COLLEGE BOARD VOTES TO FORCE SALE OF WILSHIRE SITE.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer The Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. board voted unanimously Wednesday Wednesday: see week. to use eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in to purchase its headquarters at 770 Wilshire Blvd., which it now rents for about $1 million a year. The district had offered to pay the owners, 300 Prospect Properties, $17.5 million for the structure using Proposition AA bond money, but the owners issued a counteroffer In contract law, a proposal made in response to an original offer modifying its terms, but which has the legal effect of rejecting it. A counteroffer normally terminates the original offer, but the original offer remains open for acceptance if the counteroffer expressly May 20 for $20 million. ``We think we have pretty strong evidence of what the value is, and what we think is in the public's best interest to pursue,'' said Larry Eisenberg, executive director for facilities planning and development. Ron Nelson Ron Nelson is a composer of both classical and popular music and a retired music academic. He was born in Joliet, Illinois, on December 14, 1929. After earning bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New , a San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden attorney with Nixon and Peabody representing 300 Prospect Properties, declined to comment on the board's action. Eisenberg said it's possible both parties could still come to an agreement without trying to force a sale through eminent domain. In 1990, the LACCD LACCD Los Angeles Community College District bought a building at 4050 Wilshire for $12.5 million, with plans to renovate it and make it the district headquarters. But state funding cutbacks at that time left the district without the $10 million it needed for renovations, so the district entered into a lease on 770 Wilshire in 1993. The building at 4050 Wilshire sat vacant for years until the district was able to sell it in 2001 for a little more than $6 million, said Camille Goulet, general counsel for the district. The board has allocated a total of $25 million for the purchase and renovation of the building. Propositions A and AA are the two bond issues totaling $2 billion that voters passed in April 2001 and May 2003 to replace aging buildings on the district's nine campuses. At the time Proposition AA was placed on the ballot, board officials said they intended to use some of the money to stop renting facilities, including the headquarters. Lisa M. Sodders, (818) 713-3663 lisa.sodders(at)dailynews.com |
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