A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . - andfederal authorities commenced to negotiate for the purchase of therequired sites. Such transactions always consume much more timethan is anticipated, and although, as a rule, property owners werereasonable and public spirited, decisive condemnation proceedingshad to be resorted to at times. Being a civil project, these stepswere legally taken, as a matter of course. The fii-st parcels of landpurchased (in 1902) were on Lakeside and Summit avenues, along thelake front, and between these thoroughf
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . - andfederal authorities commenced to negotiate for the purchase of therequired sites. Such transactions always consume much more timethan is anticipated, and although, as a rule, property owners werereasonable and public spirited, decisive condemnation proceedingshad to be resorted to at times. Being a civil project, these stepswere legally taken, as a matter of course. The fii-st parcels of landpurchased (in 1902) were on Lakeside and Summit avenues, along thelake front, and between these thoroughfares, along East Sixth The Federal Building In 1906, the Case property was purchased, including the city hallblock bounded by Lakeside and Summit avenues and Third anil Ninthstreets; the site for the federal building liad alread,y been boughtand ground broken for that structure. The payment for the entirepurchase from the Case estate amounted to $1,900,000, and up to1910, when the sites for the three main structures planiud in thecivic group had been bought, over $3,655,000 had been expended onthese items—for the court-house site, acres, $1,095,675; the cityhall site, acres, $404,899; the nuill, acres, $2,155,180. acres, at a cost of $3,655,754. It is estimated tliat about $1,500,000 of property along the mallis yet to be acquired before the group jjlan will be practically com-pleted. o oo o 2! •Jl o 2;
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