FACE LIFT FORECAST; PALMDALE APPLYING FOR FUNDS TO RENOVATE HAMMACK YOUTH CENTER.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Palmdale is planning a major renovation of the Richard B. Hammack Activity Center, which includes removing the building's sign tower, a prominent feature of what once was the Palmdale Plaza 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 , and replacing it with a three-faced clock tower. Other improvements planned include new carpeting, upgrades to the exterior, new signage and painted graphics, and a new paint scheme. ``The idea is to make it look like the youth library,'' said Mayor Jim Ledford. Palmdale plans to apply for a $298,000 grant through the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Regional Park and Open Space District, which is funded by a county ballot measure. The city would contribute $29,700 in matching funding, city officials said. The grant would also provide for the repair and repainting of the 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 adjacent to the center. The youth center building, once a supermarket and later a toy store A toy store, or toy shop, is a retail business specializing in the services of selling toys. No longer held to the limitations of the brick and mortar outlet, the toy store has successfully created a presence within the e-commerce industry. , is the last remnant of the Palmdale Plaza, the city's main shopping center until the early 1990s. Built in the 1950s, the center deteriorated after losing business from the recession and from competition from the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California. Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0. . After a series of arson fires, the city razed raze also rase tr.v. razed also rased, raz·ing also ras·ing, raz·es also ras·es 1. To level to the ground; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin. 2. To scrape or shave off. 3. the rest of the buildings in 1995. The city's goal is to turn the area into a youth complex. Since the youth center opened in 1992, the city has added the two roller rinks and the youth library to the area. Palmdale officials are looking at other possibilities for the area, including a skateboard park and a small amphitheater amphitheater (ăm`fəthē'ətər, ăm`pə–), open structure used for the exhibition of gladiatorial contests, struggles of wild beasts, sham sea battles, and similar spectacles. , Ledford said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) The Hammack youth center in Palmdale is in line for a major renovation, including such exterior upgrades as replacing the building's sign tower with a three-faced clock tower. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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