Article: 'Pumpkin Patch' seeds dispute

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.

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