Santa Anita Realty Enterprises won a long-awaited victory late Wednesday as the City Council tentatively granted a commercial land-use designation for an area that could serve as the site of a major entertainment center.
In a major retreat from its campaign to develop land south of the Santa Anita Park race track, Santa Anita Realty Enterprises has withdrawn its application to build a $300 million entertainment complex.
Santa Anita REAlty Enterprises has poured more than $78,000 into the campaign to defeat Measure M, the Nov. 5 ballot measure to give voters veto power over the development of an entertainment complex near the company's race track.
Santa Anita Companies has announced earnings for the year ending December 31, 1981. Revenues were up 23.5%. Shares of the two companies, Santa Anita Operating Company and Santa Anita Realty Enterprises, Inc., are offered on the New York Stock Exchange under the name Santa Anita Realty Enterprises.
Santa Anita Companies have submitted a down-scaled entertainment complex with the new proposal for developing the South parking lot of the Santa Anita Park race track property.
Photos of three offices used by H.H.Goddard Realty through the years in business in Arcadia. One at top left was opened in 1947 at 904 S. Baldwin; the photo at top right was their office from about 1950 on and was at 1505 S. Baldwin Avenue. Lower photo shows office they occupy in 1980 at 1010 S. Baldwin.
At the City Planning Commission's General Plan Update meeting on April 29, 1996, an announcement was made that Santa Anita Realty had withdrawn its application for development of an entertainment center.
Concerns about a proposed entertainment complex next to Santa Anita Park race track have been expressed by representatives of three stores in the Santa Anita Fashion Park.
Flood damage on N. Santa Anita Avenue. This view was taken at Perkins and Santa Anita. A sign pointing toward Sierra Madre is visible on the left and the San Gabriel Mountains are visible in the background. There is a car on the right.
Aerial view taken from about over what became Campus Drive and Arcadia High School, and looking toward (NW) Pasadena and Sierra Madre at foot of San Gabriel Mountains. Photo shows Santa Anita Park Race Track possibly just a few years after opening.
A number of horses are seen in their stalls. Most are looking toward the camera. There are hanging lights over the horses. Probably taken at Santa Anita Park during the 1984 Olympics.
Looking east on Duarte near Baldwin intersection. McMickens Realty Service is located on right side of photo. There is a man walking on right dressed in white pharmacist's smock. There is heavy flooding evident on both streets. The Arcadia sign (welcome sign) is visible.
