PDC v PEC
So today's story about the Pasadena Enterprise Center is one of those that really should have been reported three months ago when the situation was playing out. I didn't know about it until some of the tenants -- in the dark and anxious about their livelihood -- contacted me with their concerns.
Although the story by Wednesday was ostensibly about the small business owners affected, the backstory is about how the innumerable nonprofits in Pasadena interoperate and compete for resources. The PEC was more or less an offshoot of the PDC, created as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to manage the center's operations and finances. The PDC rented space, and by all appearances, engineered a hostile takeover of PEC, which took the unusual step of dissolving its legal status.