In a press release published Monday, February 9, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the termination of several leases on its West LA VA campus, most notably ending its agreement with the Brentwood School, a private K-12 academy that’s reared the offspring of some of the city’s most powerful figures.
The VA also terminated the department’s lease with Safety Park, which had operated a parking lot on the campus that served shoppers in the Brentwood neighborhood, and its agreement with Bridgeland Resources, which conducted oil drilling operations on the 388-acre VA campus.
In the press release, the VA acknowledged the rulings of federal judge David O. Carter and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, both of which had ruled the agreements between the VA and the parties violated federal law.