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Lowe's will Ethan Allen Joined by Great
Anchor New 1 Retailers in New Home

Restaurant and ; Furnishings Center
Retail Center Ethan Allen, one of the nation's home furnishing destination that
leading home furnishing retailers, brings a number of nationally
Do-it-yourselfers and contractors brought its quality offerings and dis- recognized retailers along with
alike will soon have a new source for tinctive styles to Valencia in 2001. some local merchants to the Town
all the things needed to do their jobs The arrival of the 13,000-
right. Whether it's caulk, cleaning chemicals, or a kitchen sink, square-foot showroom not
Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse will have it. only answered the requests
Long a well-known retailer in the Midwest and South, of many area residents who
Lowe's began a westward expansion three years ago, pushing have long traveled to outly-
into Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Southern California. The ing valleys to patronize the
company is expected to open its Valencia store in early 2002. furniture store, it also paved
It will feature 135,000 square feet of space - room enough for the way for an upscale home
just about everything the professional builder or weekend furnishing center now under
handyman might need. development on Citrus Drive
All that hard work can make any Mr. Fix-it hungry, and he adjacent to the Valencia
won't have far to go to fill up. A new Panda Express is open Town Center.
for business. Already a familiar sight in the Valencia Town "We're very excited Ethan Allen offers fine furniture ensembles
Center and Granary Square, the Chinese food outlet now about the positive response displayed in home-like settings where customers
offers its signature Orange Chicken to the residents of north we have received from the can consult with in-house decorators.
Valencia and Saugus. community," said store own-
Another Santa Clarita Valley ers and 27-year Ethan Allen veter- Center area. The Home Centre is
favorite is In-N-Out, and they too ans, Jeff and May Lee Halpern. one of a number of recent projects
Attention Double will open a store at the Bouquet- The store is designed to easily help by developer Ron Rasak. It will
Double Lovers: Newhall Ranch intersection. customers visualize how individual include Citrus Home Furniture;
In & Out Coming Double-Double lovers will have a pieces can work together in their Norwalk Furniture, a popular
bit of a wait, however. The new homes or offices. Wood pieces, furnishing boutique embarking on a
to Valencia
location is not expected to break upholstery and accents are westward expansion; and Leather
ground until sometime in late displayed in both classic and casual King. Also moving in is the locally
2002, as the burger company is busy building new stores in room settings. Additionally, the known Coming Home Fabrics,
several other locations. design center allows customers to expanding to larger quarters, and
If tires are on your shopping list, you can get those taken meet with one of the store's 12 Mattress Discounters, the nation's
care of at another outlet opening nearby. Construction of an design consultants. largest mattress retailer. The center
America's Tire store is expected to get underway shortly, with Located adjacent to Ethan Allen should begin welcoming tenants in
the location being open for business in the spring of 2002. is The Home Centre, a new the first quarter of 2002.

Historical Society Receives
Newhall Land Gift

A recent $10,000 donation from Newhall Land to the Santa
Clarita Valley Historical Society gave a major boost to renovation
efforts of a famous local home.
The money was used to complete exterior work on the Newhall
Ranch House, which made the historic structure weather-proof in time
for winter. "There was a lot of trim on the outside that was not
completed," said Sue Yurosek, the Society's restoration chairman. But thanks to the infusion of funds, the society was able to install
the remaining exterior trim and paint it, as well as complete other work.
"The house is watertight and now we can begin on the inside," Yurosek said. Repairs will be made to the flooring and plaster
walls. Decorative work like furnishing, painting and wall-papering will follow, bringing the house back to its original condition.
The two-story gabled Victorian home began as a shed-like structure built above a brick cellar on land purchased by Henry Mayo
Newhall. That land was later known as the Newhall Ranch. The original structure became the kitchen as the house was remodeled
over the years.
Newhall's son Gregory is believed to have ordered the addition of the main front portion of the house in 1893. After he died
in 1903, a younger brother, Walter Scott Newhall, was a frequent visitor until his death in 1906. The house was then used as the
ranch foreman's residence. It was moved to its present location at the Historical Society's Heritage Junction Park in 1990.
While there is still much work to be done, Yurosek said the donation expedited the process. "Without the donation it would have
taken us a good five or six or even 10 years to get to this point," she said.

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