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Last month's California Supreme Court decision that eliminates redevelopment agencies may jeopardize the Rusnak Mercedes-Benz dealership's expansion plans. Last year, Arcadia's redevelopment agency acquired the final piece of a two-acre site to sell to owner Paul Rusnak to expand his business to 6 acres. Rusnak is one of the city's top sales tax generators and wants to open a 40,000 square foot showroom on Santa Anita Avenue, just one block from the future Gold Line station downtown.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32808
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Redevelopment Agency
Rusnak, Paul
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Item ID
33005AN
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Newspaper Index
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A proposed land deal will allow Rusnak Mercedes-Benz dealership to expand and Rod's Grill will not have to move. The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency has acquired the Dahlgren lot on Santa Clara Street, the last parcel of a 2-acre site it intends to sell to Rusnak. This sale would enable Rusnak to expand from 4 to 6 acres. A public hearing is scheduled for April 19. In addition to the recently acquired Dahlgren property, the current proposed site also includes the former Church of Arcadia on Morlan Place and a commercial strip along Santa Anita Avenue that contains 16 tenants. The proposed deal guarantees the city would receive at least $800,000 in sales tax a year for the next 10 years.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32372
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Arcadia Redevelopment Agency
Automobile Dealerships
Rod's Grill
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz--expansion
Item ID
32570AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia launches the new Arcadia Downtown Business Association, with plans to revitalize the downtown district. Matt McSweeney is the association's chairperson and owner of Matt Denny's Ale House Restaurant on East Huntington Drive. City officials will spend about $90,000 on a parking study and about $18,000 in redevelopment funds to get Arcadia Downtown Business Association off the ground. The revitalization plans should work nicely with the slated opening of the Gold Line station at the northwest corner of North First Avenue and East Santa Clara Street by 2014.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32354
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 20, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 20, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A9
Subjects
Arcadia Downtown Business Association
Business and Industry
Redevelopment
Item ID
32552AN
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Newspaper Index
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Plans to expand Rusnak Mercedes-Benz in Arcadia should move ahead with Rusnak buying four commercial properties from the former Arcadia Redevelopment Agency. Arcadia became the first city earlier this month to have its long-range property management plan approved by the state Department of Finance--something required of former redevelopment or "successor agencies" to dispose of their properties.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33491
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 22, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 22, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Automobile Dealerships
Rusnak Mercedes Benz
Rusnak, Paul
Rusnak, Victoria
Item ID
33686AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia city officials will consider changes to its General Plan, a 25-year blueprint for land-use decisions. The new plan aims to revitalize the city's downtown (First Avenue and Huntington Drive) as well as the Live Oak Corridor in the city's southern end. "We're making it easier to develop the downtown and the area around the (future) Gold Line station," said Council Bob Harbicht. If approved, it would allow for mixed-use commercial and residential complexes, commercial square footages could double and the height limit would increase from 40 to 45 feet.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32228
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 13, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 13, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Arcadia--General Plan
Land use
Mixed-use development
Redevelopment--Downtown Arcadia
Redevelopment--Live Oak Avenue
Item ID
32427AN
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Newspaper Index
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Proposed logistics center in Arcadia could impact traffic and El Monte residents. A former gravel mine (quarry) may soon become a 1.6 million square foot logistics center and industrial park on an 81-acre site on the southeastern end of Arcadia. Property owner is John Edwards, Jr. El Monte City Manager Jesus Gomez is working with Arcadia and the developer to protect El Monte residents. With enough mitigation measures, if approved by Arcadia City Council, construction could begin after the reclamation is complete, as early as 2017.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34455
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 16, 2016
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 16, 2016
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Logistics Center
City of El Monte
Edwards, John, Jr.
Gomez, Jesus
Quarry
Redevelopment
Item ID
34647AN
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Newspaper Index
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City Council revoked the business license of IFitness & Beauty Spa due to a number of violations. It is located at 133 E. Huntington Drive and is the 10th massage service establishment to have its license revoked for code violations since January 2009 as part of a crackdown on code compliance and to eliminate prostitution and other illegal activities. Michelle Ma, the manager of IFitness and wife of the owner said they have been trying to comply but needed more time.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32132
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 8, 2010
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 8, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Hwu, Frank
IFitness & Beauty Spa
Ma, Michelle
Massages
Small business
Item ID
32329AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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This article reviews the Arcadia Blues Club at 16 E. Huntington Drive in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31918
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 26, 2010
Pages
p. Weekend 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 26, 2010
Pages
p. Weekend 1
Subjects
Arcadia Blues Club
Bohler, Teddy
Entertainment
Mills, Michelle
Music
Restaurants, bars, etc.
Item ID
32115AN
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Newspaper Index
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Red Cross selling Pasadena estate on Millionaire's Row for $10.5 million. It was named for John S. Cravens and has been the headquarters for San Gabriel Pomona Valley Chapter of the Red Cross. The Red Cross and its workers in Arcadia will move to an easily accessible Huntington Drive office.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34822
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 28, 2017
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 28, 2017
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Charities
Red Cross
Zervos, Simon
Item ID
35014AN
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Newspaper Index
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Local transit authorities are preparing to move forward with the Gold Line Foothill Extension to the Azusa-Glendora border and local cities are planning to place residential and commercial developments along the line. Those developments are intended to prepare for future population growth. The first phase of the extension is slated to be completed by 2014, adding new stops in Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale and Azusa. Some plans near those stops could be scaled back due to the down economy. Arcadia officials are looking to build commercial developments centered on a planned station just east of Santa Anita Avenue. Arcadia's challenge will be land acquisition. Because Arcadia has ordinances limiting the use of eminent domain, Arcadia officials have to rely on negotiating land deals, a difficult process with limited redevelopment funds.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32082
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 2010
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Light rail trains
Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
Redevelopment
Item ID
32279AN
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Newspaper Index
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Hale Medical Center office building planned at 289 W. Huntington Drive in Arcadia breaks ground. Construction began last week on the $20 million four-story medical office building in the southern parking lot of Santa Anita Park that will connect to Arcadia Methodist Hospital via a footbridge.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33577
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 20, 2013
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 20, 2013
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Methodist Hospital
Hale Corporation
Hale, Dick
Hale Medical Center
Stronach Group
Item ID
33772AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council gave preliminary approval for a proposed $18.5 million, four-story medical office building to be constructed near Methodist Hospital on about 4 acres of Santa Anita Park's expansive southern parking lot. Dick Hale's development firm Hale Corporation, has a joint venture with Santa Anita Park's owner The Stronach Group, to use part of the race track's under-used property at 289 W. Huntington Drive for the roughly 70,000 s.f. building.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33513
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 26, 2013
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p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 26, 2013
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Developers and developments
Hale Corporation
Hale, Dick
The Stronach Group
Item ID
33708AN
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Newspaper Index
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Jonathan Ung (photo) of Monarch Donuts in Arcadia says, "Moms have the hardest job in the world." His shop is at 15 West Huntington Drive in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35442
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Doughnuts
Monarch Donuts
Small business
Ung, Jonathan
Item ID
35634AN
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Newspaper Index
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Los Angeles County supervisor Mike Antonovich plans to set aside $650,000 of county funds to re-seed the oak woodland habitat in Arcadia that was demolished last week for flood control purposes, after mud and debris dredged from the Santa Anita Dam has been spread at the site. Bob Spencer, spokesman for Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, said there is much more debris poised to come down the hills and "We need to find a solution." Other county wilderness areas face destruction to make way for sediment. Officials are already considering the relocation of sediment from Devil's Gate Dam, which could end up on a 40-acre mature black willow woodland in the Hahamongna Watershed Park. Environmental activists won't let that happen without a fight.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32293
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Spencer, Bob
Item ID
32492AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia likely to spend $2 million on imported water for city supply. City Council will vote today on a proposal to buy 3,000 acre-feet of water to supplement the city's water demands for the 2014-2015 fiscal year, from Main San Gabriel Basin Watermaster.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34136
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Tait, Tom
Water
Item ID
34330AN
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Newspaper Index
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In the first 7 week phase, eastbound Huntington Drive at Second Avenue in Arcadia, has been narrowed to one lane as the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works prepares to begin a seismic retrofit of the overhead train trestle (bridge) for the future Metro Gold Line. During phase 2, westbound Huntington Drive at Second Avenue will be reduced to one lane. It should take 4 months to complete the retrofit.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32288
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 8, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 8, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Bridges
Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension
Seismic retrofitting
Item ID
32487AN
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Newspaper Index
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Work continues on Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension project. Workers installed a 130-foot-high steel cage that will make up a portion of a rapid transit bridge spanning the eastbound 210 Freeway between Baldwin Avenue and Santa Anita Avenue. When complete, the 584-foot-long, $18.6 million Metro Gold Line bridge will be buttressed by columns designed to resemble Native American baskets. The bridge work is expected to be completed in the summer of 2012, while the entire 11.5-mile extension is due to be finished 2015. The bridge contractor is Skanska USA Civil. Construction of the rest of the line may be delayed due to problems with Monrovia's Redevelopment Agency.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32527
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Bridges
Construction
Light rail trains
Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension
Transportation
Item ID
32726AN
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Newspaper Index
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Selfie Selfie Photo Studio has opened in Arcadia at 28 1/2 E. Huntington Drive. It offers private rooms where customers can snap quality and even costumed shots of themselves using a remote control. It is a venture of the popular 321 Photo Studio Franchise in China.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34067
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2015
Pages
p. A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2015
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Business and Industry
Photographs
Photography
Selfie Selfie Photo Studio
Item ID
34261AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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626 Night Market spawns copycats. The concept of a Taiwanese style foodie bazaar that has been held at Santa Anita Park, has spread to Orange County, Koreatown in Los Angeles, Monterey Park, and Studio City.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33916
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 9, 2014
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 9, 2014
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
626 Night Market
Food festivals
Xu, Aileen
Item ID
34110AN
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Newspaper Index
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As usual, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is the trainer to beat at tomorrow's $1 million Santa Anita Derby. (Photo).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34134
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 3, 2015
Pages
p. B1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 3, 2015
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Baffert, Bob
Item ID
34328AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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