The site of a failed Home Depot design center proposal near Los Cerritos Wetlands is up for sale. Tom Dean of Studebaker, LB LLC, is asking for $18.9 million.

The site had been the center of an intense battle between Dean and environmentalists who asserted his proposed Home Depot project at Studebaker Road and Loynes Drive would create too many negative impacts on the neighboring Los Cerritos Wetlands.

During the battle, Dean abandoned the push for a Home Depot but shifted to another project, seeking permits to build an almost identical development on 16.5 acres at the same location.

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