Areas of the Montrose Shopping Park will be giving up their brown hardscape for softer green now that water conservation regulations have been relaxed.
By Mary O’KEEFE
Two Glendale City Councilmembers were at the Montrose Shopping Park Assn. meeting on Thursday. Councilmember Vartan Gharpetian and Zareh Sinanyan attended the meeting to listen and discuss issues of concern to the merchants in the shopping park.
“We talked about the closing of Citibank,” said Steve Pierce, Market Place manager.
The Citibank at 2350 Honolulu Ave. will be closing its doors in June. The bank has a history of strongly supporting the community, allowing organizations the use of its community room. The discussion at MSPA was what to do with the location that will be vacant.
What merchants would like to see is more retail shops or perhaps even a theater in the shopping park. The Councilmembers said the city would work with the association to support its goals.
Another point of discussion was adding grass in Montrose. During the recent drought, regulations were handed down requiring cities to follow specific planting guidelines, which resulted in many areas of the shopping park going brown with the addition of decomposed granite and wood chips. The MSPA has been requesting that grass be brought back to those areas and it appears that will be happening. Grass will be planted at the far east end of Honolulu Avenue near Rocky Cola, the area near the 2300 block of Honolulu Avenue near Paradis and the far west entrance to the Montrose Shopping Park.
There was also a discussion of Montrose Vision 20/20, the plan to update areas of the MSP. The city will begin work on bump-outs at the crosswalks at Broadview and Ocean View at the end of June with a completion date scheduled for September.
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