As the hours preceding this afternoon’s semi-stiff 5 o’clock drop-dead hour at the Culver City Ice Arena dwindle down to a precious few, the human scene around 4545 Sepulveda Blvd., is resembling a mausoleum.
The outcome is no clearer at the noon hour than City Hall’s meandering motives and off-stage beehiving have been for the past several weeks.
Successfully, they have muzzled operatives within their reach to dare not comment on the liquid narrative.
The storyline is changing faster than the clock on the wall.
Understandably, the city wants to be assured that its version of facts and opinions are related to the community on a single channel is heard with one story and a single opinion.
“We have been requested not to get into side discussions,” one source said yesterday afternoon.
In less than five hours, City Hall has been implying for a week – but never overtly stating – that it will muscle onto the allegedly ammonia-laden property and –
Completing that sentence has been left to speculators because city officials stopped at that point.
The apparent transparency with which City Hall repeatedly and loudly proclaimed its virgin-white neutrality during January has receded into mysterious whispered, but unacknowledged dialogues with persons and groups who want/wanted to become the next Ice Arena tenant. The city, however, never has admitted this scenario.
Attorneys for the city and for the Ice Arena and its deputized next tenants, the Takahashi family, were believed under way throughout the morning.
