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Downtown 2000, the $4 million revitalization project, will primarily affect Huntington Drive and First Ave. Huntington Drive will have more landscaping and lighting, while First Ave. will have angled parking and landscaping to be more pedestrian oriented.

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Sierra Madre News
Date
January 19, 1995
Pages
p. 13
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Sierra Madre News
Date
January 19, 1995
Pages
p. 13
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
4356AN
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Construction crews began digging up streets and sidewalks along Huntington Drive in June for the City's Downtown 2000 Renovation Project. Traffic jams, frustrated customers and declining sales have been the result.

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Pasadena Star News Hometown
Date
August 10, 1995
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p. H1
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Pasadena Star News Hometown
Date
August 10, 1995
Pages
p. H1
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
4725AN
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City Council members voted 4-0 to change lighting plans and add a new storm drain system to the Huntington Drive streetscape project, changing the cost from $4.1 to $5.6 million.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 16, 1995
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p. H-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 16, 1995
Pages
p. H-3
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
4362AN
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The urban design team of Freedman, Tung, and Bottomley made its first recommendations to develop the city's Downtown Revitalization Plan. Ideas included removing parallel street parking along Huntington Drive and adding eight pedestrian crosswalks, as well as creating themes based on Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper195
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 25, 1993
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p. A-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 25, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
195AN
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The addition of a new hotel on the corner of Second Avenue and Santa Clara Street in Arcadia would bring an additional 159 rooms to an area which already boasts eight hotels along a one mile stretch of the Huntington Drive corridor.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 21, 1997
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p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 21, 1997
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Hotels, Motels, etc - Hilton Garden Inn
Item ID
9885AN
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The City will pay $1.25 million to the Sully Miller Contracting Co. to settle a breach-of-contract lawsuit the company filed after it was fired from the Downtown 2000 project.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 7, 1997
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 7, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Community Redevelopment - Downtown 2000
Item ID
8855AN
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After two weeks of delays, construction work has resumed along the downtown stretch of Huntington Drive and First Ave. City officials have hired a new contractor.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 31, 1995
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p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 31, 1995
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
4695AN
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The Arcadia City Council plans to seek more than $1 million in damages against its original contractor for cost overruns in the City's Downtown 2000 revitalization project.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 23, 1995
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 23, 1995
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
5490AN
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One year has passed since the Sully-Miller Contracting Co. filed a $2 million breach-of-contract suit against Arcadia, claiming the City illegally terminated it from the Downtown 2000 project.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 25, 1996
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 25, 1996
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Community Redevelopment - Downtown 2000
Item ID
7984AN
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Continuation of answers from the City to the most frequently asked questions about the Downtown 2000 revitalization project.

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Sierra Madre News
Date
January 11, 1996
Pages
p. 8
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Sierra Madre News
Date
January 11, 1996
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
5560AN
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Edison is scrambling to restore electricity to the Live Oak Avenue area affected by the Santa Ana winds.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 8, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 8, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Santa Ana Winds
Streets - Live Oak Avenue
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25041AN
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May Co. has bowed out of the proposed expansion of the Santa Anita Fashion Park. As a result, the project's price tag should drop from $75 million to approximately $32 million.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 19, 1992
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 19, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Fashion Park
May Co.
May Company
Item ID
45AN
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City Council approved lending the city redevelopment agency $1.2 million Tuesday to cover additional cost overruns with Downtown 2000 and other projects.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 17, 1996
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 17, 1996
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
6406AN
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Harris & Associates will design streetscape and landscape improvements for the Santa Anita Entry Corridor, meaning Santa Anita Avenue from Huntington Drive to the Foothill 210 Freeway and on areas adjacent to the Santa Anita Avenue and Baldwin Avenue freeway ramps. The project will include pavement work. The contract for the project is for $107,211.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 29, 2003
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p. 18
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 29, 2003
Pages
p. 18
Subjects
Harris and Associates - Harris & Associates
Landscaping
Item ID
31722AN
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The city is fighting against paying an additional $400,000 in legal costs to Sully-Miller's attorney for the Downtown 2000 project in which the city cancelled the contract with Sully-Miller and settled for $1.25 million.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 4, 1998
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 4, 1998
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Downtown 2000
Lawsuits
Item ID
26523AN
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Downtown 2000, the redevelopment project that has served as a lightning rod for discontent at City Hall, received an Award of Excellence this week from the California Redevelopment Association.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2000
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2000
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Community Redevelopment - Downtown 2000
Item ID
18861AN
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Oak Tree Racing Association's 1996 season started with a bang on October 2. Patrons discovered a new look with the $3.5 million improvement programs completed over the summer at Santa Anita Park race track.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 1996
Pages
p. 12
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 1996
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Oak Tree Racing Association
Santa Anita Park 1991 -2000
Item ID
25968AN
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City Council candidates answer questions on redevelopment, the Downtown 2000 project, and zoning restrictions in downtown.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 26, 1998
Pages
p. 14
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 26, 1998
Pages
p. 14
Subjects
City Council Elections - 1998
Item ID
26490AN
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The Board of Supervisors has approved a request from the County Department of Public Works to take over jurisdiction on the project to seismically retrofit transit bridges on Colorado Boulevard and Huntington Drive/Second Avenue. The board declared the portion of Colorado Boulevard under the bridge, as well as portions of Huntington Drive and Second Avenue under the transit bridge, to be part of the county system of roads and highways.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 7, 2002
Pages
p. 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 7, 2002
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Bridges
Seismic retrofitting
Item ID
30863AN
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The City of Arcadia answers some of the most frequently asked questions about the Downtown 2000 revitalization project.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper5716
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Sierra Madre News
Date
January 4, 1996
Pages
p. 8
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Sierra Madre News
Date
January 4, 1996
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
5567AN
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