Healthy Living Campus in Redondo Beach releases Draft EIR
The Healthy Living Campus is designed to offer residents a “sense of place,” Beach Cities Health District CEO Tom Bakaly said. Rendering courtesy of the Beach Cities Health District by Kevin Cody With Wednesday’s release of the nearly 1,200 page Healthy Living Campus draft environmental impact report, the Beach Cities Health District reaches a decisive turning point, for the second time since its founding in 1955. The proposed Healthy Living Campus would be a $374 million, 253,700 square foot complex covering 11 acres, facing Prospect Avenue in South Redondo. Its design reflects architect Paul Murdoch’s college campus projects and his Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Murdoch’s renderings show a white, circular Community Wellness Pavilion, surrounded by 2.5 acres of grass. The perimeter is rimmed by youth and senior centers and 220 senior residential care units, laid out in the shape of an arch. The sharp break from the original hospital’s boxy, Bauhaus architecture is symbolic of a sharp change in the district’s direction. At the end of the Draft EIR’s 90 day comment period, on June 10, the BCHD’s elected Board of Trustees will vote on whether or not to…
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