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News of an alleged recession and rumors of new super highways bypassing Deming failed to dim the en thusiasm of at least two Deming motel owners who look to a bright future in tourist travel through this area. This was indicated yesterday with the release of building permits for the first 414 months of 1958 in the Village of Deming by City Administrator Ed Hooten. Approximately $85,000 is being expended on new motel units within the village’s corporate limits, it was revealed. Ground has been broken for a new 25-unit motel at the western limits of Deming and construc tion is well underway on 11 ad ditional units at a Pine street motel. S. J. Barclay is building the all new motel across from the Triangle Drive-in on West Pine. It will cost approximately $50 - 500 for the building alone. It is being constructed of cinder blocks, Barclay’s son, Kurt, is owner of the palatial Skytel Motel in the same area of the city. The eleven additional units are being added to the ultra-modern Balboa Lodge motel at 713 West Pine, owned by Bob Pierce. This building is being constructed of cinder blocks and will cost $33, 600 for the building alone. Pierce was optimistic over the future of Deming as a tourist center and is going ahead with his expansion plan despite rum ors of a further business reces sion and the bypassing of cities by super highways of the future. “The knowledgable more peo ple are not worry about bypass ing Via Supe: highways,”’ Pierce told this Leming Graphic staff er. He added that moving heavy through traffic out of the con gested area will not materially effect tourist business, in his op inion. The issuance of building per mits got away to a slow start in the Village of Deming at the opening of 1958 but rose sharply in April and May when permits were issued for the new motel and for the addition of new units to another. This was shown in figures re leased this week by Ed Hooten, city administrator. (See accom panying chart.) During the first 22 days of May, this year, Hooten said building permits had reached a figure of nearly $60,000. Building permits during the first four months of 1957, accord ing to M Hooten’s compilations, show a total of 43 residential permits, valued at $217,000 and eight commercial building per mits, valued at $24,000. The large residential permit total during early 1957 resulted from permits being issued for house construction in a subdivi sion area, Mr. Hooten explained.
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Deming Graphic
Deming, New Mexico, US
Mon, May 26, 1958
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