CAMPER MAKER SETS AV MOVE : LANCE TO BRING 260 WORKERS TO LANCASTER.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
Eight years after its first discussions with city officials, Lance Camper is preparing to open its new Lancaster plant in February. Construction workers are putting the finishing touches finishing touches finish npl the finishing touches → der letzte Schliff finishing touches npl → ultimi ritocchi mpl on the factory - which covers nearly three acres of floor space - and employees say they are anxious to move out of Lance's Pacoima plant. ``I think management is getting tired of hearing us say, is it time to move yet? It's the utmost on everybody's minds,'' employee Sharon Klein Klein , Melanie 1882-1960. Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who first introduced play therapy and was the first to use psychoanalysis to treat young children. said. ``It'll give me two hours back on my day, 10 hours a week. It'll give me back some of my personal life.'' The recreational camper manufacturer plans to relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. to Lancaster from Pacoima, bringing 260 to 270 workers. About 80 of the workers have already moved their families to the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , said Norman Jacobson, director of sales and marketing for the company. ``The people we are hiring are people who reside in the Antelope Valley,'' Jacobson said. Among the new hires is Klein, 51, a Rosamond resident who was hired in July. The company is moving to a 120,000-square-foot complex that cost more than $4 million to build and is located on 11.25 acres at the southwest corner of Avenue K-8 and Fifth Street East. Lance Camper bought the site for $1.2 million through a city-arranged promissory note promissory note, unconditional written promise to pay a certain sum of money at a definite time to bearer or to a specified person on his order. Promissory notes are generally used as evidence of debt. . Under an August 1994 agreement, the company will receive a $257,000 city subsidy subsidy, financial assistance granted by a government or philanthropic foundation to a person or association for the purpose of promoting an enterprise considered beneficial to the public welfare. , which will go toward paying off the promissory note. That subsidy is based on a commitment of employing at least 235 workers for at least five years. The company could receive an additional $300,000 if it boosts employment to 385 workers. The company chose Lancaster because it wanted room to expand and needed affordable land. The company first started talking with Lancaster officials in the late 1980s, but the recession hit and delayed the plan. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (ran in AV only--color) Construction workers put finishing touches on the new Lance Camper facility set for a February opening. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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