Los Angeles County Public Health officials on Friday confirmed 144 new deaths and 2,110 new cases of COVID-19 countywide, with 26,403 total cases in the Santa Clarita Valley.
On Friday, the CDPH released updates to the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy reopening framework focused on activities that can be conducted outdoors.
Valencia-based Lundgren Management was honored to be selected by the El Camino Community College District as one of three firms providing on-going construction management services for the next five years.
Shortly after, they were selected for the first two project task orders at the college where they will serve as the CM for the new Arts Complex and the new Behavioral and Social Sciences Building.
Construction is now underway for the new Arts Complex and the Behavioral & Social Sciences Building, which share the space previously occupied by El Camino College’s recently demolished Student Services Building. The building sites are separated by a pathway. Both new buildings will be constructed simultaneously with two project managers overseeing one general contractor, ACC Contractors, Inc., for the combined bid. There are also two separate architects for the project, Anderson Brule Architects and LPA Design Studios, respectively.
Santa Clarita LLC, which owns the undeveloped 900-plus-acre Whittaker-Bermite site, recently filed for voluntary bankruptcy, and is working to sell it to a global industrial real estate company for possible commercial and residential development, officials said Wednesday.
In November, Santa Clarita LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing assets of up to $1 billion and debts ranging from $100 million to $500 million, a move that was designed to sell the property to Prologis Inc. and help Santa Clarita LLC pay its creditors, according to Christopher Bayley, an attorney representing the company.
“What would end up happening is that … when the (offer) closes, the money would then, from the sale, go to Santa Clarita LLC and it would be able to pay all of its creditors in full and pay everybody off that has allowed claims under the bankruptcy code,” said Bayley.
Ken Farley, W. M. Keck Foundation professor of Geochemistry, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences and the project scientist for the Mars 2020 mission, continues the 2020–2021 Watson Lecture season with a talk about, “Perseverance on Mars,” Wednesday, March 10, at 5:00 p.m., via Zoom.
After eight years of development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. In this Watson Lecture, Farley will describe how this highly capable rover will investigate rocks deposited billions of years ago at the bottom of a large lake (long since disappeared), seeking evidence of possible Martian life at that time. He will also look at how the rocks carefully collected by Perseverance during these explorations will provide the cargo for the first-ever effort to bring samples back to Earth from another planet.