Danny Bakewell

A Pasadena city employee who filed a police complaint against activist Danny Bakewell, alleging that he slammed him against a wall during a City Hall meeting, has asked that Bakewell not be prosecuted. Fred Jones, 48, the city's senior project manager for housing and development, and Bakewell filed statements of non-prosecution with the Police Department, city spokeswoman Ann Erdman said. Last month, Jones filed a police report alleging that Bakewell, 52, assaulted him on Sept.

A plan to build northwest Pasadena's first shopping center is back on track now that Danny Bakewell's development company has agreed to pay for the removal of a condemned strip mall on the site of the city-assisted project. Responding to the City Council's rejection of his request for a $71,000 loan to help clear the way for the Fair Oaks Renaissance Plaza, Bakewell said Wednesday that his firm will foot the bill so the long-delayed project can move forward.

The Pasadena City Council has delayed until March 25 a controversial vote on whether to ask developer Danny Bakewell to pay more for a city-owned site for a proposed supermarket shopping center. The question of whether to change the terms of the sale came after the city dropped a key requirement that Bakewell guarantee a Vons will stay there for 20 years.

The Pasadena City Council has rejected a demand from developer Danny Bakewell's company for a $71,000 loan to pay for clearing a city-owned site where he is planning to build a supermarket shopping center. The council, which already agreed to sell the property that cost the city about $11 million to Bakewell for just $1.5 million, refused Monday to provide any additional funds for the project.

After nearly a month of protest and negotiations--including mediation by the U.S. Justice Department--the African-American Honor Committee announced Wednesday that it has reached a model agreement with the general contractor at a Gardena shopping center site to employ more black construction workers. Danny Bakewell, president of the Brotherhood Crusade, said the agreement could produce 25 to 30 new jobs for black workers, who barely had been represented at the work site before.

The Pasadena City Council has decided that developer Danny Bakewell's company will not pay more for a city-owned site for a proposed supermarket shopping center in the community's economically deprived northwest area, despite critics' charges that the $1.5-million price tag is about half the property's value.

Cautioning the Compton branch of the NAACP that it is "part of the structure," a national director of the civil rights group chastised the local leadership Sunday for engaging in a public power struggle against a perceived "coup" by a local developer. William H.

A Pasadena city official has filed a police complaint alleging that activist Danny Bakewell slammed him against a wall during a City Hall meeting over a proposal to bring a restaurant to Bakewell's Fair Oaks Renaissance Plaza shopping center. The official, Fred Jones, told police that Bakewell, 52, assaulted him Sept. 22 in a scuffle witnessed by Pasadena's acting assistant city manager, according to a police report released Monday. The three men met to discuss a request by Denny's Inc.

The Food 4 Less Corp. and Bakewell Development have agreed to seek approval from the city Community Redevelopment Agency to build an Alpha Beta supermarket at Adams Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. Redevelopment agency spokesman Chuck Sifuentes said the agency's board of directors will decide Thursday whether to grant Food 4 Less and Brotherhood Crusade President Danny Bakewell the exclusive negotiating rights for the project.

More than a dozen Compton ministers and political leaders on Wednesday rallied behind Brotherhood Crusade President Danny J. Bakewell, a real estate developer who came under fire earlier this month from the chief of the city's NAACP chapter for threatening to foreclose on an African American-owned business. Bakewell is a key player in a real estate partnership that owns the shopping center that includes Mr. J's Family Restaurant and Sports Bar, and is prepared to close down the failing business.