Educational Complex Step Nearer Reality
The Los Angeles Board of Education has approved an environmental impact report and master plan for the Ft. MacArthur Educational Complex, an educational park in San Pedro that includes a marine animal study center.
Developed in part with $3 million from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, the publishing firm that bought Marineland a year before closing it in 1987, the marine center will include a variety of teaching and research laboratories, outdoor pools, a museum and herbarium, four lecture halls, a 250-seat theater and a library.
The center in the Upper Reservation of Ft. MacArthur will be operated by a consortium of officials representing the school district, local universities and the Cabrillo Marine Museum and will serve students in 4th through 12th grades as well as college.
Construction is scheduled to begin this year.
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