Reprint from “Wichita This Week” article published in 1961 | Online search for “Wichita This Week publication” did not pull up any results for background information 2019/10/10
The proposed Parklane Towers luxury apartments that you buy instead of rent, is good news to modern-day “house-slaves.”
This $2-million dollar apartment house will provide luxury housing, without the lawn-care, house-care problems that beset the house owner in these days when servants are a scarce commodity.
The City Commission last week granted rezoning that will permit construction to start this month. The Towers should be completed within a year, said S. S. Platt,. architect and president of Parklane Towers, Inc.
The apartment house will be built near Lincoln and Bleckley Drive, directly behind Parklane Shopping Center. This is expected to be the first of eight such luxury apartment buildings, to be erected in two clusters of four buildings.
The 10-story building will have 79 apartments. Some of the features of the building are: a balcony for each apartment; a greenhouse on the roof where tenants can safely leave their house plants when they are away from home; air conditioning that is controlled individually in each apartment- one apartment can be heated, the next cooled if the occupants so desire, a bilevel parking garage with an attendant on duty; landscaping that will include a fountain at the building entrance.
The apartments will range from bachelor apartments to 3-bedroom units. Each is planned with an electric kitchen. Larger apartments will have two bathrooms.
It is the first time such luxury apartments, to be owned by the tenants, have been built in Wichita since the Hillcrest Apartments on Douglas were erected 34 years ago. [Online search establishes Hillcrest being built in 1927]
Please remember that that this “planned” article announced the project. Builders, Inc. completed just one of the Towers with 72 apartments and we do not have a greenhouse on top of our building. || If you know this publication, please let us know.
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