After 60 years, the City of Carson’s dream of developing one of the largest tracts of undeveloped land in Los Angeles County may come true as long as there aren’t any more setbacks.

The property, also known as 157 Acres, was the former location of the Cal Compact Landfill and has been sitting empty for decades due to the difficulty of developing the contaminated land.

A plan for a 400,000-square-foot luxury outlet mall has been in the works on-and-off for five years while the Carson Reclamation Authority (CRA) and developer Cam-Carson LLC, a joint venture between developers Simon and Macerich, have struggled to stay out of the courtroom and build the mall.

However, the legal battle has come to an end with the termination of all development agreements. The settlement agreement was reache

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