El Camino College Won’t OK Shopping Center Plan

A proposal to turn an El Camino College parking lot into a shopping center has been set aside indefinitely by college trustees.

Trustees voted 4-0 not to proceed with any of three development proposals presented to them last month. Proposals had called for building a shopping center on the 1,100-space lot at Crenshaw and Redondo Beach boulevards and using profits from the development to build 2,000 spaces in structures elsewhere.

“It may be premature for the district to make a long-term commitment for the use of that property other than for education or other district purposes,” said Donald Sorsabal, school vice president. Administrators began studying the idea in July after a builder said developing the lot would turn a profit.