$530 million Healthy Living Campus in Redondo Beach coming soon!

Following another round of public meetings this month over a proposed $530 million Healthy Living Campus in Redondo Beach, officials at the Beach Cities Health District were taking it all in at their offices near Redondo Union High School this week.⁣
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“I think what I’m left with,” said Tom Bakaly, the health district’s CEO, “is that I’m glad we spent a year to take a broader look. The tone and the tenor are different now than a year before.”⁣
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There are still plenty of people who have questions, however, about the proposed 600,000 square-foot development that plans to replace the nearly 60-year-old former South Bay Hospital building off Prospect Avenue near Beryl Street and replace it with a sleek and modern 420-unit assisted living center and other multi-generational program space.⁣
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The biggest questions are about the project’s impacts on the surrounding neighborhoods, both during construction and operation. The projected 15-year time span for total completion has also raised eyebrows.⁣
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The entire project is planned to be constructed in three phases, roughly three years each, over a period of 15 years. That’s a lot of heavy trucks through the area, said Mark Nelson, a local resident in the Beryl Heights neighborhood, who serves on the health district’s Community Working Group.⁣
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“This is a big project that will impact traffic with tens of thousands of heavy trucks and hundreds of thousands of worker commuting trips added to one single block,” Nelson said.
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Story Via Beach Reporter