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| "We're in a very dynamic environment, and you as
businesspeople know that better than anyone else,"
Ledford told members of the Palmdale Chamber of Commerce.
"There isn't any place in the city of Palmdale where
there isn't something going on," the major said.
"You will have a hard time buying raw land that
doesn't have a some kind of map on it for
development." That means local businesses will be
able to ride the wave of sales that will come with a
swelling sea of customers, Ledford said. |
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| A considerable part of that growth will spring up
along Avenue S, which runs east and west, and 10th Street
West, which runs north and south. One of the most
promising areas is one around the site picked for
construction of a new private hospital at 10th Street
West and Palmdale Boulevard, Ledford said. Although most
people are aware of the plans for the hospital,
"What they maybe don't know is that we have
approximately 500,000 square feet of office building
being processed in and around that hospital site,"
he said. |
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| The Palmdale Auto Center and the mall also are
growing, he said. If the Claim Jumper restaurant takes
over the theater space, the theaters, in turn, will move
to a new stadium-theater complex being constructed
northwest of the mall. That theater complex will be near
a Hilton Gardens hotel and about seven new restaurants,
Ledford said. At 10th Street West and Avenue M, the city
is taking steps to develop a new business park on 117
acres it owns on the southeast corner, the mayor
continued. |
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| When combined with development already under way or
recently completed between avenues O and O-8, such
efforts "will turn 10th Street West into our
Sepulveda Boulevard. It's going to connect the cities of
Lancaster and Palmdale in short order." Ledford
said. |
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| The major also spoke of work on the city's park
projects at 40th Street East and Avenue S and at 30th
Street West and Rancho Vista Boulevard (Avenue P); the
development of the 5,000-home Anaverde housing project at
20th Street West and Avenue S; and plans to attract a
light rail or other passenger system to connect the
Palmdale Transportation Center to the Palmdale Regional
Airport. |
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