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MONROVIA HISTORY MUSEUM CELEBRATES 25 YEARS
Pasadena Council Recap: Hyatt Hotel Project Slated for Winter 2019
Hillside district anti-mansionization ordinance passes
Susan MOTANDER motander@yahoo.com
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Gus HERRERA gherrera@beaconmedianews.com
The Pasadena City Council’s most recent regular meeting saw an agenda filled with various development-related items. For starters, the city’s latest large-scale development, the Hyatt Place Hotel project, received a final green light. Although work is already underway where the Paseo Colorado Macy’s used to stand, the city still had to solidify the final tract map, which council swiftly approved without opposition. In addition to the sixstory, 179-room Hyatt Place Hotel, the project site
The Monrovia Historical Museum will be celebrating 25 years of business on Oct. 1. - Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
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THE MONROVIA OLD TOWN REPORT
onrovia’s rich history is celebrated every day, but in October there is going to be quite a party at the museum. The Museum will be celebrating the opening of the Museum 25 years ago. The event will take place on Sunday, Oct. 1, with an open house from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Tours of the Museum; and a recognition program at 2 p.m., to highlight the Museum's founding. No doubt Monrovia’s very own Historian, Steve Baker will be on hand to answer your questions about the city’s past. In 1986, three years after the closure of the Monrovia Municipal Plunge, the City of Monrovia celebrated the centennial as an outgrowth of this celebration; a group of residents established The Monrovia Historical Museum Foundation (MHM) and worked with the City to occupy the Municipal Plunge building with plans for an historic museum. The MHM qualified for a SEE PAGE 4
HIGHLIGHTING Downtown ARCADIA
Pam FITZPATRICK
New Development and Businesses in Downtown Arcadia
pam@oldtownreport.com
OK, now I’m ready for the fair to go bye-bye. By the end of September, Old Town Monrovia is the longtime friend you take for granted because you know they’ll always be there. But, seriously, though the fair is a bushel of fun for folks, and I do love seeing people have a good time, the fair is a killer for small
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business here in Monrovia, retail and restaurants alike. Those of us who have been around for a while try to plan for the down time, but now let’s get on with some activity here in town! A huge part of our problem in Old Town has been our lack of advertising. MOTAB, the city commission that oversees
our business improvement assessment funds, is working on a new logo, a new website and related social media advertising, which is great. But our print advertising – the stuff that visitors to town can pick up here, or see in their own cities, is lacking. SEE PAGE 4
Peter AMUNDSON, Arcadia Mayor During discussions a decade ago for “The Shops at Santa Anita,” a proposed Rick Caruso development on the Santa Anita Park parking lots, I saw how Arcadian’s yearned for a lively downtown to call
their own. While the Shops at Santa Anita development never came to be, the businesses and property owners that make up the Downtown Arcadia Improvement Association (DAIA) are now working to create that same kind of lively pedestrian-friendly experience in Downtown Arcadia instead. After years of foundation
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
LIFESTYLE
SPORTSOlympic Power
Magic of Reading Revived
Greg Goes for the Gold
Arcadia H20 Polo’s Hot Start
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work, things are starting to happen. Over 100 years ago Arcadia’s founder Elias “Lucky” Baldwin correctly envisioned that the trains coming through town would bring with it prosperity. History repeats itself as the Gold Line today has put SEE PAGE 3
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