PALMDALE CAMPUS DEAL DEVELOPER TO DONATE 70 ACRES FOR AVC SITE.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
PALMDALE - After 12 years of negotiations, and nine months after those talks were declared dead, Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. and developers have reached an agreement for the donation of land for a Palmdale campus. A development partnership will provide the college with nearly 70 acres of foothill land along 37th Street East, south of Barrel Springs Road, in exchange for the college agreeing to provide $5 million for installing streets and other public improvements. ``They understood our limits,'' AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C President Jackie Fisher said of the developers. ``We have a good relationship now. Everything is going in a positive direction.'' The land donation agreement is scheduled to come before the college's board Monday night. In January, the AVC board declared an end to the negotiations, saying the developers had insisted on the college picking up the entire $17 million tab for installing streets, water lines and other utilities needed for both the campus and for the proposed 800-home project. The college hired a consultant to pursue other possible locations for a Palmdale campus. ``We gave them a bottom line figure,'' said AVC board member Michael Adams
Michael Adams (born November 17, 1971 in Truro, Cornwall, England) is an International Grandmaster of chess. . ``Anything more than that is a gift of public funds See Fund, 3. See also: Public .'' The deal is being handled in two agreements: the land donation, to be considered Monday, and an agreement committing funds to the infrastructure development, which will likely come before the college board sometime in October. If the agreements go through, the college hopes that escrow escrow Instrument, such as a deed, money, or property, that constitutes evidence of obligations between two or more parties and is held by a third party. It is delivered by the third party only upon fulfillment of some condition. for the property closes by January. The developers plan to start improvements in early spring. It will be at least a couple of years before the college could look at putting in the first of its facilities, officials said. The 540-acre College Park site had been owned by Bushnell Binoculars binoculars Optical instrument for providing a magnified view of distant objects, consisting of two similar telescopes, one for each eye, mounted on a single frame. In most binoculars, each telescope has two prisms, which reinvert the inverted image provided by the eyepiece founder David Bushnell Noun 1. David Bushnell - American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824) Bushnell, Father of the Submarine , who died in March. The land for the campus is being donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. by a development partnership of Bushnell Enterprises and Schoellerman Investments. The balance of the College Park land is being acquired by Western Pacific Housing, a division of DR Horton, the nation's largest home builder. Before state officials will allow construction of the second campus, the college must sustain an enrollment of at least the equivalent of 500 full- time students in Palmdale. AVC now holds classes in part of a leased office building on Palmdale Boulevard. It will need a couple of years to build up enrollment to the 500 student threshold, officials said. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, map Photo: The nearly 70 acres for the Palmdale branch is along 37th Street East, south of Barrel Springs Road. The agreement still requires formal approval from AVC. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer Map: Proposed Antelope Valley College Palmdale Campus |
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