Jo Speaks / No Comment from Developer

Turf war
Resident's grip on her land puts developers in a limbo
01:29 AM PDT on Sunday, July 17, 2005
By PAUL LAROCCO / The Press-Enterprise
TOWN CENTER
The 20-acre downtown shopping center on Barton Road would include:
160,000-square-foot Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse
45,000-square-foot Stater Bros. market
7,500-square-foot San Bernardino County Library branch.

GRAND TERRACE - It's not quite the immovable force versus the irresistible object, but Jo Stringfield knows something's about to give.
She's watched with growing wariness over the past year as Grand Terrace took plans for a 20-acre downtown shopping center on her property from pie-in-the-sky stages to the point of signed agreements with two major big-box retailers.

She has watched as the Town Center developer successfully purchased homes around her, including a trailer park and one owned by a former Grand Terrace mayor.
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"It breaks my heart to see them tearing these houses down," she said.
Once she does relinquish her 1.94-acre property, Stringfield said she is unsure where she'll land. But she jokes about lurking in the completed Town Center complex, wheeling a shopping cart around in front of Stater Bros. like an eccentric old woman recalling the glory days.
"I'll be like, 'Enjoy my property,' " she said, laughing. "I can say, 'See this parking lot? My horse is buried back here. My mule is buried back there.' "
Reach Paul LaRocco at (909) 806-3056 or plarocco@pe.com
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Comments:
July 14, 2005 Grand Terrace City News "City Tom Schwab ..expressed the willingness, if necessary to use eminent domain prodecure to bring the Grand Terrace Towne Center to fruition. The city has said it will back Jacobsen up by beginning condemnation procedure if the owners of the remaining four parcels don't prove amenable to making a sale." article by Eleanor Capadona Volume XII, Number 9. Hum,-- Earlier statement by Schwab, made to get ordinances passed--said no residents would be forced out of their homes or forced to sell under pressure.
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