County Waiting on Application for Shopping Center Project
The owners of the lot at the intersection of Lake and Altadena have filed a plan to improve the parking lot, landscaping, and signage of the shopping center, but the necessary permit application has not been completed, according to county planners.
The owner of a sizeable shopping center at the intersection of Lake Avenue and Altadena Boulevard has filed plans to repair and improve the site, but county planners are still waiting on a permit application to do the work.
The project at the lot at 737 to 741 Altadena Boulevard, which currently hosts a Rite Aid, Bulgarini Gelato, and other businesses, would consist of a sealing an re-striping the parking lot, landscaping improvements, and repairing signage at the site, according to Anthony Curzi of the Los Angele County Department of Regional Planning.
The plans were filed with the county about nine months ago, Curzi said, but after receiving them, the department told the owners that they would need to file a conditional use permit before the work was done. So far, Curzi said, he has not heard back from the owners, and he said he is uncertain when or if the work might be done.
The owners of the Rite Aid on the site have also filed for a permit to sell beer and wine, and there have been discussions of merging the two hearings into a single hearing if the applications are completed, Curzi added.
As noted by an Altadena Patch commenter, retail space at the development is being advertised at the Loopnet commerical real estate website with promises that the shopping center remodel will be complete in 2011. The Realtor contacts listed on the site did not return calls seeking comment from Altadena Patch.
The site plan and the advertisement with depictions of the remodel can be viewed at right.
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mister altadena
2:38 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Wonder why they need to file a permit for beer & wine; they already sell that.
A C.U.P will cost them $8K+. I'm sure someone on here can answer why they'd need a CUP to do a facelift. It doesn't look like they're changing the fundamental use of the business(es) at that location.
Melinda Risolo
12:28 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Sealing and re-striping the parking lot. Landscaping improvements. Repairing signage. Terrific.
It will take a few million dollars more to make Altadena's Fabulous Rite Aid Concrete Bunker something more than the biggest eyesore in this community of nearly 50,000. (A close second is the median along the Western Gateway to Altadena-- Woodbury Road, from Windsor Avenue all the way to Los Robles Avenue.)
What's unfortunate is that places like Bulgarini Gelato and Nancy's Bakery are buried in this Bunker. In a better world, they would be located at Mariposa Street and Lake Avenue, taking the place of a thrift store or storefront church, helping make the heart of Altadena worth being a place to stroll.
ed meyers
7:26 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
there are businesses for rent in the general Lake/Mariposa area..... Ben McGinty's old place, Erlander's place next to Dutch oven. I heard plans for a pizza place at Ben's old art gallery fell thru. Believe it or not, the new ambulance company (now located in the Alta View Ctr on Fontanet Way) had looked at the art gallery location. Webster's has the old video store bldg up for sale. There are some decent locations available; just have to convince decent businesses to open there!
My vote for the biggest eyesore in the community is the crater at Lake/Calaveras.
lonnie fehr
9:22 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
The owners of the Rite Aid on the site have also filed for a permit to sell beer and wine,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,another liquor store .....
Resident
11:07 am on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Time to get out of Altadena folks, and let nature take its course. The drive up Lake avenue is depressing. Sure, there are some nice businesses and store store fronts, but for the most part, it's a slum. It's filled with nail and hair salons, check cashing stations, store front churches and another on its way. I saw a guy dressed in a statue of liberty gown yesterday advertising "get $ 50 now". It doesn't look like it's getting any better. I don't want to die fighting for this city. It's not going to get any better in my lifetime. The schools are the worst in the area. I can't believe I have to pay a college tuition for kindergarten as well as supporting this horrible school system with my tax dollars All Altadena is missing are the hookers. Perhaps we can put them at the Rite Aid.
mister altadena
12:26 pm on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Likely the $50 lure was for tax services. Liberty Tax Service is all over this time of year.
It is time to limit the nail/hair salons & check cashing (CC) joints. Good news is that a CC store on Lake closed last yr.
Store front churches (SFC)? Enough of them too. Non retail places where many congregants don't spend $$ here - only drive up & then back. Didn't Pasadena limit churches in their city limits (?) years ago so they moved up the hill?
Problem is, SFC, CC & salons are here; many of them to stay, unless their business dries up. Hopefully CC stores will dry up when economy improve.
Hookers won't make it up here (unless they hang out in front of the CC stores! LOL).
Resident
2:27 pm on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Nail and hair salons have been here way before I moved to Altadena. The time to limit them was after the second one opened. Now it's every other business. The storefronts of these salons look absolutely neglected. I know of the check cashing station you mentioned that closed last year. It's only because it looked desperate for business.
We needed to start with our own school system, but our residents were not interested. We also need to break away from LA county. Not doing so is a sure fire way of continuing our reputation of being the "ghetto of the foothills", and yes we do have that reputation. The fact that violent rape is up in Altadena from last year is proof of our that.
Charles D
1:54 pm on Thursday, January 26, 2012
I can't wait to move out of this lousy town!!!
Gary Edwards
8:40 pm on Thursday, January 26, 2012
point car south on lake. drive 3 miles to freeway. it's easy.