Office Park

Bill Henry walked the new park named for his slain son, Police Officer Bob Henry, for the first time Monday, admiring the ball diamonds, soccer fields, play equipment, walkways and a tree transplanted from the nearby crime scene. "It's really looking great," said Henry, 63, who was in town from Murietta on business. "It's fantastic to have a park named after your son--it's a hell of a price to pay to get it."

A Hesperia man trying to evade police officers during a 16-minute chase Saturday made his capture a lot easier when he accidentally drove his car into the parking lot of the Van Nuys police station, authorities said Sunday. Jack Darrel Smith, 36, who was suspected of trying to buy illicit drugs, was arrested after he abandoned his car on the ramp leading to the police station's second-story parking lot, said Sgt. Robert Davis of the Los Angeles Police Department's Devonshire Division.

Tenants in the Village Green Office Park said Monday they fear a flock of newly hatched ducklings living in a man-made stream that winds through the complex has perished since the water was recently drained. The business people, who have been putting out bowls and children's plastic pools filled with water for the ducks, said that Greenbrier Properties, the building's management company, drained the stream to clean it and replace a filtration system.

Los Angeles County safety experts Thursday scrambled to determine what is causing the major landslide that has undermined a hilltop office park in the aptly named South Bay community of Rolling Hills Estates. Workers from 18 small businesses evacuated two buildings Wednesday afternoon as the walls began to warp, windows cracked under pressure and sidewalks outside buckled. The buildings were temporarily condemned by county firefighters, and a third was closed to everyone but tenants.

Silagi Development Co. of Thousand Oaks has announced plans for a $10-million office park in Westlake. Construction is expected to begin by the end of November on the two-building, 95,000-square-foot office complex to be known as Westlake Gardens. The 4.7-acre site at 2535 Townsgate Road, visible from the Ventura Freeway, was acquired by Silagi from IBM.

After weeks of listening to complaints from citizens, city officials have agreed to restore 10 parking spaces that were removed from in front of the Van Nuys Civic Center post office for security reasons, City Councilman Marvin Braude said Monday.

L.A. Cellular Telephone Co. will be expanding operations and moving into a 100,000-square-foot office complex in Anaheim next month. The cellular-phone company said it plans to move 700 jobs to the city from offices in Cypress and Cerritos, then expects to create 200 new positions by the end of the year. City officials said the move is part of a trend by high-technology companies to move into facilities abandoned by the retreating defense industry. The company's new office, at 5515 E.

In its first major commercial building purchase outside of its Orange County holdings, the Irvine Co. on Tuesday bought a high-tech business park in San Diego for about $26 million in cash, according to brokers. The purchase is seen as part of the Irvine Co.'s plan to take its portfolio of office towers and industrial buildings public by forming a real estate investment trust (REIT).

Hundreds of supply clerks, computer processors and other civilian employees at the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Port Hueneme were ordered off the job Tuesday, just some of the Ventura County victims of a federal budget impasse 3,000 miles away. In Thousand Oaks, Navy recruiters slouched around a rented office, unable to use the phones or do anything else that might run up a bill. At the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley, about 20 archivists were abruptly sent home.

They are just three little placards, three small signs on a chain-link fence by the side of rumbling Lincoln Boulevard in Playa del Rey. On them are the cryptic hand-painted words "Independence Day," "Lava" and "Nixon." Graphically, the signs are about as impressive as a panhandler's "Will Work For Food" plea. But symbolically, the ragtag roadside display represents the arrival of a significant new production center for the film industry in Los Angeles.