The Arcadia Community Redevelopment Agency approved architectural and landscape site plans for the northwest corner of Santa Clara Street and Fifth Avenue.
Noon on August 17 is the deadline for submission of proposals to buy or lease city-owned property at northwest corner of First Avenue and Huntington Drive in Arcadia. The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency is interested in proposals offering a commercial-retail use or mixed-use concept of commercial-retail and professional office space.
City Council approved lending the city redevelopment agency $1.2 million Tuesday to cover additional cost overruns with Downtown 2000 and other projects.
The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency granted Stanley Gribble and Associates a 6-month exclusive right to negotiate with the city to develop a commercial project at the east end of the city between the railroad tracks on the south and west, Huntington on the north and 5th Avenue on the east.
Arcadia City Council/Redevelopment Agency in special meeting is expected to consider a proposal by Falzone Development, Inc. to build a $14 million, eight-story retail/office complex at northwest corner of First Avenue and Huntington Drive.
On the eve of a court battle, the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency and the owner of the construction yard property at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Santa Clara Street agreed to terms by which the city will take possession of the land.
The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency may have to return $550,000 to the county unless it turns its funds into fixed assets. Sites in the redevelopment area being considered for purchase are described.
A new developer has been selected by the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency to build on the vacant lot at the corner of Huntington Drive and First Ave., the site of the now defunct Falzone project. The agency selected Halferty Development Co. of Pasadena to build a 2-story professional and financial office building on the site.
On behalf of the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency, Mayor Gilb accepted a check for $250,000 from Hometel of America Corporation. This is the first of several payments toward the purchase of the property at the northeast corner of Second Ave. and Huntington Dr.
The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency may sell 3.74 Acres of land on the northeast corner of Huntington Drive and Second Avenue to Grand Royale Hometel for 1.3 million dollars. After the parcel is sold, the city plans to rezone the property for the developers raising the value to about 3.5 million.
The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency would like the Arcadia Nissan property in East Arcadia, but the city may not be able to afford it since the Redevelopment Agency is already $9.9 million in debt.
By December, if all goes smoothly, Arcadia's Redevelopment Agency should have evaluated, and perhaps formally accepted a specific proposal for developing the land just east of the railway crossing on Huntington Drive. The request indicates that the city prefers either retail stores, a professional office building, or a fine restaurant.
The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency has started a Commercial Facade Rehabilitation Program that reimburses merchants up to 50% for what they spend on such things as awnings and signage for their buildings.
Arcadia City Council in its role of Arcadia Redevelopment Agency Tuesday night moved very close to an agreement for the sale of the former Thrifty Drug Store site at the northwest corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue.
A federal judge has ordered Peter Kiewit and its subsidiary, Kiewit Pacific Co., now located in Santa Fe Springs, to pay the city of Arcadia the cost of cleaning up contaminated soil at the Santa Clara Street property it sold to the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency in 1985. The hazardous waste has put a new office building project on hold for more than a year and a half.
Arcadia City Council members, acting as the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency, will be asked Tuesday night to approve purchase of two properties at Fifth Avenue and Huntington Drive (the Larmor development).
A convenience shopping center has been approved by the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency for the southeast corner of Huntington Drive and Santa Anita Avenue. The businesses now occupying the land (a Texaco station, Burrito Flats restaurant, Miller's Carpet Care and Drive-Through Liquor) will have to be removed.
The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency (which is also the City Council) is considering whether to take steps toward acquiring several properties in east Arcadia that made up the parcel of land for the now defunct Target Shopping Center. According to Peter Kinnahan, assistant city manager for economic development, the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency is strongly in favor of acquiring property on 3rd Avenue, just north of Huntington Drive.
For the first time in its history, the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency has authorized using its power of eminent domain to acquire properties specifically for redevelopment. The agency voted to use that power to acquire a construction yard on Santa Clara Avenue known as the Bong property and other properties on the north side of Huntington Drive, between Second Avenue and the Santa Anita Wash.