ROLLER RINKS, ROADS PLANNED IN PALMDALE\City wants to make downtown a magnet; new zone will grow.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Two roller hockey roller hockey n. Hockey played on a hard surface in which two opposing teams of roller skaters, using curved sticks, try to drive a ball into the opponents' goal. rinks to bring people downtown and road and utility work to open large chunks of land for development are among the projects in the works for Palmdale in 1996. A big push will be made this year to open areas for development. The city allocated nearly $1 million for the construction of Avenue O between 10th Street West and Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling , Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford said. "You're going to see that whole area being developed," Ledford said. "That will be one of our big focuses." Palmdale is in negotiations with Joe and Bernard Sparer, owners of a 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. garment manufacturing company, who want to build a 150,000-square-foot industrial park at the southeast corner of Avenue M and 10th Street East. Plans call for a building costing $4.5 million to $5 million, with approximately an equal amount in equipment. The business would open with 250 to 300 workers. Palmdale officials are looking at what roads and utilities need to be in place for the development to occur, Ledford said. Two roller hockey rinks will be built in the Palmdale Plaza, on Sierra Highway at Avenue Q-6, as part of an effort to bring people back into downtown Palmdale. The rinks will be adjacent to the Hammack Activity Center. One will be a 20,000-square-foot concrete rink with sideboards side·board n. 1. A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linens and tableware. 2. A board that forms a side or part of a side: the sideboards of a skating rink. and lights. The other will be a practice rink on an asphalt asphalt (ăs`fôlt, –fălt), brownish-black substance used commonly in road making, roofing, and waterproofing. Chemically, it is a natural mixture of hydrocarbons. slab. The two rinks are part of a $630,000 effort to improve the Palmdale Plaza and revitalize re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. downtown. That effort includes improvements to the Hammack building, including a new paint job, fencing fencing, sport of dueling with foil, épée, and saber. Modern Fencing The weapons and rules of modern fencing evolved from combat weapons and their usage. and landscaping. Other improvements include parkway trees and irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. along Avenue Q-6 and Ninth Street East, construction of a trash enclosure, reconstruction of driveways and construction of a parking lot. Palmdale is still a couple of years away from starting on one of its biggest capital projects: a $12 million City Hall. City officials plan for the three-story, Spanish/Mediterranean-style complex to be built southeast of the present City Hall. Most of the funding - $6.9 million - will come from payments from Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r Ranch and from Kaufman and Broad, developers building large housing projects. Combined, the two developers have provided $1 million thus far, but will hold off on the rest of their financial commitment until after they begin selling homes. "They have indicated they are not ready yet because of the condition of the housing market," said Assistant City Manager Ron Creagh. Palmdale has spent about $892,000 on design work for the new City Hall. "We have a stack of construction plans about a foot thick," Creagh said. Palmdale's present City Hall was built in the 1960s, when the population was about 13,000, one-eighth of what it is now. |
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