LATINO MARKET SITS, A SHELL OF ITS FORMER PLANS SHOPPING CENTER LEFT WITHOUT ITS ANCHOR TENANT.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, -- The building sits empty, a vacancy that has left a 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 without its anchor tenant. The Tresierras supermarket at 23780 San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the was supposed to open in November 2005. But the nearly 30,000-square-foot building meant to house the Latino market is only an empty shell, with dirt for a floor. Tresierras submitted a permit application nearly a year ago to build out the interior of the store, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. city documents. But the company never followed up with needed revisions to the plan. ``It expired without us actually issuing a permit,'' said Bill Read, assistant building official with the city. ``And at this stage in the game from what I can tell from all the records that we have, they simply stopped the process for whatever reason.'' Tresierras Supermarkets and the owner of the property did not return several calls seeking comment. Just a few minutes' drive away from the empty building meant to house Tresierras, another Latino supermarket has been packing in the parking lot at Lyons Avenue and Orchard orchard, generally an area on which fruit or nut trees are planted and cultivated. The words grove and plantation are often used when the fruits are tropical, e.g., a "citrus grove" or a "banana plantation. Village Road. The 38,000-square-foot Vallarta supermarket opened last month at the location, becoming the shopping center's new anchor tenant. Juan Palos, who works at a laundry in the L-shaped strip mall strip mall n. A shopping complex containing a row of various stores, businesses, and restaurants that usually open onto a common parking lot. Noun 1. where Tresierras was supposed to open, said he thinks Tresierras did not want to have its new store compete with Vallarta. ``The Vallarta got more power, so the people they chose Vallarta is better,'' he said in broken English. Tresierras Supermarkets is a family-run business that already has a location in Newhall, along with four other Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, locations. After submitting its permit application in February 2006 to build the interior of the store, Tresierras got the permit application back from the city to make revisions, Read said. But the company never followed up, and the permit expired. The company can still re-apply for a permit, Read said. At a May 2005 groundbreaking for the full-service supermarket, the company said its new Santa Clarita location would open in November of that year. alex.dobuzinskis@dailynews.com (661) 257-5253 |
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