The item below, which indicates that veterans' preferences for what they wanted at the VA-Westwood campus were ignored, may be relevant to the issue of UCLA's now-closed baseball stadium there. What kind of use, if any, would veterans want for the stadium? That issue would seem relevant to whatever the judge in the case ultimately approves or disapproves.
From the LA Times: Officials of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the developer contracted to build housing on the VA’s West Los Angeles campus failed to disclose findings from a survey showing that a large majority of veterans expressed interest in having a hotel as part of a town center on the property. Executives of the development partnership, the West Los Angeles Veterans Collective, have excluded a hotel from their plans and denied in interviews and public meetings that the survey found any veteran interest in a hotel.
“That concept did not come up in any of the outreach we have done to date in our six years on the job,” Brian D’Andrea, senior vice president of Century Housing, told The Times in a September interview. “It did not come up in the survey results that we heard from veterans on.”
But a tabulation of the survey’s responses obtained by The Times shows that 75% of the veterans surveyed expressed strong or moderate interest in a “hotel or hospitality services for veterans and their families.” A hotel rated above several other amenities that are included in the plan, such as a library or museum...
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