How should VA proceed with the businesses on this deeded property?

Sgt Spencer Sikder — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:07:03 -0400

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/22/deadline-nears-for-va-plan-to-restore-prime-la-land-to-veteran-care/?intcmp=hpbt1

With all the enterprises on this property, how could veterans care benefit without displacing the hundreds of workers in these businesses?

No more golf, wine-tasting: Prime LA land deeded for soldiers' care to return to intended use

More than a century after a mining magnate and a wealthy socialite deeded 400 acres in Los Angeles for the care of old soldiers, the property hosts wine tastings, a baseball stadium, a commercial laundry, a storage facility and several other enterprises that have nothing to do with wounded warriors.

Response by Sgt David G Duchesneau made Sep 22 at 2015 3:10 PM

Sgt David G Duchesneau — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:10:04 -0400

By putting veterans to work running and managing this place

Response by PO3 Steven Sherrill made Sep 22 at 2015 3:21 PM

PO3 Steven Sherrill — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:21:33 -0400

Sgt Spencer Sikder, I agree with Sgt David G Duchesneau, bring in Veterans to run the place. I think they should leave the college stadium with the caveat that all services from grounds crew to concession stands are to be filled with Veterans. Further I think that they should let the college take the ticket/merchandise sales, but the concession/parking revenue goes to the vets. I think they should use those funds to build dormitories to house veterans with nowhere else to go. Any space not used for the stadium and the dormitory should be used for Community, Veteran Sourced agriculture. Let the veterans living on the property plant some crops that can be used in the campus mess hall, stadium catering, and be sold at local farmer's markets. Let the land go from being rented to actually contributing to bettering the lives of veterans in need.