V E LOP M EN T t0 (NO 1 V , ,4 - R E A L E DISPLAY AND S T A T E CLASSIFIED iSliililfi -S-M fax . - -'feav Ttrin iffr ?-fft, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER, 28, 1937 Emeryville Claims Proud Title as Biggest Little Industrial City in the World . mi iiiamN n " By E. VAN RIRBINK Development Editor Emeryville not only is the Indus-rial Renter of Metropolitan Oakland, but now is in a position to claim title as "the,, biggest little industrial city 'in the world," according to William P. St. Sure, chairman of the Metropolitan Oakland Committee. Industrial and residential statistics gathered by the Metropolitan Oakland Committee has revealed some startling facts concerning Emeryville. During the1 past 10 months the city has had a $730 per capita industrial expansion. Despite the fact that tyhere are only 2240 persons livlngin Emery, ville, it has more than 6000 men and women on the payrolls of the 125 factories located there. These factories spent $1,635,000 in expand-ing their operations and constructing additions to present facilities during the past 10 months. This, is one-fifth , of the total Industrial and commercial development in" the entire Metropolitan Oakland area an area which has a population 23 times as great as Emeryville. "This city has an annual payroll in excess of $21,000,000," St. Sure stated, which is comparable to payrolls in cities much . larger than this. These factories u include branches of many Natioflally-known concerns such as Shell Development Company, Paraffine Companies, Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company, Westinghouse Electric Company, Sherwin-Williams Company and. Frigidaire Corporation. "Although Emeryville essentially is an Industrial city it has 5320 single family homes of which 5254, or 98.7 per. cent, are occupied. This occupancy percentage of single family homes is one-tenth of one per cent higher than the entire Metropolitan Oakland. period there were five now hornet constructed in Emeryville, yet thera are 24 more homes occupied now then there were six months ago. "However, this same relative con dition exists throughout Metropolis tan Oakland. The increase in popu lation has been greater than the number of new residences constructed. " 1 "rhifintf 4V 1A wtnnfVi- fit 1937 there were permits issued In Emeryville for the construction of $4000worth of residences as compared with $10,500 for the same period a year ago. s "While thai residential construc tion has fallen off, the industrial "During the past six month's the occupancy percentage of homes in Emeryville has risen from 98.4 to the present figure, while the increase throughout , the metropolitan area only has risen one-tenth of one per cent, ' "During . the same six-month Jxristruction has shown an increase. St. Sure stated that the housing conditions have become so critical, not alone in Emeryvilletmt throughout the Metropolitan Oakland area, that every effort now is being made by the committee to provide shelter for the thousands of new residents expected during the next year. -MS A LESSON FROM THE RAIN Notice how the recent storms have soiled the lower walls of man v homes, through the spattering of uncontrolled water dripping from the edges of the roofs. Then inspect the attractive white walled homes in Oak Knoll along Mi r as ol Avenue. Note the cleanliness Community Interest High With opening of the new Low-Level Tunnel only one week away, and with residents moving into their new homes on the property, interest in Lakewood Estates, new residential community just east of Walnut Creek, is at a high pitch, according to R. N. Burgess, of the Lakewood Co., Ltd., developers of the property. ; "People are just beginning to realize .what a tremendous saving in time the tunnel will make in their going to and from Lakewood Estates," said Burgess. "East Broadway, as we hope the new eastern approach to the tunnel will soon be called officially, makes travel time from the tunnel to the Estates a matter of just a few minutes; the tunnel itself, eliminating the present tiresome climb over the Coast range, and an equally annoying descent on the other side, will make at least as great an improvement. "Within the past few days four home-builders have moved into their new homes in Lakewood Estates, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brooke,. Mrs. E. A. Watson, Mr. and Mrs,. S. C Eubank and Mrs. Walter S. Malloch. The Brooke home is on La Loma Avenue, the Eubank home on Homestead Avenue and the other New Residential Housing '-! Here Far Behind Requirements Although 4279 more families are living in the'Eastbay urban area at this time than resided here in March, building permits for less than 2000 family housing units have been issued in this area since January 1, according to an Oakland Real Estate Board analysis of official building data and its tabulations of an occupancy survey recently conducted by the letter carriers of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and San Leandro. Residential construction since January of last year has amounted to more than half the total of all new construction for which permits were issued, although, according to the records of normal years, such construction customarily amounts to approximately 40 per cent of the total. New residential housing has been running far behind the re- of last year. qulrements of population increases, the records show. For the nine municipalities com prising this urban area, the totals of building permits issued for all types of construction and for single-family homes during the first ten months of 1937 and during the comparable period of last year, are as follows: All building, 10 months, 1937, 9742 permits, cost $14,468,799. San Francisco homes, 10 months, 1937, 1510 permits, cost $6,997,700. All building,- 10 months, 1936, 8905 permits, cost $13,402,378. San Francisco homes, 10 months, 1936, 1404 permits, cost $6,919,700. To the data for single-family homes may be added approximately 500 units of multifamily housing, flats and apartments, developed during the present year, and half that total for the comparable period Planner to Speak To Realty Dealers : wr-i y&im-: X:l , - V? wv v . 2 "lV Fine Piedmont Residence Open