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)Ulu-j Bell Co. to Open Robin jHood, New Subdivisioni Harvey, 111. in the last three years, has become such a well developedand closely built-in community thatit may astonish some people to hear j that quite a sizable piece of vacant , land, within six blocks of the I. C. station, has just been subdivided and offered for sale at quite low prices. The name of the new subdivision is Robin Hood, and it is being handled by a firm who have opened offices at 30 N. Michiganryin-le.totoaoflotanchngtinslyillnduea;inis-f U « •ir-ir-lystofedtotieIdis-edrilt;-a-i' i n-thinave., under the name of H. A. Bell Company.Robin Hood has been unavailable to the prospective home owner up to now because of being tied up in litigation over an estate, but a clear title to it has been finally acquired and Mr. Bell's plans, when carried out, will make it an idea) residential section. It possesses at once the advantages of both a town and country homesite, being bounded on the north and east sides by the Cook county forest preserves, the best equipped playgrounds in the county. To the residents of Robin Hood, the forest preserves will be what Jackson and Lincoln parks are to the residents of the north and south sides, with the additional advantages of having the great playground located at their very door.Robin Hood is not a subdivision of farm lands cut into parcels with four stakes around them called city lots, but is an addition to the rapidly growing city of Harvey.Founded Over 40 Year* AjjoHarvey, which was founded by Col. Harvey over forty years ago, had a premature development in World’s Fair days. Its real growth, however, came as a result of rapid transportation in the last few years, and it is now a solidly built-in community which has paid handsome profits to earlier real estate investors. One Hundred and Fifty-fourth st. is the ^ main business street of Harvey at present. The trend now, however, is decidedly‘to 147th st., which is the main east and west traffic artery through the heart of the Great Calumet industrial region. A future greater than that of 79th st. has been predicted for 147th st. and it is reasonable to expect that in the future it will be the main business street, not. only of Har-to run a bus line down 147th st. meeting all trains.For Homes or Apartment*From all angles Robin Hood looks like one of the best pieces of property put on the market in recent years. This, of course, is largely due to the fact already mentioned, that it was tied up by litigation andthus made inaccessible to the subdivider while a busy and prosperous i city grew up around it. The result j is that a vacant subdivision has . been put out on the market right in I the midst of high priced property, possessing every advantage that location can give for use as home or apartment sites. The natural supposition would be that this property itself would be sold for the high prices warranted but it seems that such is not the case. Robin Hood is being handled by a new organization headed by Harry A. Bell and to lessen the difficulty of building up a sales organization, Mr. Bell and his partners decided to sell the property as reasonably as possible. The result is that lots in Robin Hood are actually selling several hundred dollars cheaper thaiv, anything obtainable anywhere in the vicinity.It has been so arranged that, when improvements are put in, they can be paid for by the property owners in ten-year installments. The cost of such improvements, which are comparatively small, have been used by some subdividers who have installed them themselves as the basis for adding a good deal to the price of their property. The property owner in Robin Hood will pay for his improvements, at cost, and will pay the city of Harvey for them in easy installments and theresult in the end will be that hewill have his property improvements at two or three hundred dollars* 0per lot cheaper than other lots in the vicinity, with a poorer location.! This new addition has the further#advantage of being nicely restricted 1 to eliminate undesirable classes of citizens and to prohibit the building of unsightly shacks and yet not too severely restricted nor too high priced to eliminate the family of moderate means.ChUnilt;lt;lt;jei.ai applt; all 1Mr.locautwith and lineshie of b emb Thesma groi #spec stati emb coui maji Cha wou luxu‘FitIsent Cha:tionin c Thistreastre1ondspres remi timepemcrov maginto oftic themob!Beotnsv'!t'notP-f Hlibndho e-ou ut i* n iitCHIgSLUurhondng•e,at•Idraalatortiestreet.vey, but of Calumet City and Hammond as well.You will have some idea of the possibilities of Robin Hood, from an investment standpoint, when you know that it faces not only on 147th st., but on Ashland ave.. which is soon to be opened all the way through from the city as a superhighway and will undoubtedly become an important business street. South Halsted st., leading directly south from the heart of Chicago, runs within four blocks of Robinllood.So much for Robin Hood’s location in respect to traffic and business. It seems to be just as ideally located in other ways. Within three blocks of Robin Hood are two first class grade schools and six blocks away is the new $3,000,000 model high school, one of the finest of its kind in the country. Local grocery, meat, and drug stores and restaurant? are not over one to six blocks away. Harvey Public park withtennis courts, swimming pool and playgrounds is within two and a half blocks from Robin Hood. These recreational facilities are in addition to the 850 acres of forest preserves immediately adjacent to Robin Hood. To mention transportation again, the resident of Robin Hood has less than a six-block walk from his home to the Illinois Cen-tral station located on 147th st. From there it is a thirty-minute ride on fast electric trains to the loop. The I. C. is also planningBell Head* Sale* ForceHarry 9. Bell, who is handling | the sale of Robin Hood, has been engaged for the last three years in buying and selling acreage for subdivision purposes on the southwest side. Prior to that time, Mr. Bell was in business in Detroit, Michigan, where he has some execellent devel-| opments to his credit, one of them being Harry A. Bell’s Ferndale Gardens in the Springwells section of Detroit. Mr. Bell has an associate member of the firm, Harry J. Collis,I who is known in country club cir-cles as one of America’s best golf course architects. The company has been fortunate in securing the services of Charles E. Miles, as direc-I tor of sales, who has had wide experience in the handling of sales organizations in Chicago for the last twelve years. As general sales manager, the company has acquired the services of Eugene V. Douvan, who has been very successful during the last year as divisional sales manager for Branigar Bros, of Chicago. Harry E. Morgan, well known for the last twenty years in the Harvey. Floss-’ moor and Olympia fields district, j has taken the position of general i manager of the Harvey office.Robin Hood homesites are apparently far too good a value to lastvery long. Mr. Bell has decided to sell the addition as quickly as possi-' ble and he seems to have struck the right method, that of selling property possessing all of the requirements of an. ideal place to live, at a price none of his competitors can meet.. % t rjv1 are seek fall I selliUhindwith' Kenlt; portingaMwarimaj in tRi not hide! of 1CI cate by i rttu thin deal crou A c Itthis susi areLThe first hanging in Illinois was held on September 3, 1821, and resulted from thev conviction of the survivor in the state’s only recorded I duel, near Belleville.CoA!I 66
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Chicago Englewood Times
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Fri, Aug 19, 1927
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