Workshops Set on Senior Citizens Project
Senior citizens should have an affordable place to live and a convenient place to gather by 2000, thanks to a city project that will cost about $4.8 million.
The city’s Redevelopment Agency, along with Metropolitan Development, will build about 60 apartments and a senior center. The developers, architect and City Council will discuss the plan at a public workshop today.
The senior housing project will be built on two acres of city-owned land on Walker Street, south of Orangethorpe Boulevard. The City Council will lend the redevelopment agency $4.76 million, to be repaid over 30 years.
Construction could begin in late spring, City Planner Joan Hoesterey said.
“The fact that this will be the city’s first senior center is what makes it really exciting,” Hoesterey said.
The City Council approved the development agreement last month.
At least three more workshops will follow.
The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Center North, La Palma Recreation Center, 7821 Walker St.
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