Land Sale Gets Hopes Up for Town Center
The recent sale of a 36-acre tract has local leaders and developers focusing on the future of the evolving downtown area.
The land at Tapo Canyon Road and Alamo Street is near where city leaders put the civic center in the 1970s and added a library and City Hall in the 1980s.
City officials hope that whatever is built on the land once owned by the school district will also complement the town center. “I don’t think that Simi will ever have a downtown like Ventura or Santa Barbara,” Councilman Paul Miller said. “But I think what we will see is a town center that has some exciting potential for pulling a town together.”
Selleck Properties, which bought the land from the school district for $13.75 million, will soon begin planning a commercial center, homes and some senior housing, said Bob Selleck, the firm’s president.
“We are going to begin the process immediately,” Selleck said, adding that it could take at least a year or two before construction begins.
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