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Construction of the Gold Line Foothill Extension will create nearly 7000 new jobs and pump nearly $1 billion into the region's economy, according to a new study of the project.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31868
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 13, 2010
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 13, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Jobs
Light Rail
Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension
Trains
Transportation
Item ID
32065AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Canyon Road, aka Chantry Flat Road, has been jointly owned by Arcadia, Sierra Madre, Monrovia, and Los Angeles County for years. The 3-mile mountain road that leads to the Angeles National Forest will be turned over to Los Angeles County if the cities pay to fix it up. Arcadia and Sierra Madre have completed their repairs and are waiting for Monrovia to start a roughly $500,000 project.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31867
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2010
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chantry Flat Road
Santa Anita Canyon Road
Item ID
32064AN
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Newspaper Index
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The City of Arcadia is using $646,000 in federal stimulus funds for repairs, repaving, re-striping and adding bicycle lanes on Santa Anita Avenue, north of Foothill Boulevard. The city has received $534,000 in stimulus money to retrofit City Hall with an energy-efficient heating and cooling system and $80,000 for equipment and training for its police department. Sometime in late spring, officials plan to widen intersections along Santa Anita Avenue, adding turn lanes or through lanes at Foothill Boulevard, Live Oak Avenue and Duarte Road.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31891
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 4, 2010
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 4, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Federal funding
Road construction
Item ID
32088AN
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Newspaper Index
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Police are seeking three men who attacked, robbed and carjacked a mother and son in front of their home in the 200 block of West Lemon Avenue. The crime occurred on March 4, before 9:30 PM, as they pulled into their driveway. The suspects got away in the victims' blue 2006 Lexus.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31921
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 5, 2010
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 5, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Robbery
Item ID
32118AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Adams' Pack Station, owned by Deb Burgess, in the Chantry Flat area, 3 miles up a road starting from the top of Santa Anita Avenue in Arcadia, fights to remain open as it faces costly upgrades required by the Los Angeles County Health Department. Forest authorities want it to remain a historic landmark, which would limit the amount and types of renovations that can be done.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31930
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2010
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Adams' Pack Station
Burgess, Deb
Chantry Flat
Conforti, Rich
Item ID
32127AN
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Newspaper Index
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Peter Chang, 60, of Long Beach, admitted in court that he shot his estranged wife, Liya ("Sandy") Lu, 32, in front of her Arcadia home on Bonita Street. He was immediately sentenced to 29 years to life in prison. The murder occurred on January 27, 2008.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31949
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 26, 2010
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 26, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Chang, Peter
Crime and Criminals
Lu, Liya ("Sandy")
Murders
Shootings
Item ID
32146AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has voted to fully fund the $690 million Gold Line Foothill Extension, from Pasadena to Azusa, and to complete it by 2014, with money from Measure R. Measure R was approved by voters in the November 2008 election. It created a half-cent county sales tax intended for transportation projects. The MTA has the funding for the first phase of the Gold Line light rail to Azusa. The first phase is an 11-mile extension that includes stops in Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale and Azusa.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31950
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 26, 2010
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 26, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Light rail trains
Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
Item ID
32147AN
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Newspaper Index
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This article compares the public access that citizens have to local government/city council meetings. Arcadia provides minutes of council meetings dating back to 1957. About 70% of area cities offer some form of archived video, whether it's replayed on a local cable channel, or the Internet, or on DVDs available at the local library.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31960
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 2010
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
City Council Meetings
Public access
Item ID
32157AN
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Newspaper Index
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None of the three Chinese-American candidates received enough votes to win one of the three open seats in Tuesday's Arcadia City Council elections. With the departure of Mayor John Wuo, who was the second Chinese-American to be elected to the council, Arcadia, an ethnically diverse city, is reverting to an all Caucasian council for the first time in 12 years. Many in the Chinese community prefer to relay a concern to someone of their own race and culture "because this person understands what they say, what their concern is based on," former council member Dr. Sheng Chang said. Councilman Roger Chandler, however, believes that the city has enough volunteers, associations and resources to facilitate communication and to aptly handle any issue that could come up.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31967
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 2010
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Amundson, Peter
Arcadia City Council Elections--2010
Asians--Chinese-Americans
Caucasians--whites
Chandler, Roger
Cheng, Paul
Harbicht, Bob
Lee, Jason
Race relations
Segal, Mark "Mickey"
Tay, Sho
Item ID
32164AN
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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
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia property owners will be asked to renew a street lighting fee schedule and assessment in June, when funding is set to expire. Officials warned that without an extension of the lighting assessment district, the city would lose about $420,000 a year. Unless the assessment is renewed, the city might have to cut services such as police protection, fire and emergency medical response services, library services, and recreation programs. Arcadia property owners currently pay 40% of street lighting repair and maintenance costs, while the city covers the other 60%. That would remain unchanged in the new assessment district, but the amounts each household pays will be different. Family households in residential neighborhoods will be charged $28.44 a year, while single-family homes along major thoroughfares will pay $16.73 a year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32000
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 2010
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Street lights
Street lighting assessment districts
Item ID
32180AN
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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
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p. A1
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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
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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
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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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In a strongly worded letter to Canadian mogul Frank Stronach, Arcadia city officials urged Santa Anita Park's owner to work with developer Rick Caruso and finish the proposed upscale Shops at Santa Anita mall project that has been in the works for the last five years. Stronach's MI Developments (MID) voided its contract with Caruso following bankruptcy restructuring at Santa Anita Park. In a further flexing of city muscle, the letter stated that it "looks forward to working with the race track in future projects that require City approval."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32069
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 19, 2010
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 19, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Bankruptcy
Caruso Affiliated
Caruso, Rick
MI Developments (MID)
Santa Anita Park--2001-2010--development
Shopping malls
Shops at Santa Anita
Stronach, Frank
Item ID
32266AN
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Newspaper Index
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Based on the description and surveillance video, Arcadia police believe the same man may have robbed two 7-Eleven stores this month. The most recent robbery took place on May 20 at the 7-Eleven at Live Oak and Tyler Avenues. The previous crime occurred on May 10 at the 7-Eleven at 1003 S. Baldwin Avenue in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32071
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 22, 2010
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 22, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Convenience stores
Crime and Criminals
Robbery
Item ID
32268AN
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Newspaper Index
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MI Developments, the new owners of Santa Anita Park, defended canceling Oak Tree Racing Association's lease for fall racing, saying the contract did not account for the true economic cost of running the race track, according to Dennis Mills, vice chairman and chief executive officer of Canada-based MI Developments. On the other hand, Oak Tree's director and executive vice president Sherwood Chillingworth said the race track was getting the better deal, as Santa Anita Park got 75% of Oak Tree's profits. Chillingworth is talking about running Oak Tree at Hollywood Park or Del Mar.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32073
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 25, 2010
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p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 25, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Bankruptcy
Chillingworth, Sherwood
Horse racing
MI Developments (MID)
Mills, Dennis
Oak Tree Racing Association
Santa Anita Park--2001-2010
Stronach, Frank
Item ID
32270AN
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Newspaper Index
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Developer Rick Caruso and officials of Santa Anita Park met to discuss reviving The Shops at Santa Anita, a proposed upscale retail mall project. MI Developments (MID) had cancelled a 2005 contract with Caruso Affiliated to build the mall after bankruptcy restructuring at Santa Anita Park. Both parties hope to move forward with the mall.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32077
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 29, 2010
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 29, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Bankruptcy
Caruso Affiliated
Caruso, Rick
MI Developments (MID)
Santa Anita Park--2001-2010--development
Shopping malls
Shops at Santa Anita
Item ID
32274AN
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Newspaper Index
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Dennis Mills, vice chairman and CEO of Canada-based MI Developments, which owns Santa Anita Park, said the company will be unveiling a new business plan. This new business plan has many horse racing industry people worried about the future.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32078
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 1, 2010
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p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 1, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Horse racing
MI Developments (MID)
Mills, Dennis
Santa Anita Park--2001-2010
Item ID
32275AN
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Newspaper Index
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Frank Stronach, chairman of MI Developments, is scheduled to address the California Horse Racing Board to address a number of issues, including a potential new racetrack surface for Santa Anita Park and the recent cancellation of its lease with the charitable Oak Tree Racing Association. Dennis Mills, MI Development's CEO and vice chairman has said Santa Anita Park might replace its synthetic track soon, which could jeopardize hosting Oak Tree's meet there.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32091
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 20, 2010
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p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 20, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board
Chillingworth, Sherwood
Horses and horse racing
MI Developments
Oak Tree Racing Association
Santa Anita Park-2001-2010
Stronach, Frank
Item ID
32288AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension had a ground breaking ceremony at Newcastle Park in Arcadia, for a project that would extend the line from East Pasadena to Azusa, with stops in Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte and Irwindale. This phase is fully funded through Measure R, the Los Angeles County half-cent sales tax increase that voters approved to fund transportation projects. Eventually the Gold Line will reach the Inland Empire.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32103
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 27, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 27, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Light rail trains
Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
Item ID
32300AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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