A Matter of Size
By Culver City standards, all of the commercial data in the project is outsized, involving an unusually large number of store and land owners. Satisfying such a diverse audience may be the stiffest challenge of Mr. Champions career. Will his company have the patience to persevere through the years this project will take? How much time will pass before City Hall is tempted to invoke its power of eminent domain when owners balk at Mr. Champions buy-out price? What about the present entrepreneurs? Will they still be here when the slow-paced project starts to emerge? Two years already have passed since Mr. Champion presented his strongly appealing idea to City Hall. He is about to be given two more years to dicker with some stubborn and some compliant entrepreneurs. If owners choose to go to court, emulating other businesses that have been in the path of redevelopment, how long may such cases further delay the project?
