By Staff Writer

During the past several months, Monrovia City Staff has been working to landmark the city’s historic Santa Fe Depot facility located at Station Square. As part of that process, the historic preservation commission (HPC) considered the matter and voted to recommend that the facility be granted landmarked status at their meeting on March 23, 2016. This means that on April 19, 2016, the city council will consider designating the Monrovia Santa Fe Depot as Historic Landmark number 137.

In addition to landmarking the Historic Santa Fe Depot, the HPC has formed a subcommittee to interface with the development team (Daylight Limited) that was selected to rehabilitate and adaptively reuse the facility.

Daylight Limited team will be ready to submit a formal application to the entire HPC in May 2016 to consider approving a certificate of appropriateness for the proposed scope of the rehabilitation work at the Historic Santa Fe Depot. If that timeline holds, the city would expect that actual construction work rehabilitating the facility would begin in mid-to-late summer 2016. In addition, with the scope of work that needs to be done, assuming a construction start date in the summer of 2016 and barring any unforeseen circumstances, we anticipate that the rehabilitation work at the Historic Santa Fe Depot could be complete towards the end of calendar year 2016 or the early part of 2017.