The 50,000 square foot property on the northeast corner of Wheeler and First has been sold for $215,000. The former owners were Robert and Phyllis Walker. The site will be used for the corporate headquarters for HTL Industries and a two story office building to be built by Jeff Jons and Jim Kuhn. Hoy an Kehler's Arcadia Van Lives, presently on the site, will relocate.
About 400 people joined City officials in the spacious main room of the new Arcadia Community Center on Friday to dedicate the $4.5 million structure that will house the City's Senior Citizens Services and Recreation Department.
According to El Monte City Attorney Sidney Maleck, there is new information that shows El Monte is not involved in political "posturing" when it objects to a mini-storage facility and a landfill just across its border in Arcadia.
Aerial photo of Charles Bluth's new home, named Peacock Manor. Under construction, the house is being built on 7 1/2 acres and will contain 24 rooms and 8 baths.
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.
After presentations by 3 architectural firms Tuesday night, the Arcadia City Council voted 4-1 to ask one of the companies back for further discussion on doing a master plan for the city's proposed civic center project. The proposed center would probably be located on the Huntington Drive median where the city hall and police station are now located. Mayor David Hannah indicated that this could be a long-term project, perhaps lasting as long as 20 years.
Although its financial needs are not being met, Arcadia Methodist Hospital reports, the medical facility has decided to continue as a trauma center as long as financially feasible.
An ad hoc committee of seniors plans to collect 5,000 signatures by the end of February asking the Arcadia City Council to commit itself to acquiring a senior center.
An extensive biography of George Watts, who has been named acting City Manager, succeeding Lyman Cozad who left to become manager of the League of California Cities.
Approximately 110 slides depicting Arcadia's history have been made into a slide show and are now available to check out along with a written narration.
Arcadia and the Derby Restaurant have come to a tentative agreement on a land swap that would allow a Souplantation Restaurant to be built just east of the Derby in East Arcadia.
The Arcadia Beautiful Commission intends to recommend that Holly Avenue School be submitted for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The city's oldest school building, Holly Avenue, built in 1927, is an example of the Spanish Colonial Revival Style.
The Arcadia Board of Education has been studying the legal status and requirements of driver education. So far driver education has not been offered at Arcadia High School this year.