CULTURAL REBIRTH CIVIC CENTER REMODELING EXPECTED TO CONCLUDE THIS YEAR.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - The last two major pieces of the new Civic Center - a remodeled Cultural Center and new City Council chambers - are under construction and are expected to be completed this year. The $4.1 million project will provide more room for residents to attend council meetings and will make the Cultural Center, a popular meeting spot that gets about 6,500 visitors a month, more functional and more accessible to residents with disabilities, officials said. ``That's why this project was such a high priority for the City Council,'' said Leon Swain, deputy 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. . ``It's a well-used facility. This project will make the center better able to accommodate those meetings.'' The Cultural Center remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling is expected to be completed in August, and the new council chambers should be ready by December. The remodeling will add two towers to the front of the 21-year-old Cultural Center building - one containing an elevator elevator, in machinery elevator, in machinery, device for transporting people or goods from one level to another. The term is applied to the enclosed structures as well as the open platforms used to provide vertical transportation in buildings, large ships, , the other housing a stairwell stair·well n. A vertical shaft around which a staircase has been built. stairwell Noun a vertical shaft in a building that contains a staircase Noun 1. . The remodeling will create more open space in the main auditorium, provide a second-floor balcony and improve access to meeting rooms, Swain said. The Cultural Center will gain more storage area, new carpeting, new paint and new furniture. The remodeling also will provide easier access for caterers, Swain said. Improvements will be made to the front of the building, including replacing an aging Spanish-style fountain with a 18-foot by 12-foot, four- step tiered fountain. Groups utilizing the center range from public agencies holding hearings to church groups to art associations. The council chambers project would replace the existing 70-seat, 2,000- square-foot chambers with a 2,850-square-foot building capable of seating 125 people. The construction work also will connect the city finance building with the administration building and reconfigure To change the status of something. the parking lot. The work is being done by Webb Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Construction, the same Lancaster company that built the new City Hall and the neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. courthouse. The entire Civic Center makeover is estimated to cost about $13.3 million. Built in the 1970s when Palmdale had just a few thousand residents, the Civic Center is being overhauled to meet the needs of a city with more than 120,000 people. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- 3 -- color) Work continues at the Palmdale Cultural Center, left, as part of a remodeling of the city's civic core to reflect the growth of the past few decades. Workers on Tuesday clear debris from an upstairs room, top, while a forklift raises a bin to collect it, above. (4 -- color) Scaffolding occupies an upstairs banquet room banquet room n. A large room, as in a restaurant, suitable for banquets. at the Palmdale Cultural Center. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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