Gorman Ca Development And Redevelopment

Two developers are hoping that bargain-hunters will soon be singing "I Bought It on the Grapevine." A pair of giant factory outlet centers totaling 720,000 square feet are being planned for the Golden State Freeway near Gorman, a truck-stop hamlet just below the Los Angeles-Kern county line, 65 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. They would continue a trend begun in the late 1980s, when manufacturers began opening wholesale outlets in the western United States.

A private prison company said Wednesday that it was eliminating a location near Gorman as a possible site for construction of a 500-bed medium-security prison because of community opposition. Cornell Corrections Inc., with offices in Ventura, plans to expand its search outside of Los Angeles County, said John Forren, the firm's vice president of operations. "We honestly believe that . . . [Cornell's] facilities offer some advantages to communities," Forren said.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Thursday rejected a plan to build the county's first power-generating wind farm in the hills northeast of Gorman, despite a 68% reduction in the size of the project since it was proposed three years ago. The board, siding with surrounding landowners and environmental groups, concluded that the wind farm would be a blight on the scenic slopes, promote erosion and threaten birds with its whirring blades.

A proposed factory outlet center near Gorman, consisting of 85 retail shops, has moved a step closer to reality. The Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission approved the planned 325,000-square-foot project Wednesday, clearing the way for the County Board of Supervisors to consider final approval of the development, proposed by the Washington-based McArthur/Glen Group. The project also would include a retail strip center to be built by The Sammis Co.

The Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to direct its staff to prepare a final environmental impact report on a proposed 85-store factory outlet center near Gorman. At the same time, the commissioners said they want to consider a slightly modified version of the proposal by McArthur/Glen Group, a Washington-based development firm that hopes to build the shopping center on 50 acres northeast of the junction of the Golden State Freeway and California 138.

As a stirring recording of "Pomp and Circumstance" filled the school auditorium, three eighth-graders in blue gowns and mortarboards marched solemnly toward the tiny stage. "Ladies and gentlemen," intoned Supt. Wesley Thomas, "I'd like to present the Class of 1989." Even for Gorman School, this was a sparse crop of graduates. Last year, it had six. Located in a small Spanish-style building 65 miles north of Los Angeles, the Gorman School District is, with 49 pupils and only one school, the smallest public school system in Los Angeles County.

A private prison company said Wednesday that it was eliminating a location near Gorman as a possible site for construction of a 500-bed medium-security prison because of community opposition. Cornell Corrections Inc., with offices in Ventura, plans to expand its search outside of Los Angeles County, said John Forren, the firm's vice president of operations. "We honestly believe that . . . [Cornell's] facilities offer some advantages to communities," Forren said.

A proposed factory outlet center near Gorman, consisting of 85 retail shops, has moved a step closer to reality. The Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission approved the planned 325,000-square-foot project Wednesday, clearing the way for the County Board of Supervisors to consider final approval of the development, proposed by the Washington-based McArthur/Glen Group. The project also would include a retail strip center to be built by The Sammis Co.

It's the Summer Games, developer style. This competition involves two well-matched contenders in a race to build giant factory outlet centers within five miles of one another off the Golden State Freeway on the Grapevine, the stretch of Tejon Pass winding through the Tehachapis on the Los Angeles-Kern County border. The players are publicly cagey--they maintain, when asked, that the area can sustain two competing centers.

A plan to harvest energy by building Los Angeles County's first wind farm on 270 acres of hilly ranchland near Gorman has drawn strong opposition from residents and environmentalists who claim it will bring visual blight to the now scenic, pristine area. Opponents say the proposed 458 windmills, many as tall as 150 feet, will lower property values, destroy a wildflower area that attracts sightseers in the spring and endanger birds that might fly into the whirling turbines.

The Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to direct its staff to prepare a final environmental impact report on a proposed 85-store factory outlet center near Gorman. At the same time, the commissioners said they want to consider a slightly modified version of the proposal by McArthur/Glen Group, a Washington-based development firm that hopes to build the shopping center on 50 acres northeast of the junction of the Golden State Freeway and California 138.

It's the Summer Games, developer style. This competition involves two well-matched contenders in a race to build giant factory outlet centers within five miles of one another off the Golden State Freeway on the Grapevine, the stretch of Tejon Pass winding through the Tehachapis on the Los Angeles-Kern County border. The players are publicly cagey--they maintain, when asked, that the area can sustain two competing centers.

Two developers are hoping that bargain-hunters will soon be singing "I Bought It on the Grapevine." A pair of giant factory outlet centers totaling 720,000 square feet are being planned for the Golden State Freeway near Gorman, a truck-stop hamlet just below the Los Angeles-Kern county line, 65 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. They would continue a trend begun in the late 1980s, when manufacturers began opening wholesale outlets in the western United States.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Thursday rejected a plan to build the county's first power-generating wind farm in the hills northeast of Gorman, despite a 68% reduction in the size of the project since it was proposed three years ago. The board, siding with surrounding landowners and environmental groups, concluded that the wind farm would be a blight on the scenic slopes, promote erosion and threaten birds with its whirring blades.

As a stirring recording of "Pomp and Circumstance" filled the school auditorium, three eighth-graders in blue gowns and mortarboards marched solemnly toward the tiny stage. "Ladies and gentlemen," intoned Supt. Wesley Thomas, "I'd like to present the Class of 1989." Even for Gorman School, this was a sparse crop of graduates. Last year, it had six. Located in a small Spanish-style building 65 miles north of Los Angeles, the Gorman School District is, with 49 pupils and only one school, the smallest public school system in Los Angeles County.

A plan to harvest energy by building Los Angeles County's first wind farm on 270 acres of hilly ranchland near Gorman has drawn strong opposition from residents and environmentalists who claim it will bring visual blight to the now scenic, pristine area. Opponents say the proposed 458 windmills, many as tall as 150 feet, will lower property values, destroy a wildflower area that attracts sightseers in the spring and endanger birds that might fly into the whirling turbines.