, where Aris & Crafts carried on their business for so many years, is now being demolished, and the new bu ing to be erected there will be th: future home of Hall & Holtz Another large apartment house has been completed off Seymour Road, central site, within easy access of; town.
Tu the western part of French Concession, the most noticeable buildings Rearing completion, are Grosvenor }House, and the series of shops and Mats covering the Cardinal Mercier frontage. Further west, In Avenue Petain, two enormous apartment. houses are approaching completion.
At the, south end of Route Ghis, Janother enormous apartment building g-being externally completed, and dominates the area. While all these large buildings. in both the French Concession and International Settle- Danish ment are being constructed, it is amazing to note the number Jsmaller three-story apartment houses springing up in every direction, Reduction in Ren The question is. who is going to alt these and will It result in rents coming down?
In addition to. all this activity, there are literally thousands of Chlnese. semi-foreign houses being bull {In both areas. Several large develop ments in Avenue Foch have been Jcompleted and a miniature town has [sprung up_on a part of the Hardoon Estate on Seymour Road. Big groups lof these houses have been completed in Sinza Road, three more similar groups in Tifeng Road and another fat the western end of Bubbling Well Read. west, many, groups of, foreign residences are nearing completion, notfeeably in Edinburgh Road, where the open country of the past Hhas now almost completely disappear-Jed. and in Columbia Road where large group of six-roomed houses is ready for occupation,
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