IRVINE, Calif. – You can’t go very far over this vast space just off Interstate 5 without coming across a bulldozer or a scissor lift with a worker in a hard hat throwing a curious glance at a few wide-eyed intruders stepping cautiously around – or, in some cases, through – their domain before turning back to the task at hand.



Stacks of pipe are piled together in one area while sheets of drywall lay on top of each other as if they were decks of cards spread apart in what will be another expanse. Exposed concrete and metal framing is, well, everywhere. Ladders dot the sections throughout. Dirt and dust happily coexist. Little-to-nothing is really finished but it soon will be.



Art Trottier can see the endpoint. He’s got to – after all it’s a vision he has had for more than a decade. He can see the hub of continuous activity, from hockey fans watching the Anaheim Ducks practice to parents cheering their kids on in high school...