COUNCIL TO VOTE ON PARK CONTRACT.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Back in 1994, when 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 civic leaders were desperately trying to lure computer manufacturer Packard Bell See Packard Bell NEC. to Palmdale, a Packard Bell representative drove up for a weekend look around. He got off the freeway at Palmdale Boulevard, turned north on 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 and saw: an adult bookstore, a pawnshop, two bars, a military surplus store and a half-demolished 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 . ``Not a favorable impression,'' Mayor Jim Ledford acknowledges. It wasn't just the Packard Bell guy who noticed; residents were complaining too, the mayor said. ``We had a core of our city that was deteriorating,'' Ledford said. So as Packard Bell took its jobs north to Sacramento, Palmdale set about redoing the northern entrance to downtown. The city finished razing the fire-damaged Palmdale Plaza shopping center, built two roller hockey roller hockey n. Hockey played on a hard surface in which two opposing teams of roller skaters, using curved sticks, try to drive a ball into the opponents' goal. rinks, and bought and demolished - for a total cost of more than $10 million - the row of decaying store buildings on Sierra Highway's west side. On Wednesday, the City Council will take the next step: issuing a $1.1 million contract to turn that strip of dirt where the row of 45-year-old shops was demolished into a park 110 feet wide and just shy of a half-mile long. Bordering a meandering bicycle path bicycle path n → camino para ciclistas bicycle path n, bicycle track n → piste f cyclable bicycle path n that will run the length of the park will be areas of desert plants; ``meadows'' with rosemary, English lavender and other flowering shrubs; lawns with shade trees and picnic benches; small, man-made hills; and pine, London plane Noun 1. London plane - very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree Platanus acerifolia genus Platanus, Platanus - genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore , cypress and cedar trees. The evergreen trees and hills are meant to screen the highway from the railroad tracks at the rear of the park and the commercial buildings along Sixth Street East. The low bidder for the project was Terra Cal Construction of Baldwin Park. If the City Council votes Wednesday to give it the contract, construction is expected to begin in July and conclude in October. Besides building the park, the company as part of its contract will install a right-turn lane for northbound Sierra Highway into the Hammack Activity Center parking lot. The Edison Co. will remove power poles and bury electrical lines underground during the work. |
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