Proposed redevelopment of the Santa Anita Inn, formerly Ramada Inn at 130 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, won't take place until after the Olympics next August.
Construction will begin in November on the $20 million hotel-office complex on the site of the Ramada Inn, according to John Kirkpatrick, the developer. He expects that the hotel and one office building will be completed before the 1984 Olympics. The new hotel will be first class with a well-known name.
Arcadia City Council will be asked to determine whether they want to extend a "resolution of inducement for tax-exempt financing" for the proposed Ramada Inn (now Santa Anita Inn) project.
The 121-unit Marriott Residence Inn is scheduled to open for business on January 23. An "all-suites" hotel, the inn offers kitchens in every unit to entice "extended-stay" travellers.
City Council approved the zone change necessary to allow a seven-story, 150 room hotel to be built at 130 West Huntington Drive, the current site of the Ramada Inn.
Granada Royale Hometel is interested in building a $10 million hotel at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Huntington Drive, according to Mike Lloyd, a consultant to Republic Development Company.
With Councilmen Dick Haltom and Dave Hannah dissenting, the Arcadia City Council approved a resolution of inducement for tax-exempt financing for the proposed Ramada Inn project.
Two hotels are being proposed for redevelopment property along Huntington Drive in Arcadia, potentially creating a "hotel row" between East Arcadia and West Monrovia.
Article reports on progress with two parcels involving a proposed Hometel 300-room hotel at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Huntington Drive and a proposed office building at the southwest corner of Huntington Drive and Fifth Avenue.
Construction of the Arcadia Gateway Center on the south side of Huntington Drive in east Arcadia should begin November 9. The new center will have a Cigna Health Plan Building, 2 office buildings, 2 restaurants, and a retail building with shops.
By February 14, 1985, the Granada Royale Hometel will be known as the Embassy Suite Hotel. The hotel was purchased in April 1984 by Embassy Suites, a subsidiary of Holiday Inn.
Arcadia may soon have a new Japanese restaurant at the Hughes Market Shopping Center on Huntington Drive. The Planning Commission approved a conditional use permit to operate a restaurant at 1121 and 1123 East Huntington Drive.
Granada Rouale Hometel is interested in building a $10 million hotel at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Huntington Drive, according to Mike Lloyd, a consultant to Republic Development Company.
Work scheduled to begin shortly on new 1,200 square foot banquet room at the Derby Restaurant, 233 East Huntington Drive, in the Arcadia redevelopment area.
The 14-year-old son of Arcadia real estate developer Charles Bluth shot and killed one of 2 intruders who had broken into the Bluth home in the exclusive Whispering Pines neighborhood.
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.