Huchow Reported Returning to. Normal Shanghai, June 27.
NEW -business district will be developed in Nanking within the next three months, according to plans of the Nanking Municipal Administration, of which Mr. Jen Yoh-tao is the Direc~ for. Areas on both sides of, Shansi Road, the residential district of Nanking before the Japanese occupation, have been marked out as the new business district, Blocks of new buildings will be constructed in this area and leased to merchants as shop premises reasonable rentals. Merchants de-siting to. secure portions of land Jwithin this district and to. construct [buildings of their. own designs will permitted to do so provided that they submit their plans to the Muni jeipal administration before the commencement of construction work.
'At the site of the former municipal [swimming pool off Hanchung Road will be erected several markets for' the numerous stall holders who now Jearry on their business on roadsides, Both Shansi and Hanchun Roads: jate in the northern part of Nanking. The "decision to select an area in the northern part as the new business district was reached in view of the fact that most of the shop buildings along Taiping Road, Chun Hwa Road and other streets were cither destroyed or badly damaged during the hostilities.
Funds required for the development of the new- business district have been set aside by the municipal administration.
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