First of two parts.
Took 20 years, history tells us, plus 100,000 slaves, working for the minimum wage du jour, to build the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Sixteen years along, minus slave help, the Parcel B development, in front of The Culver Hotel in Downtown Culver City, remains unbuilt.
Untouched.
Imagined, but that is all.
In the accompanying photo, featuring the spectacular wide stairway, offices will occupy the glass-dominated upper floor at right while the balance of the design is expected to be various forms of retail.
Not that Parcel B is virgin territory.
Already there have been two groundbreakings.
When the groundbreakers put down their shovels and walked away, however, so did everyone else.
Stop if you have heard the following hymn before:
Parcel B will take a meaningful step toward creation at the next City Council meeting.
At Monday evening’s 7 o’clock City Council meeting, a second vehicle access into the Parcel B property, from south-bound Main Street into an underground parking garage, in front of the hotel, is scheduled to be approved.
Then Community Properties, the third developer to address Parcel B since 1999, should start refining its plans for a possible June getaway date when shovels would arch into the turf for the third time.
(To be continued)
