

I’m not sure why this is, but for my version of the pizza rolls, I’m using all real ingredients. Jeno’s brand has been officially retired to the dead food bin.Īs I studied the ingredients for Totino’s Pizza Rolls I was surprised to discover that they do not contain real cheese. Pillsbury combined the two brands in the early 1990s, and today all pizza rolls are produced under the Totino’s name. 20 years later, in 1985, Jeno scored a $135 million payday when he sold his company to Pillsbury, the manufacturer of Totino’s-a competing pizza rolls brand that copied Jeno’s invention. The pizza rolls were so successful that Jeno sold his Chinese food company and dedicated himself to producing the world’s best frozen pizza and original pizza rolls. Jeno tested dozens of fillings, but it was the eggrolls filled with pizza toppings that got the most raves, so that became Jeno’s new product. Garrett said she would bring back a report to the council in early 2016.Luigino “Jeno” Paulucci had been manufacturing prepared Chinese food products for a couple of decades when he realized that eggrolls could be filled with pretty much anything. The agreement stipulates that the city must repay the county by 2018. The likely scenario, Garrett said, is that La Mesa will pay the county the fair market value for the site where the library was.

There is no funding that would cover the cost of a new library, and no current plan for a new library, Assistant City Manager Yvonne Garrett said.

Schmitz referred to an agreement between La Mesa and San Diego County from 2005 that stated that La Mesa would build a new library or pay the county for land where the branch once stood.

He said the library needs more space for computer stations, wifi networks, its used book sale room, and areas where library-hosted events like magic or musical performances. He said he is aware of newer, roomier libraries in other cities, including Vista, Imperial Beach and Ramona. While it replaced the smaller library, which Schmitz said was between 8,000 and 9,000 square feet, it is still not what he felt the city had promised. John Schmitz, president of La Mesa Friends of the Library, asked the council to consider a larger building for the current 10,000-square-foot library, which now sits next to the post office. The station is where the old Lamplighters Theater and the city’s former library once sat. The current police station, which opened in 2012, sits across from the library and post office on University. The consulting group has suggested a mixed-use/mixed-income development would go well on the 1.2-acre site of the former police station at Allison and Date. A two-level 180-car parking garage and a civic plaza or town square, a community room and a green space would complete the vision. That would make room for a 20,000-square-foot City Hall as well as a second building of similar size for use by another agency.Ĭity officials hope the other agency would be a source of revenue for the city. Possible plans being discussed include leveling the 19,000-square feet current City Hall and looking at another use for its adjacent parking lot.
