Arcadia's City Council selected American Golf Corporation of Santa Monica to refurbish and run the Arcadia Par 3 Golf Course as 620 East Live Oak. The estimate for remodeling is set at $405,000.
The L.A. County Board of Suprevisors chose Santa Anita Associates to manage and make roughly $750,000 worth of improvements to the Santa Anita Golf Course. They are expected to renovate and expand the clubhouse and add a new banquet room and cocktail lounge.
Arcadia City Council considering leasing Par-3 golf course site south of Live Oak Avenue for major housing development. Would provide up to 587 housing units, including 72 rental units for senior citizens. Potential developer is Cadillac Fairview Development Co. of Newport Beach.
Arcadia City Council members decided to wait a month before signing an "exclusive right to negotiate agreement" for the development of city-owned property at 620 East Live Oak Avenue, site of the Par Three Golf Course.
Lillian Mowdy of Arcadia has worked in the men's department at Hinshaw's Department Store for 10 years and is the first and only woman at the Arcadia store to sell men's suits.
Rudolph C. Shosted, now 79, recalls his time spent at the Army's observation balloon school, located where the Los Angeles County Park golf course now is.
Fire Chief Gene Mahoney, with City Council approval, is instituting an apprentice fireman program, in which the men will take training classes at PCC while actually employees of the Arcadia Fire Department.
The city of Arcadia will spend an estimated $108,875 to renovate playing fields at 3 public elementary schools: Hugo Reid, Highland Oaks and Holly Avenue, all used by the city's Recreation Department.
Residents on and near Elkins Avenue in North Arcadia are
circulating a petition objecting to a proposed tennis club in the county debris basin next to Arcadia wash.
A petition of 732 signatures of people opposed to the planned tennis club in the Santa Anita Debris Basin in north Arcadia was presented to the Arcadia City Council. Residents of the Highland Oaks section of Arcadia have vowed to fight the proposed tennis club by legal means if necessary.
After narrowly rejecting a Target Department Store as a suitable use for a property on Huntington Drive Tuesday night, the Arcadia City Council will have to await another proposal if it still plans to redevelop the property. The vote was 2-2 with and abstention. the measure needed 3 votes to win.
The Arcadia Board of Education approved a joint powers agreement with the city regarding use of part of the First Avenue Junior High School site for recreational purposes.
Officers of a homeowner's group fighting a proposed tennis club in the Highland Oaks area of Arcadia say that opposition to the development is mounting despite efforts by developers to win support.
Polo grounds and equestrian facilities, though listed on a lease agreement with L.A. County, are not included in plans for a proposed tennis club in a county debris basin above Arcadia and Monrovia.
Homeowners in the Highland Oaks area of Arcadia showed up at City Hall to list their concerns about a private tennis club proposed for flood control land near their homes.
Developers of a proposed $3.2 million tennis club in the foothills of Arcadia and Monrovia plan to take the first step toward building the controversial facility by filing for conditional use permits in both cities.
An option-to-lease agreement between the L.A. County Flood Control District and Ralph and Dennis Alfieri indicates that a polo field and equestrian facilities are included in plans for a proposed athletic facility in the county debris basin at the north Arcadia/Monrovia border.
A tennis club planned for a county debris basin on the north Arcadia-Monrovia border will come before an open meeting of the Highland Oaks Homeowners Association. Dennis Alfieri, one of the development's planners, said it will include 14 tennis courts, a 20,000 square foot clubhouse with locker rooms, a dining facility, saunas and jacuzzi, 2 racquetball courts and a room that could be used for basketball, volleyball and aerobic dancing.