CINEMA PROJECT ENDORSED.Byline: Enrique Rivero Daily News Staff Writer Local moviegoers will have 12 new theater screens to choose from under a proposal that has met the Planning Commission's standards after two years of delays. The commission voted Monday night to approve a proposal by Beverly Hills-based Nazarbekian Properties Trust for a 137,000-square-foot shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into at Lombard Street Lombard Street, in London, England. It is a street of banks and financial houses that takes its name from the Lombard merchants and moneylenders who settled there in the 13th cent. and Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. Boulevard. The project includes a 12-screen Edwards Cinema. "I think it's a nice project - I think it's one of the nicest I've seen recently," commission chairman Forrest Frields said Tuesday. The proposal will face its next test before the City Council. Last year architect Neal Scribner, who designed the Plaza Nuevo center, accused the city of stalling the project in order to push through a retail and entertainment complex anchored by a multiplex on 11 city-owned acres adjacent to the Civic Arts Plaza. Applications for Plaza Nuevo were submitted to the city more than two years ago. The city is in exclusive negotiations with El Segundo-based Kilroy Industries to devise a plan for the city center parcel. City officials have said that Nazarbekian held up his project by refusing to pay for a required traffic study, which has since been paid for. Scribner, the official spokesman for the project, did not return telephone calls Tuesday. In addition to the multiscreen Edwards Cinema, Plaza Nuevo includes stores, restaurants and a 1,100-space multilevel mul·ti·lev·el adj. Having several levels: a multilevel parking garage. Adj. 1. multilevel - of a building having more than one level parking lot. Under the plan, Edwards will add to the growing number of movie screens in the city. Edwards officials could not be reached Tuesday. The Mann Theatre chain recently completed a nine-screen theater in the Janss Marketplace, and will build an eight-screen complex in Caruso Affiliated Caruso Affiliated is a real estate development company in California, U.S.A.. It is headed by Rick Caruso. It is known particularly for building higher-end outdoor shopping centers. Holding's Thousand Oaks Towne Center on Thousand Oaks and Westlake boulevards. The Seventh-day Adventist Sev·enth-day Adventist n. A member of a sect of Adventism distinguished chiefly for its observance of the Sabbath on Saturday. Church's recently approved development on Wendy Drive also is slated to include a multiscreen theater. The Plaza Nuevo theater complex is Newport Beach-based Edwards' first incursion in·cur·sion n. 1. An aggressive entrance into foreign territory; a raid or invasion. 2. The act of entering another's territory or domain. 3. into the city and its fourth complex in Ventura County. Edwards now operates the Camarillo Palace 12 in Camarillo and the Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. Plaza 10 and Mountain Gate 7 in Simi Valley. Frields said that the apparent glut of movie screens was addressed by Edwards officials, who believe Thousand Oaks is a viable market. CAPTION(S): MAP[ordinal indicator, masculine]CHART Map (Conejo edition only) Plaza Nuevo Box SHOW TIME |
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