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 Los
Angeles, CA In late December 2004 the Los Angeles Unified
School District (LAUSD) began demolishing
approximately one third of the new and never occupied
Belmont High School campus which has cost taxpayers
$238 million to build with another $110 million for
partial demolition and reconstruction.
Watch online video segments from the Belmont Billion Dollar School Series
The
demolition of Belmont went virtually unnoticed by the
Los Angeles news media and the community because it
took place just a few days before Christmas when most
people were preoccupied wrapping holiday gifts and attending
to activities of the season.
The
LAUSD Facilities
Division refused the FULL DISCLOSURE NETWORK requests
to gain access to the site to videotape the demolition
activity. The entire site was blocked off to the
public view by chain
link fences covered with green tarp and topped with
barbed wire—the full perimeter. Some of demolished
buildings were built atop an earthquake fault on the
35-acre site in downtown Los Angeles, formerly
known as the Los Angeles Oil Field, which is plagued
with toxic hazards such as methane gas and hydrogen
sulfide.
However,
the Full Disclosure Cable Television Network was able
to shoot aerial video footage of the demolition and
will begin showing an exclusive five-minute video, of
the destruction of the controversial Belmont High School
buildings starting Wednesday, January 19, 2005.
Experts
estimate that with the cost to remediate the toxic hazards,
cost overruns and change orders, the final cost of Belmont
(renamed Vista Hermosa) could come to half a billion
dollars.
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