Independent Star-News from Pasadena, California • Page 11

fir VI 4 TALLEST IN EL MONTE A five-story office building developed by the Hirschmann Industrial Corp. of New York is currently under construction in the Gilbert-Flair Industrial Park in El Monte just off the San Bernardino Freeway. The $1.5 million structure, designed by Welton Becket will be completed next year. Leasing Proceeds Rapidly At Hirschmann Building Besidents at Lark Ellen Towers, 1350 E. San Bernardino West Covina, cite these advan ages 'til living in America's most (JistingnisheiJ retirement residences Lark Ellen JTowers requires no entry or registration fee.

Furnished and unfurnished bed- oom apartments and suites are available at annual or monthly ates. Every program for living at Cark Ellen Towers Includes aH meals, housekeeping, telephone, utilities, linens end color TV. A special medical program, and an adjacent fully staffed and equipped modern hospital, integrated with Medicare to according connected Freeway building's building. oJ floor Leasing Is proceeding rapidly en the Hirschmann building, a distinctive live-story i structure in El Monte's Gilbert-j Flair Industrial Park, which has just been topped out, to Carl Hirschmann, president ol The the Hirschmann Industrial Corp. of Long Island, N.Y., developers of the project.

The $1.5 million buiding, the tallest in El Monte, fronts on the San Bernardino and will become the regional headquarters of the Hirschmann Corp. which will occupy the fifth floor. The Hirschmann Corp. is an international firm specializing in precision machinery and equipment. As planned, designed and engineered by Wclton Becket and Associates, architccls and engineers, the 83,000 sq.

ft. reinforced concrete building contains 55,000 sq. ft. of office space, more than 20 per cent of which has been leased while the building is still under construction. Majestic Really Co.

of Angeles is the leasing agent. Currently negotiations are under way to lease a portion the ground floor to a major restaurant operation. "We feel that El Monte is in need of a fine restaurant to serve the growing list of executives i live and work in the surrounding area," Hirschmann said. The site for the complex was selected due to the growing demand for office space away from congested metropolitan areas. "Our building will the tenants in close proximity to the entire Southern California freeway system and only 10 minutes from Los Angeles' Civic Center and its financial district," Center and its financial district, Hirschmann added.

The fully air-conditioned building will provide first class office space with interior design concepts similar to those offered in major metropolitan office buildings including high- speed, electronic elevators, floors designed on a modular system with polarized fluorescent lighting fixtures and air- conditioning integraled in de- mountable ceilings, and movable partitions. "Flexibility throughout office suites and showrooms will be achieved through the absenci of interior columns and the placement of exterior columns outside the glass line," said MacDonald Beckel, executive of vice president of the architec- tural firm. Adding to the completely unobstructed floors' flexibility is the location of the elevator core in a separate shaft which is to the main building, arrangement will permit location of a naturally lighted corridor on one side of each loor. Strength and vertical symmetry will be reflected in will design through bold, white poured-in-place concrete columns, and richly textured panels at the ends of the structure. Floor-to-ceiling glass walls will be recessed one foot from the face of the vertical concrete grillwork to create a contrast pattern of light and shadow across the facade.

Each' window panel will incorporate a pane ol polished glass in a neoprene glazing seal. The four upper floors will appear to float above a recessed covered promenade around the The architect's design calls for upper stories to project outward from the ground columns. The glass enclosed, single- Realtor Board Slated to Hear Noted Attorney place Aspects Marvin Starr, Oakland attor ney, will speak on "The Lega' of the Realtor to Boll- Buyer and Seller" at the luncheon meeting of the Pasadena Board of Realtors to be held Wednesday, Oct. 19. Starr's talk will surprise many seasoned sales people and brokers and send shivers of apprehension over a large portion of the audience as they learn how close they may have come to a suit for damages, according to Wayne BrannOn, program chairman.

The presenlalion is guaranteed to enlighten and stimulate all concerned to further their education in the legal aspects of real estate. Starr is co-author of the new three-volume work, "The Current Law of California a Estate," and is a author to many legal publica- tios. Special tribute will be given to the Women's Council division the Board of Realtors at the luncheon meeting. contributing vanced story base will be T-shaped, ex- ending outward on either side of the building to provide an additional 3,000 sq. ft.

of prime space. The structure will be Jlaced in the center of a lushly- landscaped plaza. Parking for 238 automobiles will be conveniently located in the fully landscaped areas adjoining the site. Guest parking be situated near the entrance of the building. Becket is also currently designing a second office building the Hirschmann Corporation be located near Chicago's O'Hare Airport.

Cures Of Tight Money To Be Discussed "Where Did the Lenders will be the'subject of a talk by Robert D. Norton, a Coast Fed eral vice president, at the meeting of the Building Contractors San Gabriel Valley Chap ter, at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 18 at Hen ry's Santa Anita in Arcadia. In his talk, Norton will re view the current shortage 6 money available for real estate lending, to causes am likely cures. He will point ou "not only are people saving les 'from 8 per cent of income down to under 5 per cent) bu other sources are competing more effectively for what sav ings there are.

"In addition, the over-supply of housing created since Work War II is- finally coming home to roost." He contends "as this housing surplus is absorbed, am as the expected increase in fam ily formation takes place in 1967-68, demand for real estate lending will go up, and Savings and Loans will reaffirm their place as the specialists in pro ioting home ownership through such lending." Norton is a member of Coasl Federal Savings' Free Enterprise Speakers bureau. He is a graduate of Occidental College, and is a Navy of World War: II. After graduate work at USC and Cal State, he joined Coast Federal in 1950, where he ad through the ranks' from a teller to vice president and manager of the Santa Monica Branch office. He is also guest lecturer for the American Management Assn. and in local colleges.

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Lou Miller of the Plaster Institute and Lou Gable of Highland Stucco will offer up-to-date news on the recently approved rapid plastering system. Virtually every point of interest, cultural attraction or sporting event in the lower half of the state lies within an hour's driving time of the Towers. According to Dr. a Mintz, executive director of the nine-story, 176-unit apartment complex, tours lor prospective Marino residenls are available daily. Realtors' Calendar MONDAY.

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