"Commerce Building at the southeast corner of Broadway and Olive street was sold by Jacob M. Wittels and Associates to Louis J. Glickman, a New York investor."
The top seven floors of the Columbia Building are scheduled to be demolished. Scaffolding can be seen around the exterior of the lower levels, where a candy store remains, and a Hemphill Construction truck is parked on the street.
Two sets of stone pillars flank the entrances to this squat and substantial building at 14-16 South First street, now occupied by the Prunty Seed Company, which has been in business since 1874.
"This is the Leu Building, which was completed in January, 1949, in University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Mo. Pedestrians and motorists little realize that up on the roof is a large oil burning National heating boiler and automatic storage water heaters, which supply heat and hot water to three stores, four efficiency apartments and nine business offices."