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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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Magna Entertainment Corp., owner of Santa Anita Park race track, which is in bankruptcy reorganization hearings, filed a plan that would cancel its 2005 agreement with Rick Caruso to develop the 830,000 square feet Shops at Santa Anita on the race track's south parking lot. Caruso filed an objection to the move in bankruptcy court, citing "substantial economic harm" to Santa Anita Associates, LLC, the legal entity that was going to develop the project. Santa Anita LLC has so far invested over $25 million to the project's development. Caruso is committed to developing the project in Arcadia. If the contract is indeed terminated between the parties, Magna would have to start from scratch with new plans, new environmental impact reports, and new hearings to propose another development.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31978
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 22, 2010
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 22, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Caruso, Rick
Magna Entertainment Corp.
Santa Anita Associates, LLC
Santa Anita Park--2001-2010--development
Shopping malls
Shops at Santa Anita
Item ID
32175AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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City of Arcadia has been revising its General Plan and the first public draft was released last week. The General Plan, a 25-year blueprint for how the city could develop was last updated in 1996. The plan addresses the Gold Line station and allows for mixed-use residential and commercial development north of Huntington Drive in the downtown area, and on Live Oak Avenue. The plan must go before the Planning Commission, then the City Council for approval.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32032
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 7, 2010
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 7, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Development
General Plan
Gold Line Santa Anita Station
Item ID
32229AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia officials will meet with Santa Anita Park's majority owner Frank Stronach, to talk about the mall project that fell through with Caruso Affiliated, and to see if Stronach still envisions a high end retail project to develop on the track parking lot.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32419
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 16, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 16, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Caruso Affiliated
Malls
Santa Anita Park -- parking lot
Shops at Santa Anita
Stronach, Frank
Item ID
32618AN
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Newspaper Index
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A team of designers and builders (photo) from Kiewit Parsons firm working on the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension prepare to remove the existing railroad bridge on Colorado Boulevard between San Antonio Road and Santa Anita Avenue in Arcadia. That section of Colorado Boulevard may close today. The portion of Colorado Boulevard west of North Santa Anita Avenue, is scheduled to be closed from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM weekdays through June 8, to remove the existing railroad bridge. Since the Colorado Boulevard bridge was once an old freight line bridge, it is not wide enough to accommodate light rail trains and tracks, and thus, will be demolished over the next 4 weeks.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32976
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 23, 2012
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 23, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Bridges
Demolition
Kiewit Parsons
Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension
Item ID
33173AN
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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
Collection
Newspaper Index
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210 Freeway sound wall is finished. The Metro project, which started in 2009, consists of 2 miles of sound walls along westbound and eastbound lanes of the 210 Freeway between Santa Anita Avenue and California Avenue in Arcadia and Monrovia, paid with Measure R funds. The sound walls provide at least 5 decibels of noise reduction. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held. Several Arcadia residents near Victory Chapel on N. First Avenue, where the sound wall ends, are disappointed the barrier doesn't extend farther west.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33107
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 17, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 17, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Noise pollution
Sound Walls
Item ID
33304AN
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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
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Planning Commission denies 2236 Hollis Lane project, citing the applicant's lack of effort in finding a middle ground between the developers and the neighbors that oppose it. The applicant Marvin Fong aims to replace a 624 square-foot home with a 2500 square-foot home. Many Arcadians are concerned with "oversized" homes.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34291
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 10, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 10, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Municipal Code
Arcadia Planning Commission
Development
Fong, Marvin
Houses
Mansions
Item ID
34485AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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New state-of-the-art library coming to Arcadia. The Los Angeles County Public Library will replace the current branch in unincorporated Arcadia (4153 East Live Oak Avenue) sometime in 2017 at a new site at 22 West Live Oak Boulevard. It will cost about $9 million from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors capital projects funding.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34648
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2016
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2016
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Antonovich, Michael
Libraries
Los Angeles County Public Library-Live Oak Branch
Patrick, Skye
Item ID
34840AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia city is widening and improving three major downtown intersections, a $1 million project that has caused significant congestion in recent weeks. The work is taking place on Huntington Drive at intersections of Santa Anita Avenue, Santa Clara Avenue and Colorado Place. Sixty percent of the funding is by the City and forty percent by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The city is also replacing an older sewer with a new larger one on Baldwin Avenue, northbound between Huntington Drive and Duarte Road, and will repave the road. Cost about $413,000.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33141
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 26, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 26, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Street construction
Street repairs
Item ID
33338AN
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Newspaper Index
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Clean-up crews are collecting wind debris. Tom Tate, Director of Public Works for Arcadia, said that "on December 10, we started a systematic clean-up of the city, starting with city crews and contractors, one on the north end, one on the south end. We plan to move through the city, street by street, and hopefully meet in the middle." Tate said his crews have moved about 5,000 tons of debris off the streets since the windstorm hit on November 30-December 1, and estimates they are at least a quarter of the way done. Arcadia Public Works is trying to keep residents updated with Twitter and their website, as well as media releases, on their progress. Tate hopes to conclude the clean-up before Christmas.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32702
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia Public Works
Disasters
Tate, Tom
Trees
Weather
Wind and windstorms
Item ID
32899AN
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Newspaper Index
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Sierra Madre and Arcadia engaged in water fight. Sierra Madre accused Arcadia of stealing water from a shared East Raymond Basin. Holly Whatley, Sierra Madre's assistant city attorney, said the California Supreme Court divided the east and west Raymond Basin in a 1944 judgment. Arcadia spent $2.8 million to build its Anoakia Well in 2001 and its Colorado Well in 2007. Hydrogeology expert Tim Thompson said although Arcadia's two wells reside on the eastern side, the wells actually draw ground water that originates from the West Raymond Basin. He said there is very little water traveling from the east and west basins because of a hydrogeological barrier, and a scientific look at the ground shows that Arcadia is taking adjudicated water from the West Raymond Basin. See hard copy in VF Water.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33777
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2014
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2014
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Anderson, Steve
Raymond Basin Management Board
Thompson, Tim
Water
Whatley, Holly
Item ID
33972AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council approves $70,000 to help the Downtown Business Association set up a business-improvement district. The district would tax commercial property owners to revitalize the area.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32886
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A3
Subjects
Arcadia--downtown
Business and Industry
Item ID
33083AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Pink wall paints awareness for breast cancer at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. Lanora Khoe of Arcadia is one of the painters and participants. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33631
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 29, 2013
Pages
p. A9
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 29, 2013
Pages
p. A9
Subjects
Breast cancer
Huntington Hospital
Khoe, Lanora
Item ID
33826AN
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Newspaper Index
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Green Leaf Events, launched by San Gabriel Valley native Jerry Diaz, began handling operations for Monrovia's long-standing Friday Night Street Fair earlier this month, in conjunction with LA Party Works, and in November, will assume operations of the Downtown Arcadia Street Market. It features a farmer's market, food vendors, and live entertainment. Open every Saturday, 5-9 pm, beginning November 7, spans 2 city blocks on First Avenue between Huntington Drive and Santa Clara St.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34352
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 20, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 20, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Diaz, Jerry
Downtown Arcadia Improvement Association
Item ID
34545AN
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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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Marriott seeks two hotels in Arcadia. Andrew Chang, of Continental Assets Management, and owner of Santa Anita Inn, is proposing to build two Marriott hotels on the property. His proposal seeks to add 110 rooms to the West Huntington Drive property and would include a six-story Residence Inn and a four-story Fairfield Inn and Suites (Marriott brands). The Santa Anita Inn was built in 1955. The project will require approval from the Planning Commission and City Council.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33701
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 11, 2013
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 11, 2013
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Chang, Andrew
Hotels and motels
Marriott Hotels
Santa Anita Inn
Item ID
33897AN
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Newspaper Index
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Entrepreneur Kin Hui, CEO of Singpoli Capital Corp., unveiled North America's first Chinese language website exclusively devoted to the sport of horse racing. It is called YUPRacing.com. It features several Chinese language videos which showcase the beauty of Santa Anita Park and will take bets.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33702
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 11, 2013
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 11, 2013
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Hui, Kin
Websites
Item ID
33898AN
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Newspaper Index
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