SAN PEDRO : City Ends Lease With Baseball Field Backer
A nonprofit corporation hoping to build five state-of-the-art baseball fields in San Pedro apparently struck out this week.
Los Angeles officials moved Tuesday to terminate the city’s lease with San Pedro Baseball, which has leased a 15-acre site in San Pedro for $1 a year since 1989.
The company had been trying to raise more than $1 million to build five baseball fields for youths on a city-owned site in the 1900 block of North Gaffey Street. According to its most recent report to the city, about $400,000 had been raised. But the company was $25,000 in debt. The land appears unchanged.
Officials of the organization told the city last year that it had been anticipating a $5.2-million donation from an international trust company based in San Diego, but that money never materialized.
Gary Miley, the company’s president, declined to comment until after receiving official notification of the lease’s termination from the city.
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