‘ Developer, environmentalists clash in Puerto Penasco ‘, from the San Diego Union Tribune
The future of a prime beachfront parcel in the booming Gulf of California community of Puerto PeNasco has brought a showdown between a well-respected environmental group with strong U.S. ties that is housed on the site and a U.S. developer who wants to build condominiums there.
While a Mexican judge considers their claims to the land, the bulldozers have been stopped outside the enclave operated by the 26-year-old group, CEDO A.C., or Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans, inside the upscale Las Conchas development south of town.
“It’s the last piece of property in the middle of what is the most desirable area within Puerto Peñasco,” said Las Fuentes del Mar developer Patrick Clifton, who has purchased 13 acres of the 17-acre site, and has plans for 47 town-house villas.
