LANCASTER TO SELL STATE LAND FOR NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - More than 28 acres near Fox Field airport will be sold to the state for the development of a $6.8 million California National Guard The California National Guard is the component of the United States National Guard in the U.S. state of California. It comprises both Army and Air National Guard components. armory. The city's redevelopment agency is selling the state a parcel located east of 50th Street West between the airfield and Avenue G for $1 million. The sale proceeds will pay for roads and other improvements to serve the armory as well as make adjoining city property more attractive to potential business buyers. ``That's a great project,'' said Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
The State 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. Board is scheduled to vote on the land acquisition at a meeting Friday in Sacramento. The National Guard wants to build approximately 40,000 square feet of new office and training facilities to house two companies - the 170-member 756th Transportation Company and the 206-man 49th Quartermaster quartermaster Officer who oversees arrangements for the quartering and movement of troops. The office dates at least to the 15th century in Europe. The French minister of war under Louis XIV created a quartermaster general's department that dotted the countryside with Company. There would be a small cadre (company) CADRE - The US software engineering vendor which merged with Bachman Information Systems to form Cayenne Software in July 1996. of full-time workers at the armory. The rest of the 756th and the quartermaster personnel would be traditional ``weekend warriors'' who serve one weekend a month and a two-week annual tour of duty, unless their units are called up for extended active duty. Construction of the armory, which the state refers to as a readiness center, is expected to begin in summer 2004 and be finished in 2005. Three-fourths of the sale proceeds will go into an account the city will use for off-site improvements, primarily the construction of 45th Street West from the armory to Avenue G, said Mark Bozigian, Lancaster's redevelopment agency director. One-fourth of the sale proceeds will go toward an account to handle any environmental contingencies environmental contingencies (en·vīˑ·r  n·menˈ·t that might arise at the project site.
The bulk of the funding for the project is coming from a $4.5 million allocation in the 2002 defense appropriations bill. The armory site was part of 120 acres of airport property the city acquired from 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 in 2000 for $1.38 million. |
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