Pustilnikov agrees to 25 park acres at AES
Redondo Beach is applying for grants to buy 15 acres — shaded in blue — of the 51-acre AES site, with designs to obtain 10 more acres with help from partners. Easy Reader illustration/Google Maps/City of Redondo Beach files Developer Leo Pustilnikov has agreed to work with the City of Redondo Beach in its plan to acquire major portions of Redondo’s AES power plant land, pledging to offer up about half of the 51 acre site for the city to develop a regional park. For its part, the City has applied for $30 million in state funding to purchase 15 of the 25 available land acres. The remaining 10 acres would be purchased with state and local funds. The Redondo Beach City Council unanimously approved a plan to apply for Cultural, Community and Natural Resources Grant funds — which were made available as part of a sweeping $4 billion bond approved by California voters in 2018 — at its Tuesday, Feb. 12 meeting. The Proposition 68 grant includes language written in by Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi and his predecessor David Hadley, to convert and repurpose fossil-fuel power plants. However, the city is also preparing for possibilities that the full $30 million it is targeting may not be…
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