[CPEO-BIF] Carson, California landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

With little NFL hope left, Carson looks to commercial prospects for its stadium site

by Richard Winton
Los Angeles Times (CA)
January 14, 2016

After losing out to Inglewood in their bid to get an NFL team, Carson officials expressed confidence Wednesday that leading developers would still be drawn to the vast empty acreage on top of an old landfill they hoped would host a stadium.

The 157-acre space abutting the 405 Freeway has been touted as ideal for such things as hotels, sports stadiums and shopping malls for decades. Many of those efforts stalled because of the multimillion-dollar price tag of cleaning up toxic waste that is a legacy of the site's past life as the Cal Compact landfill.

But Mayor Albert Robles said with the state having already approved that cleanup and the city finally owning the site, developers are knocking at the city's door.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-carson-site-20160114-story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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