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written agreement between the Lehman/SunCal bankruptcy trustee and a remediation firm on a $ 3.7 million plan to demolish numerous wooden outbuildings throughout the former base; all of these wooden structures have since been removed. The former Club Knoll
Officers' Club was spared so that it may be restored in the future.
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Brothers bankruptcy which continues to make its way through court.
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Southern California) bought the site for $ 100 million with plans to build a master-planned community featuring 960 homes, a shopping area and a 50-acre (20 ha) park. In 2008, SunCal began demolition, but then Lehman suddenly collapsed in September of that
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