Beverly Hills, home to some of America's most expensive properties, is becoming the place of an expensive battle for real estate.
On one side is the builder Beny Hauling, which flooded the residents of phone calls and letters to promote the vote of a measure in November that allows you to join two apartment towers already planned in a single building that would be the highest in Southern California enclave .
Hauling, owner of the Beverly Hilton hotel, has spent $ 3.1 million on the campaign, that is, almost $ 140 for each of the 22,500 registered voters in the city.
On the other side there is an opponent with pockets even more full and own plans for the rich community midway between downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific coast.
The Dalian Wanda Group, a Chinese real estate construction company headed by Wang Jianlin - the 19th richest person in the world with a net worth of $ 32.7 billion - proposes to build two towers across the street Hauling project.
Wanda Group also plans to spend an amount not revealed to reject the vote, according to a paper presented at the town hall.
"We seek a compromise, but they decided to bet everything," said the mayor of Beverly Hills, John Mirisch, who opposes the proposed Hauling.
Although Mirisch has not taken a position on the Wanda Group plan, which projects a 15-story building with a hotel and apartments and other next with 13 floors of apartments, he praised the company for seeking the approval of the city instead of looking directly voters.
witnesses
On 25 August, the Wanda Group submitted forms to create a committee that would raise money to oppose the vote that Hauling want to do, which seeks to combine two buildings already approved in a single tower of 26 floors and reserve the rest of the ground for a park with public gardens.
The committee, Beverly Hills Residents and Businesses to Preserve Our City, showed no financial statement, and Rohan A'Beckett, deputy general manager of Wanda Beverly Hills Properties, did not respond to a question about how much your company is prepared to spend .
At a meeting of the city planning commission made on 23 August, lawyers and consultants Hauling and his company Oasis West Realty testified against the Wanda Group project.
They said congestionaria traffic in the area and endanger the Beverly Hilton, opened in 1953, home of the Golden Globe Awards and Daytime Emmy.
'The people gave their verdict'
Hauling, an American with Israeli descent who in 1986 founded the computer company that uses the name Packard Bell, he said he was surprised to learn that Wanda Group plans to spend money against your proposal.
He rejected the criticism made by the mayor and by others, that he is trying to circumvent the normal processes of city planning with a vote.
In 2008, city voters approved his plan to build two adjacent towers 8:18 floors, and all Hauling is trying to do now is join them, but also to develop a park, he said.
Robert Tanenbaum, chairman of the Beverly Hills North Homeowners Association, opposed the two towers Hauling plan in 2008, but said that now it's time to give up the dissidents.
The revised design, with green space, it is better for the community than the already approved by the voters, Tanenbaum said.
"In 2008, the people gave their verdict," he said. "Back to the public was the right thing."
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