Redevelopment

Representative Experience

  • Greenberg Glusker attorney James Hughes was a principal contributor to the Seventh Partial Consent Decree approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC).  The consent decree was entered by the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in connection with a proposed brownfields shopping center development on a landfill portion of the OII Superfund Site in Monterey Park, California. This consent decree, and the project land use controls and entitlements, established new legal and business methods and techniques for handling concurrent clean-up and retail development activities on a Superfund site. Mr. Hughes has also served as land use and redevelopment counsel to the master developers of other environmentally-impacted sites in California.
  • Represented a developer in the acquisition, redevelopment and disposition of Bella Terra Shopping Center, an approximately one million-square-feet project which was formerly known as the Huntington Beach Mall.
  • Represented the developer of former Boeing Challenger aerospace plant in Downey, California, which was proposed for multi-use retail, office, industrial and warehouse use.

For more information, please contact James Hughes.