New BUILDING Developments...

Mesa Park Improvement Co., an Arizona syndicate, has invested in the 2650-acre Bermuda Dunes, new desert community in the Palrn Springs resort area. Building started with a plaza in the area on Adams street between 41st and. 42nd. avenucs; it will be divided into 25 building sites zoned for multiple housing, cluster housing and shops. Syndicate offrcers include Clifiord O. Boren of ,the Boren Construction Co., San Diego.

Los Angeles Board of E,ducation authorized plans for Phase Two of the City College's $10 million building replacernent program. The $4 million second phase of the program consists mainly of classrooms buildings, generally three stories high.

The old state capitol building in. Benicia has been restored at a cost of nearly $300,000.

County Supervisors approved preliminary plans for a $377,000 indust,rial road camp southwest of Fresno, to include accommoda,tions for 72A men prisone.rs in barra.cks buildings, mess hall and kitchen.

The Her,man Rempel Co. was awarded a $208,278 contract to build a munici,pal library in Azusa.

The Hollister, Calif., Redevelopment Agency approved a 23-acre slum clearance project area south of the city's two major canneries. Area involves 133 homes on 13 acres.

Fi,rst step has been taken to improve facilities at the San Ysidro bcrder crossing with award of a design contr'act to plan a project of more than $500,000, it is reported in San Diego. Improvements will include a new customs house.

William J. Moran Company started construction on a $72,000 addition to storage facilities of The Celotex Corp. at 1633 San Pablo St., Los Angeles. Project will be a structure containing 12 silos for storage of the granules used in production of asbestos roofing matqf ials.

Rideout Memorial hospital in Marysville, Calif., plans renovations and additions to existing facilities at an estima,ted $500,000.

Construction is underway on a $5 million state omce building at 12th and Jackson Sts. in Oakland to replace the agencies now at 2lst and Grove. The 8-story structure is slated for completion in mid-1959.

The Humboldt Board of Supervisors has applied for an $8,000 planning grant ol1 construction o'f additions to the Coun,ty Community hospital to cost estimated $325,000.

The first business, a service station, has been es,tablished at trooming Lake Berryessa and approved by Napa County Planning C,ommission. Wesley Plunkett and Farnum Kerr Associates have developed a master plan for the area and started extensive planting of trees.

McKeon Development Co. will build the St. Francis Height Shopping Center on the west side of Junipero Serra boulevard and Old San Pedro Road in Daly City. The 26-acre site will contain 50 stores. Main building will comprise 175,000.sq. ft. of construction and estimated cost, including land, is $25 million.

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox church of San Francisco will build a new cl.rurch and recreational center on 8f acres on Stanley Drive.

A. L. Branden, developer of l-akewood Village in Sunnyvale, Calif., will build 1,000 homes of $13,000,000 valuation in Sunnyvale, in a new addition to Lakewood Village on ei'ther side of Lawrence Station road north of Bayshore Freeway. Lockheed is spending over $40 million ,to expand its Polaris missile facilities at Sunnyvale.

The city of Stockton has retained Welton Beckett and Associates to develop an off-street parking prograrn and plans four structures of two and three stories.

State Department of Water Resources is studying possibilities of starting a multimillion-dollar flood control project this Summer on the lower San Joaquin river, it is reported in Merced. Project wou d include reclamation of 98,000 acres frorrl the mouth of trhe Merced upstream to the Friant Dam in Fresno county comprising 350 miles of lovees, 200 miles of flow channels, five major control structures, seven control bridges and four county road bridges, one each in Fresno and Merced counties and two in Madera county.

Atwater-Winton voters in Merced county voted for a new district hospital for the area.

The Tulare Coun,ty Housing Authority has authorized signing an agreement with the Public Housing Authority for const'ruction of a 24-unit project of permanent low-cost housing in the community of Cutler. James Foster of the Spalding Lumber Co. attended a hearing on the project and was reported in opposition to the low-cost housing project. Maximum amount of the project is about $318,000.

Bids will be received May 23 in the office of H. E. Hedger, chief flood control engineer, for plans and specifications for major construction of the Spinks Canyon debris basin and channel, approved

Lpril 17 by the Bradbury, Calif., Board of Supervisors. The projec't, which will conduct floodwaters from Bradbury and Maddock canyons to the Santa Fe storage and spreading basin, call for cons,truction of a debris basin, compacted earth-filled dam, spillway and outlet works, access road and fencing.

Fresno, Calif.-Target date f or the start of construc,tion of Lemoore Naval Air Station is June 1, Commander Dennis Culp, resident officer, announc,ed April 28. He said the Navy plans to move its carrier air groups at Alameda and Moftett Field to Lemoore. First stage of construction includes runways, a station road and administration buildings. The Navy hopes to take full possession of the 19,752 acres by June 15 and has an agre,ement with landowne,rs to permit them to harvest their 1958 crops. He said construction is on a tight schedule and if builders do not get underway by June 1 it will mean six months' delay and run into the next winter rains.

The Sequoia Union High Sohool District of San Mateo county, Calif., has received an $18,60O CFAdvance for planing a gymnasium addition to the East Palo Alto High school at $364,887 estimated cost to start construction late in 1958. Refer: Rex H. Turner. district superintendent; Project No. Calif. 4-P-3200.