COLLEGE EYES AIRPORT SITE DISCUSSIONS COULD LEAD TO FALL SESSION CLASSES.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. officials are trying to revive classes in Palmdale. The college is in negotiations about the possibility of a three-year lease of a former aircraft plant recreation center at Avenue P and 30th Street East. The college had hosted classes at the center in 2002, but was forced out as the result of complications stemming from the collapse of an aircraft modification A change in the physical characteristics of aircraft, accomplished either by a change in production specifications or by alteration of items already produced. company. AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C President Jackie Fisher said he was optimistic about the discussions with Los Angeles World Airports Los Angeles World Airports or LAWA is the airport oversight and operations department for the city of Los Angeles, California. This department owns and operates Los Angeles International Airport, LA/Ontario International Airport, Palmdale Regional Airport, and Van , Los Angeles' airports department, which owns the property. ``Hopefully we'll have a decision within a month,'' Fisher said. If all goes well, the college could be back at the recreation center in time for fall classes, Fisher said. Ideally, the college will be able to use the recreation center as a temporary campus and then move into a proposed permanent Palmdale campus south of Barrel Springs Road between 37th and 47th streets east, Fisher said. Palmdale city officials and Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San say they support the use of the recreation center, part of the Site 9 complex where the B-1B bombers were built in the 1980s, as a college campus. The recreation center is well-suited for a college operation. The 47,000- square-foot building has nine rooms that can be used as classrooms, ranging in capacity from 35 to 44 people. The center also has a gymnasium, four tennis courts, a fitness center, two lighted softball fields, a sand volleyball court and four handball handball Any of a variety games in which a small rubber ball is struck against a wall with the hand or fist. It can be played in a three- or four-walled court or against a single wall by two or four players (in singles or doubles games, respectively). courts. In 2002, AVC operated classes out of the recreation center under a lease agreement with SR Technics tech·nic n. 1. technics (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The theory, principles, or study of an art or a process. 2. technics (used with a pl. verb) Technical details, rules, or methods. 3. America, an aircraft modification company that was operating out of Site 9. The recreation center was a popular location for south 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 residents, drawing more than 1,000 students. SR Technics America ceased operations, however, after its business collapsed as the result of a downturn in commercial aviation following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and internal problems with its Swiss corporate backers, SAirGroup. SR Technics America exercised a clause in the agreement that allowed the company to cancel the lease with the college after the fall 2002 semester. Los Angeles World Airports has since acquired Site 9 and is marketing it to potential aircraft companies. College officials hope to eventually establish a permanent, 80-acre campus in Palmdale that would be part of a master-planned housing development proposed on 540 acres. Palmdale and college officials have been working on the plans for several years with developer 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 . At this point, however, the college does not have any funding to move forward with that project. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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