Three summers ago, 50 acres of bare land was returned to the City of Pasadena. Rarely can you stumble upon an empty plot of that magnitude in such a desirable spot in Southern California. But the land is still undeveloped and without a master plan.  The parcel once belonged to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), but after a failed, decades-long battle to extend a freeway, the government-entity relinquished the property’s control to the city. No one expected the “stub,” as the land is called, to be totally developed by now but people hoped for at least a master plan.  […]

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