CITY COUNCIL: Project Pulse narrowed to parking, mixed use, open space

by Mark McDermottThe Manhattan Beach City Council last April authorized purchase of the former U.S. Bank site in the heart of downtown, in part to stave off dense residential development that state laws would have encouraged for the 16,570 square feet, three-parcel tract.In buying the property, for $13 million, the City of Manhattan Beach acquired a piece of a larger puzzle that also includes, one block away, its Lot 3 parking lot. The Lot 3 structure had to be demolished last August due