A 75-year-old building at 330 East Duarte Road, which was purchased as a chapel for the Wesleyan Holiness Community Chapel Church, is considered to be unsafe and "in complete disrepair" by the Arcadia Planning Commission.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has announced the completion of its newest chapel in Arcadia, located at Foothill Blvd. and Baldwin Ave. The structure is described in detail.
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.
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 Arcadia Planning Commission has given Reverend John Maynard of the Wesleyan Holiness Community Chapel Church one year to bring his church property up to city safety standards.
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.
The Santa Anita Inn was purchased 2 weeks ago by developer Charles Bluth, who is already implementing plans to turn the hotel at the corner of Huntington Drive and Colorado Place into a four-star inn. Renovation (with a New Orleans motif) should be completed by January.
Arcadia Datsun is expanding its services to the Mountain Vista Plaza Shopping Center in Duarte (current site of the Big Sky Drive-In Theater). The general manager of Arcadia Datsun says his company's recent agreement with Duarte means his business will have somewhere to move if Arcadia decides to redevelop his property with a Target Store or some other project.
The possibility that the Target Department Store project could be resurrected may to some extent depend on whether Arcadia Datsun decides to relocate to Duarte in the near future.
Within the next 6 months a left turn signal will be installed at the corner of Duarte and First Avenue in an effort to avoid the many accidents that have occurred at that intersection recently.
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.
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.
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.
Tony Jabourian and other city dignitaries were on hand for the grand opening of Tony's Mobil Mart. The new service station/ convenience store is located at 679 West Duarte Rd.
Arcadia Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team was able to successfully resolve a tense hostage situation on October 7 at a doctor's office at 125 E. Duarte Road.