Newport Beach in the Rearview Mirror

23: The 20 Worst Ideas in Newport Beach History (Part 2)

August 12, 2022
Newport Beach in the Rearview Mirror
23: The 20 Worst Ideas in Newport Beach History (Part 2)
Show Notes

Trying to develop Corona del Mar in the early 20th Century. Planning for Fashion Island to be an indoor shopping center. Proposing to jam 80,000 residents (for context, Newport's population today is about 87,000) into the Newport Coast. Newport Beach, in one form or another, has been around for more than 150 years, and over that time, there's been some terrible ideas floated, and some even implemented. In the second installment of this three-part episode, we count down the 12th to the 7th worst ideas in Newport Beach history.