[CPEO-IRF] Broadway Complex (San Diego, CA) challenges

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clock is ticking for redevelopment of downtown's Navy Broadway Complex

By ROBIN MAYDECK
San Diego Daily Transcript (CA)
August 31, 2006

The redevelopment of downtown's Navy Broadway Complex may have received 
more legally binding validations than any major revitalization project 
in recent Centre City Development Corp. history.

Yet the $1.3 billion, 2.948 million-gross-square-foot super project 
planned by the public-private partnership of the U.S. Navy and 
Manchester Financial Group has become the 2006 poster child of a project 
under fire.

Although the Navy/Manchester planning team must adhere to project 
parameters set by an oft-validated Development Agreement entered into by 
the federal government and city in 1992, and subsequently made law of 
the land by the U.S. Congress, an army of critics has weighed in on the 
proposal for everything from its size, scale and the design of the tops 
of its buildings, to its right to be.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20060831cra
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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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