Wrecking ball to hit 4th Ave. strip center
Soon the strip center at 1660 S. 4th Ave. — the former home of Pets Plus and some other businesses — will be history.
The city has received an application for a permit to demolish the building, reported Alan Kircher, city of Yuma deputy building official.
All the former tenants have either moved to new locations or closed, and the building is vacant.
The building was purchased by the city for future improvements to the 4th Avenue-16th Street intersection.
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Sean Brooks has started a new business that takes care of their pets' "business" for Yuma-area dog owners. Doody Free Yuma is a professional pet waste removal service for residents as well as such places as apartment complexes, kennels, pet groomers, homeowner associations and parks.
Brooks offers laboratory feces analysis free of charge with a 12-month contract to help his customers maintain their pets' health.
The waste is processed and recycled to help the environment.
For more information, visit www.doodyfreeyuma.com. Brooks can be reached at 446-1344 or doodyfreeyuma@yahoo.com.
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Yuma's Texas Roadhouse, 594 E. 16th St., will be participating with other Texas Roadhouse restaurants in Arizona in a fundraiser to benefit the families of Officer Chris Marano and Lt. Eric Shuhandler. Officer Marano of the Arizona Highway Patrol and Lt. Shuhandler of the Gilbert Police Department were both killed in the line of duty.
Monday evening, the restaurants will donate 10 percent of all dinner proceeds served from 3 to 10 p.m. to a fund for the officers’ families.
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The Subway restaurant at Yuma Mesa Shopping Center will be open by Monday — if not sooner, according to an area manager who is in Yuma to get the business ready for hungry customers.
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The Chevron Convenience Store at 32nd Street and Avenue B is now open for business after completion of an expansion project that doubled the size of the store, reported John Bornt, Shay Oil manager.
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Senior loan officer Derek Egeberg has been hired as the manager of the branch of Academy Mortgage that is opening in Yuma. He has been joined by fellow senior loan officers Ray Ochoa and Tammy Roberts.
While waiting for completion of a physical office in Yuma, the three are operating under the Mesa branch of the mortgage company to serve Yuma-area clients, meeting with them in their home or office.
They can be reached at 247-9089, or Egeberg at 246-0422, Ochoa at 246-5937 and Roberts at 446-0886.
Egeberg said Academy Mortgage can offer in-house processing, underwriting, documents and funding in the residential market, with a significantly reduced closing time as a result.
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Lococo Pilkington Construction (LPC) has been applying some of its contracting skills to a new office for itself at 439 S. 1st Ave. With some improvements like painting about completed, the contractor hopes to start moving in the furniture by the end of the month.
The move will position the company closer to Yuma City Hall and give it room to grow, said Jerry Lococo, who owns the contracting business with Drew Pilkington.
At one time, the building housed a barbershop. Most recently it was an art studio.
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Construction has begun on the rebuilding and remodeling of the community center at SunQuest Village of Yuma, 265 E. 24th St., a senior assisted living community.
The main structure was heavily damaged in a flood caused by a broken fire main in November. Damage was limited to the community center building and the apartments did not sustain any damage, said Bill Bowdich, marketing director. A grand reopening will be held in the near future.
SunQuest Village was established in 1983 and purchased by FiveStar Living Centers in 2000.
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Old Town Massage Center is now located in the Gandolfo Building at 202 S. 1st Ave., Suite 107. Massages are offered Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
For more information or an appointment, call Scotty Dunaway at 329-7300.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Story corrected Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. The correct address for the strip mall to be demolished is 1660 S. 4th Ave.
