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The August 26, 2010 and Next to the Last issue of San Pedro- Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Next-to-the-last Newsletter - Why I’m Leaving San Pedro and How This List Works

* Councilwoman Hahn Asks Me to Marry Her - Hahn’s Lost Bid for Lt. Gov. Really Hurt San Pedro

* Inside Warehouses 9 and 10 Video - Bergamot Station - POLA as It's Own In-house Master Developer-

* Will Knatz Battle for Iowa Battleship? What about the Annenberg Grant for City Dock One?

* Part 4 - Why it’s So Hard to Invest in San Pedro -The Failure of the CRA - Bankruptcy of the Vue -
Permanent Aesthetic Attractions vs. Redundant, One-Day Events - San Pedro's Low-Rider Culture

* Two New Hi-Tech Ventures from Jayme Wilson - Meeting Online for Tech Angel Funding

* PCAC Struggles for Relevancy and Ken Melendez Violates Brown Act Rules for the Angels Gate Funding
The New "Non-Profit" Port Community Mitigation Trust Fund

* Proposed New Branding/Promo Tool for Downtown San Pedro

The June 4, 2010 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* A New Way Forward - The Port Center -
A Proposed Shopping Center Concept at Warehouse 9 and 10

* Part 3 - Why it So Hard to Invest in San Pedro - The Downtown Clique - The Invisible Barrier and "Seam"
Demographics - San Pedro Not for Sissies - Brown-nose and Extreme publications.
Battleship Iowa Plea to The Port - Luxury Cruise Ships Leaves San Pedro for Good - Ouch!!

* CRA Props Up San Pedro Real Estate Prices With it's Latest Mistake

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* My Brainstorm Idea for Cleaning Up the Gulf Oil Spill - Straw

* $250,000 More for the Port's Whatchacallit -Hard Questions To But Limp Answers From PTLA Director -
Three New Incubator Models - More Seniors Starting Up Businesses

* Why I Hired William Shatner - An Important Entrepreneurial Lesson

* The Proposed Ghost Fish Sculpture, A Beautiful but Ironic Reminder
of a Looming Eco-Tragedy - A New TED.com Video "How We Wrecked The Ocean"

* Key Leadership Problems for SCMI Move - Leadership & Urgency
The Knatz “Get Off Your Butts” Letter to SCMI Academicians

* Relevant Redevelopment - The Relevant Stage

* New Idea for the “Yawn Lawn” Park at 22nd Street

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The April 1, 2010 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* NEWS FLASH - Long Beach Dumps the Queen Mary and Gives it to San Pedro

* Part 2 - Why it is So Hard to Invest in San Pedro - it’s a NON-Profit Town in Deep Denial  * Economic Future Shock - IF Warner Grand Goes Dark - Rubber-Tire Trolley Tries to Trick Cruise Passengers - The CRA's Lack of Creativity - The Key POLA and Gambol Issue

* The Hope on the Horizon - New Batch of POLA Real Estate Development Consultants - Warehouses 9 &10 are Key to POLA Waterfront Retail Success

* My Interview with Chuck Wolfe - the PTDC Feasibility Study Consultant - The VentureOven & New Kinds of Incubators

* Nexus Study Beast Tries to Rise Again - to Kill Gaffey Street Pool

* SP Chamber of Commerce Sues Red Car Line - an Historic Legal Brief

* Tiger Woods ReHab Therapist - Exclusive Photo

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The January 31, 2010 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

*SPECIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE

* Why It Is So Tough to Invest in San Pedro - Remembering Ralph Hicks - Welcome to Half-Measureville

* POLA Covers Some PTDC Expenses and Future Losses with a Long Beach Community College SBDC grant of $175,000.

* Reality vs Rhetoric - The Story Behind My San Pedro Today
Magazine Column Being Canceled - The Unreasonable Incubator and the Unreasonable Man

* Geraldine Knatz’s Blurred Vision for Economic Development -
The Missing URGENCY Factor - Our Big New Yawn Lawn or Ho-hum Park at 22nd Street

* China Leads Race to Clean Technology

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The January 10, 2010 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* ECONOMIC WAR WITH CHINA-
Authoritarian Capitalism vs. Democratic Capitalism -The Crash of 2010 - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

* The Knatz NOAA Presentation at the Aquarium of The Pacific - The POLA Attempt to Get the NOAA Pacific Fleet

* ONE on ONE with CINDY MISCIKOWSKI (the new Harbor Commissioner President)
and a WORLD CRUISE CENTER UPDATE

* AESTHETIC MITIGATION FUND HIJACKING ATTEMPT FOILED BY POLA STAFF -
A Letter To JAMES ALLEN

* TWO HUGE NEW POLA CONCEPTS - The Battleship IOWA PROPOSAL and the ONE PORT aka “Terminal Killer”

* "END of The Line" Documentary Film About the Devistating Effects of Overfishing - Event in Long Beach

* Dr. Appy Takes Early Retirement

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The Mega-Terminal / ONE PORT concept page - http://www.venturexpo.com/oneport.html - Posted 1.4.2010

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The Battleship IOWA Proposal to the Port of Los Angeles - http://www.venturexpo.com/iowa.html - Posted 12.18.2009

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The November 8, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

SPECIAL INCUBATOR SERIES -

* A "Real" Incubator Could be a "Real" Game Changer - Introducing San Pedro Ocean Farms

* Incubator Primer - To Incubate or Not to Incubate: That is THE Question -

* Non-Profit vs. For Profit - Real Vs. Virtual Incubators -

* Consolidating Incubators into an International Franchise - The Great Ships Center

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The October 3, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Ports Chief Architect Takes The Lazy Way Out for Updating The World Cruise Terminal -
Another Idea from Yours Truly

* POLA's History May Doom it’s Future - The Dinosaur On Our Doorway

* 2nd Hardest Job in LA - A Knatz Job Profile.

* Critical Missing Pieces in San Pedro Waterfront Plan & Why A “Master Developer” for the Ports O Call May Be Just A Fantasy

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The August 16, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Rebranding San Pedro - Extreme Makeover for World Cruise Center? Maybe...

* Economic Future Shock - Why 150 "Transitional Towns" Are Happy About This Recession and 
Preparing for The End of Peak Oil - A Letter from Tom Dorsey - The San Pedro Depression

* Clueless Harbor Commissioners and "Stuffed Cotton" Could Derail SCMI Move  

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The July 27, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* The Stimulus Grant Efforts of the Port of Los Angeles

* Correction to Previous SCMI Release and Why SCMI could be a “Game Changer” for San Pedro -
Special POLA Presentation of the SCMI Visioning Study - Comparing the "SCMI Study" to the "Nexus Study"

* Mitigation Madness part 13 - Hijacking of the Aesthetic Mitigation Funds Part 2 -
Letter to James Allen - What YOU are NOT Going to Get from the Aesthetic Mitigation Funding -
Pat Nave, The Perfect PCAC Liaison

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The July 17, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* SPECIAL PREVIEW OF A POLA and SAN PEDRO "GAME CHANGER" -
THE SCMI "DRAFT" STUDY - HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED

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The July 13, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

ReBranding San Pedro in Global Depression - Part 4

Financial Future Shock - Part 8 - A 20% Unemployment Rate -
The Tipping Point - - Treason Against the Planet - American Psychographics &
The Changing Chinese Mindset - Mass Group Denial

The Other Shoe About the Drop..

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The May 17, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Mitigation Madness Part 12- SPECIAL WHISTLE BLOWER ISSUE
How the POLA Aesthetic Mitigation Funds are Being HIJACKED and Manipulated

* Jayme Wilson Stepping Down In PCAC

* Great Example of Entrepreneurial Fish Farming

* The "Story of Stuff" Video

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The April 28, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Financial Future Shock Part 7 - The Missing Public Outrage and The Pier 400 Mistake

* Rebranding San Pedro in a Global Depression - Part 3 -
Analyzing the Disney/POLA Cruise Deal - Getting Disney is Much different than Keeping Disney

* Financial Future Shock - Part 8 - A "New Normal" Economics Primer for the POLA

* The POLA Train-Planning Nazi - NO Mag-Lev for YOU!!

* Herb Zimmer’s Vision for “Future San Pedro”

* New "Sustainable Plan" Petition from Peter Warren

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The April 1, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* New Proposed Statue and Attraction for Port of Los Angeles

* Economic Future Shock - Part 6 - Upside in the Downturn - Exploring the “New Normal” and the 15 million New Port Customers Within 100 miles.

* Mitigation Madness 11 - Cronyism in the PCAC Aesthetic Mitigation Subcommittee

* Ponte Vista Farms?

* Disney Cruise Ship Coming to Port of Los Angeles 2011 - New Cruise Line "Study" Coming Soon

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The March 18,2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Mitigation Madness - Part 10 - Wilmington’s New Aesthetic Mitigation Proposals

* Demolition of Ports O Call Buildings - The “Master Developer” Paradox

* Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council’s New Grant Maker Role

* Perverse Pleasure in Pedro’s Parking Problems -

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The March 11, 2009 issue of San

Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Economic Future Shock - Part 5 -

* Got Shovel? Port Tech Incubator Gets Some Chicken Feed -
New Business Models Needed Everywhere - Licensing/Franchising 101

* Mired in Minutia, Mediocrity and Mistakes - CRA’s Failure in San Pedro

* POLA's Cozy Cubicles

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The February 15, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Re-Branding San Pedro In a Global Depression - Part 2 - Can BIG ART Cure POLA’s BIG UGLY?

* Economic Future Shock - Part 4 - Good Bye Mr. Hicks: Was He Thrown or Did He Jump From The POLA Bus?

* Testing New Ideas - San Diego Floats By Port of LA in the Cruise Ship Numbers

* Insights from the TED Conference - Long Beach Gets $6 Million for TED from Tidelands Trust - Bill Gates Brings Mosquitos to TED - Predicting Irrational Behavior

* Feedback About a Prior Post -

* SPECIAL NOTE * New RFP for $4.9 million in Wilmington Aesthetic Mitigation Funding - filing deadline March 1, 2009

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The January 26, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Re-Branding San Pedro In A Global Depression - Part 1

* Mitigation Madness 9 - PCAC “Working Group” Sends First Batch of 10 Proposals to State Lands Commission - Ocean Water Resource Center Project Denied (means $3.7 Million Back into Wilmington’s Aesthetic Mitigation Pot :-)

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The January 4th, 2009 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Economic Future Shock Part 3 - The Paradigm Shift - 3,000 Shopping Malls Closing -
The 1500 Mile Salad Era Coming to an End -

* The Most Interesting Harbor Area People for 2008

* YOU Must See This Port Video

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The December 11, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* New Solar Farm and Fish Hatchery in the Port of Los Angeles Could Bring
New Types of Hi-Tech Jobs for San Pedro and Wilmington Residents

* New Economic Mitigation Considerations for PCAC

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The December 4, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* Fast Tracking the Port Tech Incubator & New Job Creation in the POLA

* From Toy To Transportation - Part Two - a New Plan for the Red Car on Pacific Ave.

* Lipstick on a Pig - Part 5 - Keeping Downtown San Pedro Ugly &
the Paradoxes, Conundrums, Dichotomies and FEAR in
The CRA, POLA, LA City Planning Department and San Pedro Chamber of Commerce.

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The November 11, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* From Toy to Transportation: The Red Car Feasibility Study -
The CSULB MAGLEV Study - A Train that Flies and an Air Powered Car

* Is POLA Getting the Shaft? The Proposed Clearwater Tunnel
May Totally Negate the Clean Trucks Program.

* Book to Read: Hot, Flat and Crowded - by Thomas Friedman

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The October 26, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* “Economic Future Shock” - “Sustainability”- Yada, Yada, Yada and some VERY “Inconvenient Truths”.

* Solar Power Addendum to Grand Ships Aesthetic Mitigation Proposal

* Parochialism in PCAC Petty-Power Politics Promotes Partisan Puzzle - PCAC Overload and The List of San Pedro Aesthetic Mitigation Proposals with “Ranking” Suggestions - A correction to a prior post.

* Inland Ports With MAG-LEV gaining Importance to POLA - Mayor of Victorville and Congressman Dana Rohrabacher bring Inland Port alliance proposals to BOHC - Papadakis apologizes to Knatz.

* Grand Ships Expo Presentation at the next CRA Meeting - Nov. 5

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The October 13, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* Part Two - The New Baja Mexico Port - MAG-LEV Cargo Moving & the Twilight Zone of Port Economics

* Green Tech - Ocean Power from a Sea Dog

* Geraldine Knatz’s comments that the cruise ships themselves are becoming the “destination”.
Diving for coins at Cabrillo Beach?

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The September 28th, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* Mitigation Madness - Part 8 - PCAC Mission Creep as the New San Pedro Venture Capitalist

* My Lunch with T.Boone and The Pickens Plan

* The Proposed GREAT SHIPS CENTER at the Ports O' Call Village

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The September 11, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* A New $4 Billion Baja Mexico Port and the Unintended Consequences on the POLA and POLB.

* A New BIKE SAN PEDRO Plan and Comparing San Pedro to Portland

* FREE Solar Panels for 5,000 San Pedro Homes?

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The September 7, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* Is the POLA Going to Tear Down the Ports O' Call Village? Uh-Oh!

* A New "SUPER-BLOCK" Coming to San Pedro? Maybe.

* A Useful New Invention For The CRA, POLA and San Pedro Chamber of Commerce

* T. Boone Pickens is Coming to Town (to Buy Wilmington?)

* The San Pedro Community Plan Update - CRA recommendations to the Planning Dept - by Rafique Kahn

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The August 25, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* New Warner Grand Patio Rendering

* The First "Turning a Blind Eye" Award Goes to Camilla Townsend

* Reality Check: Where is the New Port-Tech "Cluster"/ Incubator?

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The August 7, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* Mitigation Madness Part 7 - Motionless PCAC Motions & Olympic Training in Wilmington for Beijing?

* The Origins (and Possible Demise) of PCAC with Insights from Donna Ethington

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This SPECIAL August 3, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* A New GRAND SHIPS EXPOSITION Proposal and the Next "WOW" Attraction Along the San Pedro Waterfront

* A Special Tall Ships Identification Chart

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The July 18, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* The Right Kind of Lipstick on "Our" Pig

* The Festival of Sail Needs YOU

* YouTube Videos of our New Bellagio Inspired Fountains

* A Steve Marconi Article About Pacifica Creek

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The July 14, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* A New Series - POLA's New Challenges - Becoming "Green" Before It's Too Late
& The Emerging Green-Tech Bubble - Part 1

* The Missing "WOW" Factor In POLA Plans & Mr. Hicks' Implementation Schedule

* The Smartest Thing I've Ever Heard Geraldine Knatz Say

* A "Two San Pedros" letter from Rob Patten

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The June 25, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* LipStick on A Pig - Part 4 -
The ACE District and the Fight for What Happens Next to Downtown San Pedro - a Notable Quote from Doug Epperhart

* Does James Preston Allen Have His Sticky Fingers in CRA Funding?

* Downtown San Pedro's New "Lofts Bubble"

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The June 21, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News includes :

* Update on Our Proposed Marine Science Research Center at City Dock 1 - Part 1 of an emerging series

* A Tom Politeo Article : Connecting The Dots to Clean the Air

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The June 14, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* San Pedro's Cruise Ship Expansion - Part 1 of a developing series

* A Peter Warren Article

* A CSPNC Position On The Cruise Ship Berths

* Excerpts from A State Tidelands Trust Analysis of The Public Trust Doctrine

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The June 9, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* Is Farming Fish in San Pedro a Good Concept for “Sustainable” Economic Redevelopment ?

* What is it Gonna Take - $10 a Gallon Gas Before San Pedro Really Changes for the Better?

* A Few Andrew Silber’s Ideas of What We “Could” be Doing Here in the Port of LA.

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The June 6, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* Mitigation Madness Part 6 - An Unsettling Settlement for Wilmington?

The Problems with the Wilmington Aesthetic Mitigation Funding - by Janet Gunter

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The June 4, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* AIRCRAFT CARRIER at the PORTS O’ CALL? A Definite Maybe!
and Meet Mr. Hicks - the Key to San Pedro’s New Economic Development Efforts.

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The May 27th, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* Both Mayor Villaraigosa and the Director of LA City Planning
(Gail Goldberg) Now Have My Plan for Old Downtown Wilmington

* CRA & LA City Planning Panel Discussion on "Community Revitalization"

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The May 23rd, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

*James Preston Allen, the Great Condescender of San Pedro

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The May 21, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* The ACE District Debacle, The Useless CRA/ACE Consultant

* How the CRA Created “Alcohollywood”

* The San Pedro Bay Port Technology Conference event - May 28th

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The May 13th, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers :

* It's Official - I Are a Righter Now Who Nose What He Doing :-)
(my first paid column and writing gig)

* The New Archival Page is ready

* Reminder - the 6th STREET CREEK Luncheon-Meeting & Update

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The May 8, 2008 issue of San Pedro - Wilmington Redevelopment News covers:

* Lipstick on a Pig - Part 3 - The Ports O’ Call "Enhancements" and Quest for a "Master Developer"

* Herding the Drunks in Downtown San Pedro

* Urgent ATTENTION Notice About the AmeriGas Tanks "FireBall" Problem from Jody James

* A 6th STREET CREEK Luncheon-Meeting & Update

* Call it Friend-O, is it Lipstick on a Pig (Part 2) or Genuine Mitigation Investment Opportunity?
And - Watch out for the POLA "Could Be's"

* My Recommendations to Dr. Appy for the Wilmington Avalon Corridor Project EIR

(The full Aesthetic Funding for Mariners Garden is available for download in PDF. Click here)

* Mayor Villariagosa says SELL City Property and the POLA is making Loans to the CRA to BUY. What's wrong with this? - POLA loans money via the CRA and remains the ultimate approver of the development loans set up by the CRA. Click here for more about a recent $25,000,000 POLA to CRA loan to BUY real estate now - when the Mayor’s Office says to SELL).

For more information on harbor area redevelopment, visit www.NewSanPedro.com and www.BanningVillage.com or contact rp@venturexpo.com or 310-418-1488.