The Santa Clarita City Council will consider negotiating with Laemmle Theatres and a developer partner to bring a 6-screen Laemmle art house movie theater and residential units to Old Town Newhall. The location under discussion is the empty city block that’s owned by the city and its former redevelopment...

The same people who championed Proposition 13 in 1978 are working to restore redevelopment in California. On Wednesday – two years after the governor and Legislature wiped redevelopment off the state’s books – Attorney General Kamala Harris cleared the way for a group of seasoned campaign consultants...

City contractors raze the vacant buildings of the “redevelopment block” in June 2012. Click image for more photos & info. Redevelopment in California is dead, but the paperwork continues for redevelopment agencies that still owned property when the state pulled the plug in early 2012. Like...

The Los Angeles County Auditor-Controller has invoiced the city of Santa Clarita’s “successor agency” to its former redevelopment agency for $543,415.89, representing excess revenues the agency received during the 2011-12 fiscal year. City Redevelopment Manager Arminé Chaparyan said...

Cameron Smyth Nearly $9 million in redevelopment agency money is one step closer to be returned to the coffers of the City of Santa Clarita following passage of AB 1585 on Monday by the state Assembly, including an across-the-aisle vote by 38th District Assembly Member Cameron Smyth. “It would have...

The Santa Clarita City Council said goodbye to nine members of the Newhall Redevelopment Committee (NRC) whose contribution, although greatly appreciated, became moot once redevelopment agencies were dissolved by Governor Jerry Brown. “Thanks to your dedication and partnership with the city, Old Town...

At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting the City Council Ad-Hoc Subcommittee on Redevelopment is recommending council support three redevelopment agency wind down bills that could prevent millions of dollars being lost by the city. Three bills, SB 654, SB 986 and AB 1585, have been amended or introduced...

The Newhall Redevelopment Committee has ceased to exist. Word came late Thursday from City Manager Ken Pulskamp in the form of a letter to Newhall Redevelopment Committee members (including this writer). The Newhall Redevelopment Committee is – or was – an all-volunteer advisory body to the City...

Roger and Nate Hasper | Photo: Stephen K. Peeples When you think of the family business, you don’t always put together bicycles and wine – but in downtown Newhall, the city cut the ribbon Tuesday on a façade project that benefits the brothers Hasper – Roger, who owns Newhall Bicycle Company and...

In this episode: Antonovich reacts to ruling against Proposition 8. Also: Newhall Redevelopment Committee in limbo, projects get placed on hold. SCV Sports: Indians gear up to take on Vikings in the High School Basketball Game of the Week Finally:  Third Annual Project Prom collects gowns, tuxedos,...