Glendale lists New Factories; Crystalite will double it's plant

Southland City Notes Tremendous Increase in Industrial Expansion

GLENDALE LISTS

NEW FACTORIES

Industrial Expansion Seen

for Future

Many Manufacturers Plan

Plant Addition

City Seeks to Obtain More

Enterprises

GLENDALE. June 22. (exclusive) Industrial expansion in the Glendale area is going forward by leaps and bounds, with more construction on factory buildings under way, and with more prospects for manufacturers negotiating for locations than at any time m the last three years.

One index of the industrial growth of the Glendale district is seen in the fact that five factories, established here within the last eighteen months, are now actually embarked upon, or are contemplating in the immediate future, enlargements of their plants. Some of the plants call for doubling the present size of the factories, while others will mean an even greater expansion.

Surveys conducted by L. H. Wilson, chairman of the Industrial committee of the Chamber of Commerce and president of the Glendale Realty Board, reveal that in the last year and one-half only two industrial firms have gone out of business in this section, and these dissolutions were due almost entirely to difference between the partners composing the two firms.

EXPANSION PLANNED

Examples of the firms that are planning expansion of their factories are the Overhead Door Company, 541-543 West Garfield street, which opened for business last September and that is now demanding four times the space in its present plant. The Everwear Sign Company, 1210 South San Fernando Road, that has doubled its floor space inside the past year and that now must enlarge its plant to three times its present capacity; Crystalite Products Corporation, 1708-1718 Standard avenue, that will double its plant within the next few weeks; the Alloil Lubo Corporation, 1728 Standard avenue, that his contracted for the erection of a building to afford twice the present facilities and that plans shortly to move its laboratories to the new site here, and The Pacific Pathe Record Corporation, 1733 Standard avenue, that started production on January 1, 1929, doubled its plant once since that time and now must treble its present space.

The area immediately adjacent to the Southern Pacific tracks is filling up with factories. West Garfield street shows seven factories that had been standing vacant for some time now have tenants. The same condition prevails on west Windsor Road and L .H. Wilson, Industrial expert, and head of L. H. Wilson, Inc., real estate brokers, is now erecting six buildings to house industries whose executives have signed leases for extended terms.

The concentration of industries in the city is shown by the fact that, on one block on Standard avenue, twelve firms are employing more than 400 skilled workmen, and the increase in the size of several of these plants will mean additional employment, more pay rolls, more residents for the city, and a greater volume of new wealth that these industries will create to stimulate the city's commercial life.

ADVANTAGES SHOWN

Several factors enter into the expansion of Glendale's industrial district. Proximity to Los Angeles and its railroads as well as to the harbor, low initial cost of factory sites, small labor turnover, low priced gas for power, and good roads contribute to the advantages that factory owner demands.

In addition to the markets in American and for Glendale products several firms are invading foreign fields. The Pacific Pathe Record Corporation, with a daily capacity of 15,000 phonograph records, is shipping to Russia and the Orient; Crystallite [sic] Crystalite Products Corporation is already firmly established in the Orient and Australia, New Zealand and several countries of South America; the Glendale Glass Tile Co., although the bulk of its product is sold to dairy companies in Southern California, has still been able to form profitable export connections with Mexico and the Hawaiian Islands, and other firms are also making a successful bid for the export trade.

At a time when many sections of the country are complaining of business depression, Wilson declares, Glendale is progressing because of its policy of encouraging sound, well-established firms to locate here, selecting industries that are suited to this locality and helping them to become active in this area only after their executives have been convinced that Glendale offers definite advantages that cannot be found in the same degree elsewhere.