Covina : Mall Developer Wins Delay

The City Council has given the developer of Covina Town Square Shopping Center, Alexander Haagen Development Co., until next June to file the final tract map of the project.

The slightly modified map the City Council approved Monday divides the 36-acre property on North Azusa Avenue into 14 lots. When the project is completed in about a year and a half, 13 main buildings housing either retail shops or department stores will stand on individual lots, and a 14th lot would include common areas and an existing Sears store.

The subdivision of the property is important to simplify financing of the development and the sale or lease of separate portions of the complex, Planner Hal Ledford said. He added that the city encouraged the project partly because of fears that Sears might move, if improvements were not made.

A tentative map with the site divided into eight instead of 14 lots was approved by the council in 1987, but that approval was good for only two years. The developers have until June, 1990, to file a final map with the county, Assistant Planner Shelby Williams said.