Lower Arcadia City Hall walkway that leads to the upper part of City Hall. Notice no murals on the walls, they have not been uncovered yet. 240 West Huntington Drive. Photograph by Terry Miller.
Ground was broken Friday for Arcadia's newest office building, the Arcadia Executive Plaza, on the triangular site bounded by Colorado Boulevard and Colorado Place, immediately east of Santa Anita Park race track.
Egner Construction Company of Gardena will starting building second apartment in the city on West Huntington Drive. Earlier in January, the Egner Company took out a permit for a 21-unit apartment on Fairview Avenue. See hard copy of newspaper in Box 51.
On a 4-1 vote, with Councilman Jeff Dring dissenting, the Arcadia City Council Tuesday night approved General Plan and zone changes to allow construction of and $11 million medical office building on Santa Anita Park race track property directly across Huntington Drive from Arcadia Methodist Hospital.
If everything goes as planned, Engineering-Science, now with offices in Arcadia's Towne Center, will build a two or three story building on the site of the old Cinemaland theater.
City Council accepted developer Sam Falzone's proposal for a $14 million, eight-story financial center at the northwest corner of First Avenue and Huntington Drive in Arcadia.
Three-story office building nears reality after reported approval. Will be constructed on a two-acre site at the southwest corner of Huntington Drive and Fifth Avenue in the Arcadia redevelopment area.
Some Arcadia redevelopment land was OK'd for sale to Dr. James Chinn for the development of a new medical building. The property is at the corner of First and Wheeler, the site of the old library. The cost of the land and building is estimated at $900,000.
The Santa Anita Companies have chosen the Pasadena architectural firm of Neptune & Thomas Associates to design the new $12 million, 70,000 square-foot medical office building to be constructed on race track property in Arcadia.
