PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID SAN DIEGO, CA PERMIT NO. 1980
Vol. 102, Issue 5 • January 30, 2014
ENLIGHTENING LA JOLLA SINCE 1913
onlIne DaIly at lajollalight.com
Silver Street postal annex will be sold
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Shores’ merchants, residents clash over truck parking, A4
Christo’s Coming! Save La Jolla Post Office Task Force marks year No. 2, A10
Knights knock down the Vikings in boys basketball, A18
60 international movies to screen at Jewish Film Fest, B1
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New York City 2012: Christo in his studio with a preparatory drawing for ‘The Mastaba,’ a project for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Wolfgang Volz / ©Christo
Copley bequest brings ‘wrap’ artist to La Jolla By LonniE BUrsTEin HEWiTT hristo, the world-famous wrap artist, is coming to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla on Feb. 1. He won’t be doing any wrapping here, but he will be giving a lecture before the opening of an impressive exhibit of his works, mostly from the collection of the late David Copley. Copley, who died in 2012, inherited the newspaper chain founded by his adoptive father, James Copley, and was publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune from 1997 to 2009. A longtime La Jollan, he was a generous booster of the arts, one of MCASD’s most valued trustees and patrons, and the most prolific collector of Christo’s work in the country. To honor his life and legacy, the museum is presenting “X-TO+J-C,” a showing of more than 50 pieces from Christo’s 50-year collaboration with his wife, Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009. Christo, born in Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude, born in Morocco, met in Paris in their early 20s, and discovered that they shared, besides a taste for public art, the same birthday: June 13, 1935. Their huge-scale projects, like “Wrapped Reichstag” installed
sEE PosTAL AnnEx, A10
Construction on new Cove lifeguard tower to begin in February
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By PAT sHErMAn The owners of a building at 720 Silver St. that the United States Postal Service (USPS) has rented since 1975, and uses to sort incoming mail for 40 letter carrier routes, have put the property on the market. The 10,143-square-foot, singlestory building is listed on the CBRE commercial real estate website with an asking price of “best offer.” “It’s going to sell at a good price,” assured CBRE broker Paul LaFrenz, of Bird Rock. USPS has contracted CBRE to handle the sale of its properties and lease negotiations across the country, including the planned sale of La Jolla’s historic post office at 1140 Wall St. (See story, A10). Once it is placed on the market, LaFrenz will also handle the sale of the Wall Street post office (which USPS owns), though he said the Silver Street and Wall Street transactions are unrelated, and it is “coincidental” that he was hired to sell the annex.
‘Wrapped Portrait of David C. Copley,’ 2006, by Christo andré grossmann / ©Christo
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By PAT sHErMAn Construction on the new lifeguard tower planned for La Jolla Cove will now begin in February, after lifeguards are relocated to a temporary tower and support facility nearby, the city said. The project includes replacing the existing 30-square-foot, woodframed lifeguard tower (built in 1980), and upgrading the 144square-foot support station there servicing La Jolla Cove beach — both of which are aged and deteriorating, said Mark Nassar, sEE CovE ToWEr, A3
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