CITY PROJECTS OFF AND RUNNING PARKS, SHERIFF'S STATION, MORE NEAR COMPLETION.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - In coming months Palmdale residents should see the completion of two super parks, a transportation center, the widening of Avenue S and a permanent sheriff's station. Totaling nearly $100 million, the projects will provide residents with improved transportation and additional recreation as well as help draw in new businesses, said Mayor Jim Ledford. ``Employers look at the quality of life for their workers,'' Ledford said. ``We're now the prettiest girl at the dance.'' The biggest project cost-wise, at $43 million, is the construction of two super parks - an expanded Marie Kerr Park on Rancho Vista Boulevard at 30th Street West and a new eastside aquatic park Aquatic Park may refer to:
Work on both parks is about 50 percent complete. The city is looking at a July 1 completion date, said Leon Swain, the city's director of public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. . The eastside aquatic park, with a Western mining-town theme, will have three 35-foot-tall water slides, a 900-foot-long ``lazy'' river, a 6,000- square-foot children's water playground, a snack bar, a covered picnic area and a large grassy area for group outings. The expanded Marie Kerr Park will include a 7,000-seat amphitheater with a 60-foot-by-40-foot covered stage and an 800-square-foot dressing room-restroom building. Seven softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' fields with lights also are planned. The bulk of the work will be completed in 2005 with the exception of the Marie Kerr Park recreation center and the covers for the two pools. Those are expected to be added in two to three years. Also slated to be completed in the summer is the $23 million widening of Avenue S from the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. to 20th Street East. The avenue, one of the city's major east-west corridors The East-West Corridor is the built-up area of north Trinidad stretching from the capital, Port of Spain, 15 miles east to Arima. The term was coined by economist and political philosopher Lloyd Best, after gleaning the works of a technocrat named Lynette Attwell. , is being widened from two lanes to four. The work involves constructing two new bridges over the Union Pacific railroad Union Pacific Railroad, transportation company chartered (1862) by Congress to build part of the nation's first transcontinental railroad line. Under terms of the Pacific Railroads Act, the Union Pacific was authorized to build a line westward from Omaha, Nebr. tracks between Casa Verde Drive and 20th Street East. The first of those bridges is expected to be completed in January. After the first bridge is completed beside the existing bridge, that bridge will be demolished de·mol·ish tr.v. de·mol·ished, de·mol·ish·ing, de·mol·ish·es 1. To tear down completely; raze. 2. To do away with completely; put an end to. 3. and work will start on a second bridge, which is expected to be completed in August. ``The existing bridge doesn't meet seismic codes or the new clearances for the railroad,'' Swain said. ``It will cost less to build a new bridge than to retrofit ret·ro·fit v. ret·ro·fit·ted or ret·ro·fit, ret·ro·fit·ting, ret·ro·fits v.tr. 1. To provide (a jet, automobile, computer, or factory, for example) with parts, devices, or equipment not in the old one.'' The project is about 60 percent complete now. Besides widening the street, the work will include installing new traffic signals and upgrading others, adding a bike path, realigning the intersection with 20th Street East, and installing new warning lights and crossing gates at the Metrolink train crossing near Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . The first major project to be completed next year is the city's new $8.2 million transportation center. The center, which will include a Metrolink train station, is being built on 26 acres beside the Metrolink tracks, west of Sierra Highway and south of Technology Drive. The center will include a train passenger loading platform, a 300-space parking lot, a 200-space park-and-ride lot, an eight-bus transfer center and a 3,150-square-foot transit terminal with a commuter service center. Bus service is expected to begin at the center in either late January or early February. A date has not been set for Metrolink service; it appears it will start up sometime in February, Swain said. The $24 million sheriff's station being built along Sierra Highway at Avenue Q is a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County project, although the city has helped with some costs. The exterior work on the new 48,000-square-foot building and approximately 15,000 square feet of outbuildings is expected to be completed in July, with move-in expected by December 2005. Work is about 35 percent complete, said Ken Pellman, spokesman for the county's Public Works Department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
The new facility will include a 7,800-square-foot jail so deputies no longer have to transport suspects to Lancaster and an 8,300-square-foot service bay for patrol cars so the cars can be serviced on site. The new station will replace a crowded leased station in a 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 on 10th Street East at Palmdale Boulevard. The station opened in 1992 when 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 sheriff's station area split into the Palmdale and Lancaster stations. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Workers construct a new Palmdale sheriff's station. The 48,000-square-foot, $24 million building and 15,000 square feet of outbuildings are being built along Sierra Highway at Avenue Q, with move-in expected by December 2005. (2) A steel frame is up during construction of a building at Marie Kerr Park on Rancho Vista Boulevard at 30th Street West. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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