[CPEO-BIF] Douglas Park, Long Beach, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Work On Commercial Area Of Douglas Park Underway

By Kurt Helin
Gazette Newspaper (Long Beach, CA)
December 14, 2006

Crews are working on Lakewood Boulevard near the Long Beach Airport and 
behind the fence on part of Boeing’s property as Douglas Park gets underway.

Already 27 acres of future office space is in escrow to a developer and 
crews are hard at work to put in the infrastructure, said Stephane 
Wandel, the project manager for Douglas Park.

Douglas Park is a mixed-use development planned for the 261-acre former 
Boeing property west of Lakewood Boulevard next to the Long Beach 
Airport. Already approved plans for the property call for 3.3 million 
square feet of commercial space, primarily office and light industrial, 
a hotel and 200,000 square feet of retail space. There also will be 11 
acres of parks and the residential component.

...

Then in May, Boeing officials said in a statement that all the housing 
would be town homes and condominiums. According to those officials 
changes were made because of concerns about contamination of the soil — 
the standards for how clean the soil must be under a single-family home 
are stricter than those for town homes and condominiums. The site had 
been a McDonell-Douglas manufacturing area and there is soil 
contamination that must be dealt with, according to the environmental work.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.gazettes.com/douglaspark12142006.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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