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Article: 'Pumpkin Patch' seeds dispute
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- April 28, 2009
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LONG BEACH - Environmentalists are emotional about the site, but
developer Tom Dean wants a cool $6.4 million for the "Pumpkin
Patch."
The seven-acre site is a central focus of children of all ages
during the holiday seasons - a pumpkin patch during the Thanksgiving
period and a large tree lot during the Christmas season.
Environmentalists consider the area, sandwiched between the south
end of The MarketPlace Shopping Center and the San Gabriel River on
the east side of Pacific Coast Highway, to be degraded wetlands.
Dean, of Studebaker, LB LLC, owns the wetlands, but is
negotiating a land-swap deal with the city that involves about 33.77
acres of the 175-acre site adjacent to the patch.