PARK DEDICATED AT SITE OF FORMER SERVICE STATION AREA IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS TO CONTINUE.Byline: Cecilia Chan Staff Writer THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - The $378,000 Heritage Park was dedicated Thursday at Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Moody Court, a former gas station site that now features landscaping and a waterfall. City officials, residents and business owners were on hand to formally open triangular park, where visitors can sit on benches and enjoy the oaks, native shrubs and cascading waterfall. ``It's not your traditional park because it's limited by size,'' Deputy City Manager Scott Mitnick said. ``It's there for aesthetics, as well as for park use. ``This will prime the pump to get businesses around there to do improvements to their facilities,'' he said. The city purchased the land in 1998 for $110,000, using a federal Community Development Block Grant. Karleskint-Crum Inc. of San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. built the park with an additional $268,312 in block grants.
The park is the first phase of the city's long-term plan to revitalize a four-mile stretch of Thousand Oaks Boulevard from Moorpark Road to Duesenberg Drive. Plans call for decorative streetscape street·scape n. 1. An artistic representation of a street. 2. Surroundings composed of streets: the urban streetscape. , landscaping, benches and lighting to enhance the commercial corridor. ``It's just an example of what is going to come, a small example,'' Mitnick said. Other projects planed on the thoroughfare include a private venture, Gardens of the World, and the development of the east side parcel of the Civic Arts Plaza with restaurants, shops, cinemas, an outdoor ice skating ice skating, gliding along an ice surface on keellike runners known as ice skates. Skating as a Sport Skating, besides being an important form of winter recreation and the essential skill in the game of ice hockey (see hockey, ice) has developed rink and a children's museum. ``We are in the very early stages of a real exciting rejuvenation Rejuvenation Aeson in extreme old age, restored to youth by Medea. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI, I: 322] apples of perpetual youth by tasting the golden apples kept by Idhunn, the gods preserved their youth. [Scand. Myth. of the boulevard with both private and public monies,'' Mitnick said. Public sessions have been scheduled to bring the public up to date on the revitalization effort and the development of the east side parcel. The meetings are scheduled for: --7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Redwood Middle School Redwood Middle School can refer to the following:
--7 to 9 p.m. July 12 in the Los Cerritos Middle School multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective room, 2100 E. Avenida De Las Flores. --7 to 9 p.m. July 19 in the Sequoia Middle School multipurpose room, 2855 Borchard Road. |
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