Here’s some information about Farm Fresh getting shut down from the owner Par Aria. This includes items he told us on CCN, and much more info that we couldn’t include on the newscast. Some eye-opening information here, that I’m not sure has been printed or aired yet.
Oh, and by the way, for those questioning our journalistic ethics and abilities because we “post only one side of the story” on the CCN Blog, aside from blogs operating completely differently than actual news programs, we’ve tried numerous times to contact Dorn Platz, and never gotten a response. If we received information from some others or “the other side” we’d post that too. Not that the comment we saw the other day on another blog actually deserves a response, but just in case any of our viewers gave it any credence…Hey, but at least the blogger reads the CCN Blog!
Anyway, here’s the info from Aria:
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General Information Related To Farm Fresh Problems
Par Aria,Owner
By now almost everybody in Altadena community and surrounding cities are aware of the problems related to Altadena Lincoln Crossing project (ALC). Your community should not have allowed this type of developer with deep pocket and deeper connection with powerful politicians to use their premeditated notion, empty promises, and misrepresentation in order to entice innocent business owners to come and invest millions of dollars of hard earned money in your neighborhood project. We came to ALC with good faith and assuming that it is going to be a fair business investment and dealing with decent developers. But the truth is they are not decent and they are untouchables. There is no way that anybody can protect themselves against this type of individuals and their practices. How come in one project there are so many lawsuits against the developer? 100% of everybody involved in the construction of ALC, such as contractors, engineers, small & large, were short changed. Among all the contractors and tenants, as far as we know, 6 of them have been awarded successfully in getting some kind of judgment / moneys from the developer.
1) The concrete contractor : $300,000
2) Summit builder : $600,000
3) Swinerton builder : $1.5 Million
4) Contractor Allen : undisclosed amount yet
5) Panda Express : Free Rent against their judgment of award
6) Mat Pharmacy : $50,000
7) At least 4 architecture and engineering companies : on the process
8) Western Air : Went out of business
Whereas there is possibility of more than 10 lawsuits to come, whereas not to mention yet East West Bank (click here for more).
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