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ATLAS BUILDING WAREHOUSE, COST EXCEEDS $18, 000

Newest Addition Will Be In Corrugated Steel; Lean-to Planned

READY IN MARCH

[Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 1 February 1940]

Foundation pillars have already been laid for the erection of a new corrugated steel sheeting warehouse and lean-to on East Main street for Atlas Steels Limited, according to plant officials. The new building will be completed toward the end of March, and will cost approximately $18,000. It will be on similar lines to the rolling mills for which a building permit was issued in December to the value of $14, 675.

Standard Steel Construction Company Limited of Port Robinson will have the contract. The building will have a frontage on East Main street of 100 feet with a depth of 157 feet, it was learned.

This is to be a storage building and will not involve any additions to the payroll, The Tribune was informed. The warehouse will be 80 feet frontage, with a depth of 157 feet, and the lean-to will have a frontage of 20 feet and a depth of 157 feet.

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