✆ “I’d like to see the project that Macerich is putting out. I’d like to see it not done down by the beach at the Santa Monica Place Mall, but instead, put it on Cloverfield where Ocean Park Community Center is supposed to be doing a homeless center. Put the homeless center where the Santa Monica Place Mall is, and bring the open space, the affordable housing, the park space, the retail and all of the good economic shot in the arm that that project would bring — bring it to a neighborhood that needs it. They’ll still be able to see the beach from there. Those towers are 21-stories high. OPCC would still be closer to their constituency downtown. Pico neighborhood benefits. Everybody wins... tell them to do it somewhere else, or else just don’t do it in Santa Monica.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 4, 2004. Read the original PDF.