A Community or a Commodity?
Re “Hearing Set on Federal Aid for Hotel Project,” Dec. 31:
The city of Huntington Beach, having mortgaged all of its assets to prop up 10 years of redevelopment, now eyes $6 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development money so it can further subsidize the Waterfront Hilton hotel.
Having observed an empty and embarrassing decade of downtown redevelopment disasters, I will not be surprised to see them continue an abstract renewal scheme, which produces unwanted office space, overpriced retail space, unfriendly public space, not enough parking space, and all requiring continued subsidies.
I will be surprised if the city is ever able to turn the commodity into a community.
DEBBIE COOK
Huntington Beach
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