In its Cold War heyday, the Boeing Fitness Center in West Hills represented the pinnacle of corporate largess. Just south of the Chatsworth Reservoir, the 8500 Fallbrook Ave. property was purchased in 1959 by the aerospace giant and developed as a private club where workers could bring their families and temporarily escape the pressures of the space race. The 14-acre employee playground featured three swimming pools, multiple tennis, volleyball and basketball courts and an auditorium with room for more than 100 couples to swirl across its dance floor. But by the time it closed in October 2010, the gated property had become the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Fitness Center – a place more likely to host union retiree meetings and senior exercise classes than swanky parties. And more recently, the abandoned property doubled as the forlorn remains of a post-apocalyptic Tucson in the Fox Broadcasting Co.’s TV show, “The Last Man on Earth.” Sometime later this year, however, another transformation will take place on the site, as construction begins on 90 single-family homes called The Oaks at West Hills. California Home Builders, a division of Evenhaim Industries Corp. in Canoga Park, purchased the property from Boeing North American Fitness Inc. of Seal Beach in May 2013 for an undisclosed price and won city approval in April for the development. “This is probably the largest (single-family residential) project that’s going to be developed in the West Valley in the next few years,” said Shawn Evenhaim, founder and chief executive of the development company. Read the full story in the June 15 issue of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal.