CONSTRUCTION ON VAN DE KAMP'S SITE TO BEGIN SOON.Byline: -- Jason Kandel Steve Maradian, the president of the Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. , is in charge of overseeing a $50-million project to convert the historic Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakery site in Atwater Village into a new satellite campus. He hopes that by the fall of 2009, the site will hold some 4,000 students who will be receiving basic job skills training, a much-needed option for a heavily Latino district. Some classes will be offered at as little as $20 a unit. Others will be offered free of charge, Maradian says. The site has sat vacant for about two decades and some residents have been a little steamed lately over whether the project will really be taking off. Weeds are climbing up a chain link fence. Trash is piling up on the sidewalk A Microsoft service that was launched in 1997 to provide online arts and entertainment guides on the Web for major cities worldwide. In 1999, Microsoft sold Sidewalk to Ticketmaster, which continued to provide guides, ticketing and other information to the MSN network. . And on a recent day, a big rig Big Rig was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area fronted by singer/songwriter Jesse Michaels. Michaels performed with the group after the break up of his previous project, Operation Ivy, and before forming the band Common Rider. -- sans trailer, a mini RV, and a roach coach sat near the curb. Maradian says the project has been mired mire n. 1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog. 2. Deep slimy soil or mud. 3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty. v. in bureaucracy, and a quake Quake - A string-oriented language designed to support the construction of Modula-3 programs from modules, interfaces and libraries. Written by Stephen Harrison of DEC SRC, 1993. fault line was recently discovered near the site, adding a new list of requirements to stabilize the building. But hopefully, if everything goes smoothly, a ground-breaking will occur in as little as three months, he says. He promises to work closely with surrounding residents to reduce impacts of increased traffic, and he even praised the local Coalition to Save Van de Kamp for helping keep the district on track. Officials will preserve the historic building, add a lane to the nearby Glendale Freeway The Glendale Freeway is a minor freeway in the Los Angeles, California, USA, metropolitan area. It runs from Glendale Boulevard in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles to Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge. Throughout its length, it is signed as California State Route 2. and have bus service to shuttle students to the campus. Now with all that in mind, I want to hear from readers on valleynews. com about how you feel about the project. |
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