GLENDALE : Parking Issue Stalls Vote on Health Club
After a month of negotiations between a bank and a health club failed, the Glendale Redevelopment Agency on Tuesday indefinitely postponed action on a request by Bally’s Holiday Health Club to open a downtown facility with fewer than the required number of parking spaces.
Bally’s is seeking to convert a vacant, 34,000-square-foot commercial building at 210 W. Lexington Drive into a health club that would be expected to draw about 2,500 members.
The building has spaces for only 78 vehicles where 170 spaces are required. An exception would be one of the largest ever granted in the city.
Representatives of Glendale Federal Bank, which owns the building, had agreed earlier to allow the health spa to use spaces in the bank’s nearby parking structure. However, bank officials last month said they objected to restrictions on bank parking proposed by the city.
Negotiations are expected to continue.
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