Local News In Brief : New Plan for Waterworks
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A former water treatment plant, once marked for demolition by the Beverly Hills City Council, may be rehabilitated--as a film library.
A consultant has concluded that the former La Cienega Water Treatment Plant, a 60-year-old, 12,000-square-foot reinforced concrete building, could be used several ways, including as office and retail space, a health club, a museum or a community center.
One potential tenant has already surfaced. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has said it is willing to spend as much as $4 million to rehabilitate the waterworks at La Cienega and Olympic boulevards to house its film library.
The academy’s proposal will come before the City Council on Tuesday. The council commissioned the study last spring after a Superior Court judge ruled in favor of a community preservation group’s lawsuit and said that the city would have to prepare an environmental impact report before proceeding with plans to tear down the Spanish Colonial-style building.
The plant had been used to treat well water, but was damaged in the 1971 earthquake and has not been used since 1976.
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