[CPEO-IRF] San Diego Broadway Complex

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S.D. mayor backs Navy waterfront remodeling

By Cheryl Clark
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE (CA)
February 19, 2006

Mayor Jerry Sanders said yesterday that he is backing the Navy's as yet
undisclosed plan to remodel its dreary Broadway waterfront complex into
high-rise offices, hotels and stores, saying the city's support ?is based
on trust.?

He is confident, he said, that the Navy plan ?will ultimately result in an
amazing front porch for our vibrant downtown,? unlike what it is today, a
drab stretch of buildings that visitors find oddly out of place in such a
scenic harbor.

Besides, Sanders said, to not back the plan would mean the 15-acre Broadway
complex ?could very well fall to the perils? of the government's
base-closure process. Sanders declined to give details, but officials with
city development agencies ? long involved in discussions about the Navy's
property ? were more specific.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060219-9999-1m19complex.html

-- 
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
http://www.cpeo.org


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