College woes disappointing to local group

“I think the city did everything it could in order to facilitate [the move],” Councilman John Drayman, who also heads the agency, said Monday.

Executives for the college are currently negotiating with a potential buyer, who may carry on the institution in some form, but in the meantime, the school has closed enrollment while the remaining 200 students finish their courses, said Charles Tysinger, president of Glendale Career Schools, Inc., which owns the college.

He declined to identify the potential buyer, saying only that it was an educational company that would likely retain the college’s current administration in a buyout.

Tysinger declined to comment on the current status of negotiations, although Development Services Director Philip Lanzafame told the Redevelopment Agency that he and his staff had met with representatives for the buyer on Monday to discuss the current status of the Brand Boulevard project.

The Redevelopment Agency on Tuesday directed city attorneys to prepare a report that would finalize the revocation of the 2007 parking exception based on news of the school’s intentions. That means any new owner would have to undergo an all-new evaluation for a move into the same site should they want to do so, development officials said.

 JASON WELLS covers City Hall. He may be reached at (818) 637-3235 or by e-mail at jason.wells@latimes.com.