Councilman Alber, sarcastically: “This looks to me like the Bandini field is coming to life!”

Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-13/patt-morrison-lax-and-other-southern-california-airports

The story of Bruce’s Beach bears some similarity to the case in which the City of Santa Monica has used land deeded by Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Bakerwealthy Latina socialite, philanthropist and landowner as a public parking lot and playground.

Source: https://palisadesnews.com/bruce-family-to-sell-beach-back-to-los-angeles-county-for-20-million/

This is the first newly refurbished building to open as part of that plan, which calls for 1,200 housing units on this land that was gifted in the 1880s by a local businesswoman named Arcadia Bandini Stearns de Baker with one concrete condition.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/national-world/cnn-national/2023/02/28/new-housing-opens-for-59-homeless-veterans-on-va-owned-land-in-los-angeles-6-years-after-1200-units-were-promised/