HUNTINGTON BEACH : Koll Co. Opens a Branch Office in City
The Koll Co., which plans to build up to 4,884 housing units on land surrounding the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, has announced the opening of a branch office here.
The Koll Co.’s main office is in Newport Beach. The company’s new Huntington Beach branch office will be in the SeaCliff Village Shopping Center at Main Street and Yorktown Avenue, near City Hall.
“By moving to Huntington Beach, we can work more effectively with the community to bring the Bolsa Chica coalition concept plan to a reality,” said Lucy Dunn, Koll senior vice president. “The very nature of the Bolsa Chica Planning Coalition is one of partnership, so it’s appropriate that the Koll Co. operate here in partnership with Huntington Beach to implement the plan.”
The coalition plan is the 1989 compromise hammered out by federal, state and local governments, the Bolsa Chica landowners and the environmental group Amigos de Bolsa Chica. That plan provides for preserving most of the Bolsa Chica wetlands in exchange for allowing home construction on the undeveloped mesa area around the wetlands.
The Koll plan envisions giving 775 acres of private land to the public at no cost. That donated land would then be restored to functional wetlands and added to the state’s 300-acre ecological reserve at Bolsa Chica.
The proposed housing would be built on 405 acres of undeveloped land that rings the wetland areas.
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