San Diego Source: One Scripps building under way; other stymied

San Diego Source: One Scripps building under way; other stymied

The $55.5 million, 120,000-square-foot National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Southwest Fisheries Center at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla is proceeding as planned.


But the nearby $26.5 million, three-story 38,000-square-foot (gross) Marine Ecosystem Sensing, Observation and Modeling (MESOM) Laboratory is not. MESOM has hit an obstacle, or is considered to be one. It's blocking the ocean view -- and in La Jolla, that's just not done.