Prior to signing an exclusive "right to negotiate" with the city, Beck and Associates, developers of the proposed Target Department Store are asking the city to contact business and property owners to determine if they want to be participants in the project.
Fearing a glut of smut near their schools and churches, 1000 local people, including more than 500 Arcadians, signed a petition against adult business zoning and presented it to the Arcadia City Council.
The Automobile Club of Southern California will relocate its Temple City and Monrovia offices to its new facility at 420 East Huntington Drive, Arcadia, beginning October 16.
Persons who reside or do business in Arcadia may be eligible to have graffiti removed from their property at no charge for labor or materials. For further information contact Ronald Mehr, L. A. County Mechanical Department (213) 267-2246.
The Arcadia Business Association held a meeting August 22, 1984, to inform 36 Arcadia business owners of the city's downtown revitalization plan. Unattractive storefronts were cited as a key problem to be solved. In order to ameliorate the situation the city might exercise eminent domain and relocation of certain businesses that fail to voluntarily cooperate with the city plan.
Preservation of existing businesses and drawing new business to Arcadia were goals stated by each of the Arcadia City Council candidates speaking at the Arcadia Business Association dinner meeting at the Moon Palace Wednesday evening.
Assistant Superintendent of Business Services for the Arcadia Board of Education, Dennis Chuning, has announced his resignation in order to take a position as Director of Business Services at Pasadena City College.
It is a misdemeanor to run an adult entertainment establishment in Arcadia, according to an ordinance passed by the City Council, Tuesday night. The ordinance, tailored after a similar statute in Long Beach, states that adult entertainment businesses pose "an immediate threat to the public health, safety, and welfare of the community."
Scott H. Mittman spoke to the Rotary Club of his experiences in Israel made possible in part by a graduate fellowship sponsored by the Rotary Club. He spent the year studying neurobiology.
The Arcadia Rotary Club has announced a major building program at the Casa Hogar Lazaro Cardenas, an orphan's home in Tijuana, Mexico for 100 children. Members of the Tijuana Rotary Club have agreed to provide one-third of the costs of the project.
Arcadia Business Association President, Charles Chivetta, who criticized the city's redevelopment policies and was criticized by the city in return, has sent out a letter criticizing the criticisms.
The Arcadia Rotary Club is involved in a program with the Gormeck Polygraph School providing subjects for a class of new students entering polygraph training.
The Rotary Club of Arcadia made its annual Christmas caravan bearing food and gifts to the Lazero Cardenas Orphanage and the Santa Teresita Home near Tijuana, Mexico. A new all-purpose building, financed and built by the Arcadia and Tijuana Rotary Clubs, was dedicated at Lazero.
Construction will begin in September on a new district office for the Automobile Club of Southern California. The building is part of the redevelopment project on east Huntington Drive.