The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 128

Realty Unit to Hear Talk on Railroad Thomas E. Hammill, manager of properties, Union Pacific Railroad will be the guest speaker at the dinner meeting, Wednesday, of the Realtors Junior Committee of the Los Angeles Realty Board. His topic will be "How a Railroad Growk -Wider." The meeting will be held in the sion. real estate profes- In the Lafayette Room of the Sheraton-West. The Realtors Junior Committee, members of the Los Angeles Realty Board, 39 years of age and younger, is a group formed to provide an education and social program for the younger members August High Noted Forest E.

Olson, realtors, have announced an all-time high of 702. listings taken during August, according to Donald K. Olson, vice president and director of sales. 2 SEPT. 10, 1967 ggg flltgtltfll 'gimeg ON THE LEVEL Business Hub Movinq West BY DICK TURPIN TimM Real Estate Mtor The looking glass of city planners, dreamers, architects and financiers seems to indicate a continuing westward and southward movement for the business hub of Los Angeles.

Elsewhere in this section, architect Charles Luckman predicts the evolution of a whole new business area in the vicinity of the planned convention and exhibit center at Pico Blvd. and Figueroa St That kind of development In the offing would follow the existing and marked trend away from the traditional Spring St. business heart of the city to Wilshlre the fc; Hipp i a I vWyl'lHifc main artery of new growth. Construction of the Occidental Center, the California Mart and the United California Bank Building are the few major, new downtown developments in recent years. Irene Westward Explained Architects Robert Langdon and Ernest Wilson, who in the past 10 OUT OF A Site Worth Seeing! Great hillside homes tucked away in the hills-of Malibu Canyon.

Malibu Canyon Park is a hidden village of distinctive homes with all LEASE SIGNED Mrs. Toni Liphort, Bullock's Realty Corp. employe, holds banner as Cyril Magnin, president of Joseph Magnin San Francisco, center, and Mahlon Arnetr, president of Bullock's Realty, discuss lease signing by Mag-nin's for store space at Fashion Square, La Habra, 40-acre shopping complex. the features you could wish. Joseph Magnin Joins Fashion Square Stores 3, 4 jS 5 BEDROOMS 2 VA BATHS Appraisers to Hear State Controller SINGLE STORY, TWO STORY from $24,950 jT-h PifX-' 's.

Malibu oiRECTioNSt I 1 CfmV'''7 Cany" From thi Venture Wo north 4 Asi v.v.Sv and into Malibu -H SALES OFFICE; C.nyM Park. 4 HV al 213T S89-S383 lT SSsOSS 1 X. '2'mt -f Calibasai, Art i Elegant Malibu Canyon Park Townhouses from em California to become a major tenant in one of its shopping complexes. The Joseph Magnin store, Bullock's and Buf-fums' will serve a3 "anchor" stores at the 40-acre Fashion Square now under construction at Imperial and Beach Blvds. in La Habra.

The center is scheduled to open next Aug. 10 and will include a community building, La Casita, for use of community and civic activities. Arnett said the space leased to Magnin commits 88 of Fashion Square. Magnin pointed out tliat the new store would be the 32nd in the chain of Joseph Magnin stores in California and Nevada. Fashion Square, master-planned by Welton Becket Associates, will include spacious malls and plazas and will have landscaped parking areas for more than 3,000 cars.

It will serve Whittier, La Mirada, Brea and Fullerton in addition to La Habra. Coldwell, Banker Co. are leasing agents. Houston I. Flournoy, state controller, will discuss the "Probate Appraisal System inxCalifornia" at the September meeting of the Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Real Estate Appraisers, according to Richard B.

Sullivan, president. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, in the Chalon Mart, 1919 S. Broadway. Thomas E.

O'Neil, chief appraiser for the Equitable Savings Loan Van Nuys, will present the monthly brief report on "Cooperative Non-Profit Data Bank." Flournoy, who advocated abolition of the controversial appointive appraiser system during his election campaign in 1966, will be introduced by Charlie McNabb, vice president and program chairman. Harrison J. Baker secretary-treasurer of the chapter, was recently appointed by Flournoy to the inheritance tax appraisal panel in Los Angeles County to serve the Pasadena court. years have designed 17 buildings on Wilshire Blvd. of which 10 are over eight stories in height, cite reasons for the trend westward.

Footage in Los Angeles has become increasingly difficult to assemble into a suitable site for high-rise office buildings. Piecemeal acquisition i3 the order of the day, they contend, while on Wilshire, intact land parcels are larger and demolition problems are smaller. Cost of land in the central city is higher than that along Wilshire, with downtown land currently selling from $60 to $70 a square foot ($9,000 to $10,000 a frontage foot) compared with $27 to $30 a square foot ($4,000 to $4,500 a frontage foot) on Wilshire, the architects said. "Land costs are obviously on the rise on Wilshire, the records indicating a $10 to $11 increase per square foot during the past five years. But the cost differential remains," they add.

Lesser Assessed Valuation The lower. cost of Wilshire Blvd. land naturally Involves a lesser assessed valuation, hence lower taxation, they said, and this inherent tax advantage invites corporate attention. The Langdon-Wilson thinking deems the central city as confined with little or no open space to offer in an area of long established urban density. On the other hand, the Wilshire sector has maintained its spaciousness, they point out.

"This is an appealing factor to the corporate body wanting to stretch its legs the western look." The trend to high-rise complexes and landscaped malls along Wilshire adds another incentive to the corporate move. The architect is challenged to exercise his art in providing a "people" environment for businesses seeking escape from the metropolitan confinement. Off-Street Parking Each new high-rise appearance on the Wilshire scene draws attention to the contrasting environments and gives impetus to the trend, they believe. Another factor is off-street parking. Buildings on Wilshire constructed during the last decade have been required to provide it in the ratio of one space for every 500 square feet of structure.

Downtown, the ratio remains at one car space for every 1,000 square feet of building. In a car-oriented city, such advantages are obvious. The architects, looking ahead, predict that if a Wilshire rapid transit route is completed, population in business and adjacent multiple dwelling unit areas is certain to triple. This will inevitably draw additional, refined commercial activity. As the value of Wilshire area land increases, higher high-rise will follow but the already established pattern of landscaped plazas and air space between buildings should continue.

Finally, the architects declare that Wilshire Blvd. has established an identity all its own and should be architecturally contrasted, not compared, with the world's historic thoroughfares. think the boulevard's identity or personality is bound to achieve much greater recognition. DIAMOND HILL A Close-in Tract in Carioga Park CL0Si-y? 1 2 Story Homes Seven Rooms, 3 4 Bedrooms, 2 2'i Baths, 2100 sq. ft.

of floor space. 70 ft. lots. The Joseph Magnin has become the third major store to reserve space in the planned 40-store Bullock's Fashion Square in La Habra. The announcement was made jointly by Cyril Magnin, president of the Joseph Magnin firm of San Francisco, and Mahlon Arnett, president of Bullock's Realty which other such shopping centers.

Lease-signing between the Magnin and realty firms was the first time the department chain had ever entered into such an agreement with Bullock's and initial instance when the latter has invited a store' outside South- Mortgage Brokers to HearNeal The Mortgage Brokers Institute will hear Charles Neal, financial analyst, at their 7:30 p.m. Thursday dinner meeting at the Century Plaza. He will discuss recent trends in real estate financing and future market developments, according to B. J. Zimmerman, MB I president.

Jefferson E. Peyser, the institute's legislative representative, will review the California Legislature's last session. Priced from Go onm block North of Porthtma on Toponga Canyon llvd. to Grosham SI. LOCATION: west on viresnam to trait.

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