BUILDING ACTIVITY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3086, 17 May 1917, Page 6

BUILDING ACTIVITY

9 : THE RECONSTRUCTION OF COL'RTENAY PLACE.

There is a good deal of building activity in Wellington at the present time. In Courteaiay Place this is particularly evident. That growing thoroughfare is humming with building life. Tho new Lyrio Theatre, which is to scat 1000 people, is now approaching completion, and already the shops that occupy tho frontage are tenanted. A company has secured a lease of the theatre from the owner, Mr. J. J. Williamson. A little, farther along, Mr. C. A. Griffiths is erecting another fine block of shops, and has acquired further land in the same vicinity for future building operations. On the western side of the Tory Street intersection the Dominion Motor Vehicles, Ltd., are erecting substantial offices and showroom premises on the section next to the Albion Hotel (which will back on to the 1 company's big garage in Tory Street). Nearer Taranaki Street Messrs. Mace and Nicholson Are building an addition to a private hotel, and Messrs. A. and T. Burt are about to carry out some minor extensions to their building in that locality. A company formed in Wellington has secured tho lease of promises in Manners Street, which it is proposed to 'convert into a largo and highlydecorative summer and winter' drink cafe, on the lines of others already established in AVellington. ' Messrs. Hoggard and Prouse have completed plans for a large building to be erected for the Dominion and Commonwealth Line and New Zealand Shipping Company, conjointly, on that valuable section adjoining- Levin and Co.'s. warehouse on Customhouse Quay. This structure would have been under way ere this but for the difficulty in securing building steel, but this difficulty has been got over by adopting the reinforced concrete system. The block promises to be one of tho finest on the waterfront.