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NEWS ABOUT WELLAND SOUTH
Owners Have Spent Over $10,000 in Improvements
Business Section Laid Out in This Sub-Division
[Welland Telegraph, 20 February 1912]
The Telegraph has just had an interview with the manager of the Canadian General Securities Corporation, Limited, of Toronto, the owners of the Welland South estate, a sub-division at the south end of Welland adjoining the factory section.
The company reports that they are as rapidly as possible developing Welland South into a workman’s high class residential district. Recently they have taken over the Alfa Hanna property, lying between the canal and the Michigan Central Railroad. They have had built as entrances to this property two very handsome concrete pillars on Broadway, just across the canal from the steel plant and immediately adjoining Welland South station on the electric railway.
The company spent a great deal of money, in the neighborhood of $10,000, during the past season in grading streets, laying sidewalks and doing general improvement work for the benefit of their clients who are purchasing property through them, and for the benefit of the workmen in the factory section who will eventually live on this property.
Only a few homes were built on the property before winter set in, but the residences which were erected are good, and if the buildings built in this sub-division in the future are in keeping with those already there, then Welland South will surely be the choicest section from a residential standpoint in the factory district. We are informed that several lots in this property have been sold to Toronto contractors, many of whom have already gotten out plans and commenced active preparations for building houses and stores in Welland South this coming season.
One street running through the centre of the property has been made ninety feet wide and is named Young Street. This street is intended for the business street of the district, and no lots are being disposed of on this thoroughfare except to parties who will agree to build a store thereon within a reasonable length of time.
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