El Camino College Won’t OK Shopping Center Plan
A proposal to turn an El Camino College parking lot into a shopping center has been set aside indefinitely by college trustees.
Trustees voted 4-0 not to proceed with any of three development proposals presented to them last month. Proposals had called for building a shopping center on the 1,100-space lot at Crenshaw and Redondo Beach boulevards and using profits from the development to build 2,000 spaces in structures elsewhere.
“It may be premature for the district to make a long-term commitment for the use of that property other than for education or other district purposes,” said Donald Sorsabal, school vice president. Administrators began studying the idea in July after a builder said developing the lot would turn a profit.
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