ON THE ROAD AGAIN WORK BEGINS ON WIDENING.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Widening work on Avenue G will help attract jobs to the 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 and enhance operations at Fox Field, Lancaster's mayor said Monday. In an $8 million project, Avenue G will be widened from two lanes to six lanes from 25th to 50th streets west. Widening the street will make the area more attractive to manufacturers and distribution centers like the Rite Aid Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) is a United States retailer and pharmacy chain, operating over 5,000 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Rite Aid Corporation is one of the nation's leading drugstore chains. and Michael's warehouses that opened a mile to the south. ``This will be a great gateway,'' said Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
Besides opening up now-vacant land for industry, the widened road will help Fox, the Antelope Valley's only general aviation airport, by improving access, city officials said. The work is being done through two contracts, one addressing the relocation of water and sewer lines and the installation of storm drains; and another in which the road will be widened, a center median built and landscaping installed, said Randy Williams For the baseball player, see . Randy Williams (born 23 August,1953) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump. He competed for the United States in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the long jump where he won the gold medal. , Lancaster's 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. . Much of the water and sewer line work has been completed. Part of the project involves the installation of about one mile of a 48-inch-diameter storm drain conduit line. About a quarter-mile of that work has been done, Williams said. Much of the grading work for the road widening has also been done, Williams said. ``We are still hoping for an early spring completion, but that's depending on the weather,'' Williams said. The project was delayed for several months after the discovery of a patch of Hoover's Woolly-Star, a plant that, at the start of the project, had been listed by federal and state regulators as a threatened species. The patch of flowers was roughly the size of a dining table, said Mark Bozigian, Lancaster's assistant to the city manager for redevelopment. By the time the city was able to get federal and state clearance to resume work, the plant had been removed from the list of threatened species, Bozigian said. The plant was taken off the list, 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. federal regulators, as the result of recovery efforts started in 1990 and because it has been found in hundreds of locations previously unknown through California. City officials want to attract commercial and industrial companies to what they call the Fox Field Industrial Corridor, the area between the Fox Field airport and 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. . In addition to attracting private businesses to the corridor, the city is working with the 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. to establish an armory in the area and is working with 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 and state officials on a plan to establish a law enforcement academy. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Signs mark the start of road work, above, being performed on Avenue G west of the 14 Freeway in Lancaster. Crews, left, work underground to install infrastructure. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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