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Gardens Of The World
Thousand Oaks Theme Park

Gardens of the World. Charming and unusual gift from the Hogan Family Foundation, is located across from the Thousand Oaks City Hall and Civic Arts Plaza. This 4.5 acre park includes Japanese, French and California mission gardens, a bandstand where local groups can perform, a grassy amphitheater for concerts and picnics, and a quarter-mile fitness trail.
The Hogan Family Foundation hopes that along with providing the community with a unique and entertaining facility it will also promote the travel industry and foreign cultures.

View below from Gardens of the World to the Thousand Oaks City Hall and Civic Art Plaza across the street.


Pavillion bandstand reminiscent of small town, turn-of-the-century America.


Replica, honoring Spanish missions throughout California history.


Serene interior of mission building with wall murals depicting historical missions.



Long Awaited 'Town Center' to Rise
on T.O. Civic Center Corner

By Jessica Keating, jkeating@insidevc.com
August 2, 2003

A long-awaited and hotly debated complex with shops and restaurants could begin taking shape on the dirt lot next to the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza as early as this fall.

Caruso Affiliated Holdings, the Santa Monica development firm behind the project, hopes to break ground in November.

Company spokesman Rick Lemmo said the project promises to improve upon Caruso's popular "town center" development style.

"If you look at other Caruso projects, this will have an even higher level of park amenities," Lemmo said. "It is truly going to create a center of the town."

Caruso, among others, built the Promenade at Westlake and the Commons at Calabasas.

The 48,000-square-foot Thousand Oaks complex, set to open Nov. 15, 2004, on the east side of City Hall, will include a plaza, informal performance stage or amphitheater, clock tower, lake and an ice-skating rink. As approved by the Thousand Oaks City Council in July 2002, a movie theater and parking garage
could be built later.

Councilman Dennis Gillette said he's anxious to see the finished water features, which are expected to draw residents to the center.

"That, to me, will be the crown jewel of the project," Gillette said, remembering the popularity of the ice-skating rink that was temporarily installed by the Alliance for
the Arts, the fund-raising arm of the civic arts plaza, during the 1998 winter holidays.

Creating a gathering place for Thousand Oaks residents has been a long-standing goal for the council. Three years ago, leaders turned to Caruso to help create the town center they feel the city lacks.

Retired Air Force One Cleared to Land at
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Libary



(Simi Valley, Calif.) The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation announced today that Air Force One (72-27000)
will be on permanent display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA. The aircraft, a Boeing 707, was used exclusively by Ronald Reagan during his eight years as the President of the United States. Other presidents who used the aircraft were Presidents Carter, Ford, Nixon, George W. Bush, Clinton and George H. W. Bush.

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