[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Navy Broadway Project [San Diego, CA] Challenged In Federal Court"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Broadway Project Challenged In Federal Court

By Alison St. John
KPBS Radio News (San Diego, CA)
September 10, 2012

A community group that wants to see more public space on San Diego's  
waterfront will appear in federal court Monday to challenge a major  
development on the downtown waterfront. The Navy Broadway project  
includes a new Navy headquarters for the Pacific Fleet.

It's a David and Goliath story. Three non-profit groups will file  
briefs in federal court in San Diego this morning in hopes of  
significantly modifying a major development for the downtown waterfront.

The Navy, which was given the land back in the 1920s, has hoped to  
build its new headquarters near the foot of Broadway since the 1980s.  
It selected San Diego developer Doug Manchester in 2006 to build it  
for them and develop the rest of the bay front site. But the economic  
downturn has made financing for the project hard to come by, and  
potential investors are discouraged by the on-going legal challenges.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/sep/10/navy-broadway-project-challenged- 
federal-court/

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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