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Council Backs Key Chinatown Project

LOS ANGELES-Majestic Realty wins another round in effort to build on 'Cornfield' site, but opponents promise a court battle.

By David W. Myers | Updated on August 28, 2000

LOS ANGELES-The City Council here has upheld a local planning group’s approval of a proposed industrial development in Chinatown, one of the last steps toward building an $80-million business park on one of the Downtown area’s last raw pieces of land.

The Council’s 9 to 2 vote essentially affirmed the approval that the Central Area Planning Commission gave the project last month. Locally based Majestic Realty Co. says the business park could create up to 1,000 jobs, but some community activists want to see the land used for a park, school and affordable housing. A few environmentalists have said the land should be left the way it is.

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