THOUSAND OAKS : Move of Municipal Offices Postponed
The Thousand Oaks government will postpone until the end of March a planned move to new headquarters, City Manager Grant Brimhall announced this week.
City officials had hoped to spend President’s Day weekend in mid-February moving from their current center, at 2150 W. Hillcrest Drive, to a new--but equally temporary--complex at 275 Conejo Ridge Drive. But that schedule proved too optimistic.
Before moving, the city must complete architectural plans for a new municipal service yard to be located on a 10-acre parcel in the Rancho Conejo Industrial Park, Brimhall said.
Thousand Oaks will acquire that property in a land swap with Amgen, the pharmaceutical manufacturer, which will obtain the city’s current service yard at 1851 DeHavilland Drive. In the same deal, the city agreed to sell Amgen the interim City Hall on West Hillcrest for $9.2 million.
Final papers on the sale and swap agreement cannot be signed until the Planning Commission approves plans for the municipal service yard, Brimhall said. Once the deal goes through, Amgen will pay up to $100,000 of the city’s moving costs. The company will also foot the bill--estimated at $120,000--for design and construction of a new city service yard.
The city will move to permanent offices in the Civic Arts Plaza when that complex is complete in the fall of 1994.
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