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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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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 20, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A9
Subjects
Arcadia Downtown Business Association
Business and Industry
Redevelopment
Item ID
32552AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia City Council unanimously approved a General Plan update that aims to make the future Metro Gold Line station the heart of a revitalized downtown and the plan includes a revitalization of Live Oak Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32230
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 18, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 18, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia--General Plan
Land use
Mixed-use development
Redevelopment--Downtown Arcadia
Redevelopment--Live Oak Avenue
Item ID
32429AN
Collection
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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Newspaper
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
Collection
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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Newspaper
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
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach, who is about to become the sole owner of Santa Anita Park, said he hasn't ruled out talking to developer Rick Caruso about reviving a project to build an outdoor mall in the race track's parking lot. Last week Caruso announced that he is no longer pursuing a development deal with Santa Anita Park's outgoing owner, MI Developments, Inc. (MID), for the upscale Shops at Santa Anita. Stronach is the outgoing chairman of MID.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32415
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 28, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 28, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Caruso, Rick
Malls
Santa Anita Park -- parking lot
Shops at Santa Anita
Stronach, Frank
Item ID
32613AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Circus Vargas will be coming to Santa Anita Park for the first time this fall. It will run for 11 days starting Thanksgiving Day in the southwest parking lot. It is an animal-free circus.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32629
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 3, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 3, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Circuses
Circus Vargas
Santa Anita Park--2011-2010--parking lot--events
Item ID
32827AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Developer Rick Caruso of Caruso Affiliated is no longer pursuing a deal with Santa Anita Park owners MI Developments to develop an outdoor mall in the race track's parking lot. The project was known as The Shops at Santa Anita. Caruso said, "We're not pursuing it, because of the (Magna Entertainment Corp.) bankruptcy...and everything else." Arcadia city councilman Mickey Segal said it's a loss of "a projected $2.5 million to $3 million of revenue (each year) to the city" in sales and property tax.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32406
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 21, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 21, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Caruso Affiliated
Caruso, Rick
Malls
MI Developments
Santa Anita Park race track parking lot
Shops at Santa Anita
Item ID
32604AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council last week approved expanding the kinds of outdoor special events allowed at Santa Anita Park race track, and in the adjacent parking lot areas, including concerts, carnivals, and farmers markets. The change will allow the track to host the California Philharmonic summer concerts and possibly Cavalia, a Cirque du Soleil show. Councilman Roger Chandler said the amendments made to the city's municipal code allow a very large and underused piece of land, specifically the south parking lot, to be used and to generate additional income for the track.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32528
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Siberell, Pete
Zoning
Item ID
32727AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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MI Developments, the parent company of Santa Anita Park, announced the formation of the Preakness 5.5 bonus program, which could mean an additional $5.5 million for the winning connections of the middle leg of horse racing's Triple Crown in 2011.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32158
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 28, 2010
Pages
p. C6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 28, 2010
Pages
p. C6
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
MI Developments
Santa Anita Park
Item ID
32355AN
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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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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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Newspaper
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
Collection
Newspaper Index
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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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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Redevelopment Agency
Rusnak, Paul
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Item ID
33005AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Downtown Arcadia business owners establish a Community Benefit District, mandating they each pay an annual assessment on their property taxes to fund marketing programs and activities in hopes of bringing more people to the area. It is called a Property-Based Business Improvement Model. It is a private-sector initiative that bills local businesses by the same criteria used in Old Pasadena--according to their frontage, lot size and scope of any buildings on a given property. 60% of downtown Arcadia owners chose the plan, the result of a three year effort.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33591
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 20, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 20, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia Downtown Business Association
Business and Industry
McSweeny, Matt
Item ID
33786AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park's ownership changed hands on April 30 after Frank Stronach's Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC) transferred many of its assets to Stronach's MI Developments (MID) (one of MEC's creditors), as part of a bankruptcy restructuring plan. Last week MI Developments, a real estate operating company, canceled its 2005 agreement with Caruso Affiliated to develop to the proposed mall known as The Shops at Santa Anita, but this week MI Developments hopes to work out a deal with developer Rick Caruso to build an upscale retail project in the track's parking lot.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32030
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 4, 2010
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 4, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Bankruptcy
Caruso Affiliated
Caruso, Rick
Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC)
MI Developments (MID)
Santa Anita Park--2001-2010--development
Shopping malls
Shops at Santa Anita
Stronach, Frank
Item ID
32227AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Faithful fans, such as Antonio Reyes, are missing the presence of Oak Tree Racing at Santa Anita Park this year. He says he will watch on television and bet off-track. Oak Tree is running at Hollywood Park in Inglewood starting today and next year too.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32189
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 30, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 30, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Hollywood Park Race Track
Horses and horse racing
Oak Tree racing
Santa Anita Park-2001-2010
Item ID
32388AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park. Track to boost race day rules. Owner, in a historic step following the death of a 22nd horse at the winter meet, announces medication ban, limits on riding crop use.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35388
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Deaths
Guillermo, Kathy
Horses and horse racing
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach, Belinda
Stronach Group
Item ID
35578AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia businesses are eager for extended race season at Santa Anita Park to increase their own business. The live racing season will be extended by 11 weeks next year, through July 5, pending approval of California Horse Racing Board, due to the closure of Betfair Hollywood Park in Inglewood.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33546
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 15, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 15, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Betfair Hollywood Park
California Horse Racing Board
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Item ID
33741AN
Collection
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
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park to unveil Zenyatta statue and renames it autumn stakes' races, as part of its rebranding. The statue of legendary mare Zenyatta, 2010 Horse of the Year, will be in the Paddock Gardens.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33139
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Statuary
Item ID
33336AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Developer Rick Caruso said he is in the process of finalizing a new deal with Santa Anita Park's owners to build an outdoor mall at the race track's south parking lot. MI Developments (MID) (owner of track), voided a 2005 joint-venture development agreement with Caruso Affiliated in April 2010 for the proposed 825,000 square feet The Shops at Santa Anita, as part of MID's bankruptcy reorganization. MID and Caruso have been renegotiating since, and the development will be similar with some minor variations.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32278
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Caruso Affiliated
Caruso, Rick
MI Developments (MID)
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Shopping malls
Item ID
32477AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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