FAIRGROUND STICKER SHOCK HIGH BIDS HAVE OFFICIALS MULLING OPTIONS.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - City and 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 Fair officials are pondering pon·der v. pon·dered, pon·der·ing, pon·ders v.tr. To weigh in the mind with thoroughness and care. v.intr. To reflect or consider with thoroughness and care. their next course of action after bids for the construction of the new fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. came in well over the anticipated $12 million price tag. City and fair officials said they were surprised and disappointed that contractors' bids ranged between $14.6 million and $17.4 million. City and fair officials plan to meet with contractors next week to see how they might cut costs. ``We are analyzing what course of action we need to take,'' said City Manager Jim Gilley. ``We'll make a decision over the next month. It's going to be a collaborative effort with the fair board.'' Buildings planned for the first phase of the new fairgrounds include a new watch-and-wager satellite betting building, two main exhibit halls, a show arena, livestock livestock Farm animals, with the exception of poultry. In Western countries the category encompasses primarily cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, horses, donkeys, and mules; other animals (e.g., buffalo, oxen, or camels) may predominate in other areas. barns, and a grandstand capable of handling 7,000 people. City and fair officials plan to add a 85,000-square-foot horse arena that can be converted for other uses, including ice hockey ice hockey: see hockey, ice. ice hockey Game played on an ice rink by two teams of six players on skates. The object is to drive a puck (a small, hard rubber disk) into the opponents' goal with a hockey stick, thus scoring one point. . Last spring, California voters approved a $2.1 billion parks bond measure that specifically earmarked $4.25 million for the construction of the horse arena. Prices were higher across the board for the entire project and there wasn't any one element of the construction plan that caused the bid numbers to be higher than anticipated, said fair manager Dan Jacobs. ``It's a setback setback In architecture, a steplike recession in the profile of a high-rise building. Usually dictated by building codes to allow sunlight to reach streets and lower floors, the building must take another step back from the street for every specified added height interval. , but we plan to move ahead,'' Jacobs said. The city and the fair board are working to move the fairgrounds from the current 75-acre site at Division Street and Avenue I to a 135-acre site between avenues G and H, west of the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. . The fair board and Lancaster officials have been working since 1991 to relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. the fairgrounds from the Division Street and Avenue I site. Purchased with proceeds from a hay auction in 1938, the existing site is deemed too small and is hemmed in by development. Under an October 1999 agreement, the city will build a new fairgrounds in exchange for receiving the existing fairgrounds. The existing fairgrounds will be bulldozed, with the exception of Challenger Hall and Yucca Center. Those two building will be retained and used for city parks and recreation programs. City officials envision the rest of the fairgrounds will be sold for the construction of single-family homes. |
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