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AVEK receives increase in state water project supplies

PALMDALE – Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency (AVEK) was notified by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) on Jan. 20 that their 2022 State Water Project (SWP) Table A Allocation would increase from 0% to 15%, the agency announced Wednesday.

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Welcome to Palmdale

Despite the pandemic, the City of Palmdale welcomed 481 new businesses to the community. These businesses helped create job opportunities and expand the local tax base.

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Warehouse OK’d on Palmdale lot

PALMDALE — Plans for a proposed 1.05-million-square-foot warehouse at the southeast corner of Columbia Way (Avenue M) and 10th Street West were approved, during a site plan review hearing, on Thursday.

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Lancaster buys land for housing development

LANCASTER — The Lancaster Housing Authority approved the purchase of property at Avenue K-8 and Gadsden Avenue for the future Parkway Village, a high-density mixed-use housing neighborhood.

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Palmdale named “Most Business Friendly City”

PALMDALE – The city of Palmdale was named the Most Business Friendly City with a population greater than 60,000 at the 26th annual Eddy Awards hosted by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles this week.

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LaTerra Development Acquires 20-acre Site in West Palmdale; Will Build 344 Apartments in Job Rich Area

LaTerra Development, a Los Angeles-based developer of urban infill mixed-use properties, has acquired a fully-entitled 20-acre site in west Palmdale, CA, and will develop 344 market-rate apartments, the first new apartment development in the job rich area in 31 years. The Landing, as the LaTerra project is called, is located at the northwest corner of Rancho Vista Boulevard and 15th Street West directly across from the Antelope Valley Mall, a 1.5-million-square-foot enclosed regional shopping center.

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2020 Census vs. 2010 Census Los Angeles County

The population of the Antelope Valley (centered in the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale) grew 10 percent, adding 25,922 residents, with most of the growth in the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale.

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Hospital expansion on horizon

LANCASTER — Construction plans are moving forward for an estimated $16 million expansion of the Antelope Valley Hospital’s emergency department.

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Lancaster digs in for Marriott

LANCASTER — The City joined InSite Development and Midas Hospitality Thursday morning to celebrate the official groundbreaking of The BLVD Marriott Residence Inn, a 107-room, 78,500-square-foot hotel in the heart of downtown.

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