COLLEGE CAMPUS MOVES FORWARD $5 MILLION EYED FOR CAMPUS INFRASTRUCTURE.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
PALMDALE - 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 College's board will meet tonight to approve an agreement for the development of a Palmdale campus that will eventually serve thousands of south valley residents. The contract will commit the college to providing $5 million to Western Pacific Housing toward improvements such as roads and utilities that are needed for the campus, a component of a master-planned community. If trustees approve the development contract, the college could open classes in modular buildings Modular buildings are sectional prefabricated buildings that are manufactured in a plant, and delivered to the customer in one or more complete modular sections. Modular buildings are considerably different from mobile homes. at the site as early as fall 2007, said college spokesman Steve Standerfer. The contract is the second of two agreements needed for the Palmdale campus to go forward. In October, officials approved an agreement in which the college will receive 70 acres for the campus. The contract will be considered at 4:30 p.m. today in room 151 of the college's Student Services building at 3041 W. Avenue K. The Palmdale college campus is to be built along 37th Street East, south of Barrel Springs Road. The campus is part of the 540-acre College Park project, a proposed 800-home housing development. The college site had been owned by Bushnell Binoculars binoculars Optical instrument for providing a magnified view of distant objects, consisting of two similar telescopes, one for each eye, mounted on a single frame. In most binoculars, each telescope has two prisms, which reinvert the inverted image provided by the eyepiece founder David Bushnell Noun 1. David Bushnell - American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824) Bushnell, Father of the Submarine , who died in March. The land for the campus is being donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. by a development partnership of Bushnell Enterprises and Schoellerman Investments. The balance of the College Park land is being acquired by Western Pacific Housing, a division of D.R. Horton, the nation's largest home builder. The $5 million agreement will be between the college and Western Pacific. Bushnell had first proposed providing the property as part of a housing development 13 years ago. The college now holds Palmdale classes in part of a leased office building on Palmdale Boulevard. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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