TWO DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS OK'D.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - City officials approved agreements with two development firms working on proposals to rebuild neighborhoods in the northern portion of the city. One proposal is to build homes on land bulldozed years ago to eliminate crime-ridden small apartments. The second is for negotiations on coming up with a plan for an area of aging homes and small businesses. ``This will improve the entire area,'' said Mark Bozigian, Lancaster's redevelopment agency director. Under an agreement approved unanimously Tuesday night, the city will sell 8.5 acres bordered by Avenues H-8 and H-12 and Beech and Cedar avenues for $480,000 to Avenue I Foundation Homes, which is already working on a 79-home project immediately to the north. The property will be used for the development of 42 homes. The property, now vacant, once had a major crime problem. Under a program dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. Operation High Desert Storm, the city began in the early 1990s acquiring property and demolishing mostly vacant fourplexes that attracted drug dealers and prostitutes. At the same meeting, also on a unanimous vote, the city agreed to enter into exclusive negotiations with InSite Development to come up with a proposal for four acres south of Avenue I between Elm Avenue 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 . The city's redevelopment agency is buying land in the area, now occupied by small businesses and aging homes, for a mixed-use development Mixed-use development refers to the practice of allowing more than one type of use in a building or set of buildings. In planning zone terms, this can mean some combination of residential, commercial, industrial, office, institutional, or other land uses. of affordable housing and retail stores. The Avenue I Foundation Homes effort is a partnership between MBK MBK Multiple Beam Klystron MBK Mitra Bisnis Keluarga (Indonesia microfinance) MBK Marktbearbeitungskonzept (German market development/cultivation/prospecting concept) MBK Multiple Backup Homes Ltd., a division of Mitsui & Co. Ltd., the world's 13th-largest corporation as rated by Fortune magazine, and Community Foundation Land Trust, a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. . The partnership acquired the 79-lot property last December for $1.7 million. The developer behind the InSite Development proposal is Steve Eglash, who is building the 76-unit senior housing Arbor arbor Garden shelter providing privacy and partial protection from the weather, most commonly a lightweight, latticed framework (trellis) of wood or metal with interlaced branches of vines or climbing shrubs trained over it. Gardens complex, described as the first major construction project in the revitalization 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. of the city's north downtown. The $9 million Arbor Gardens complex is going up at the southwest corner of Kettering Street and Elm Avenue, where city contractors last year bulldozed aging homes and a former church. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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