Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Open Space

Long Beach: Garcia Follows Garcetti in Restoring LA River

By Brian Addison | Nov 14, 2013 | 3 Comments

Back in April, former director of Long Beach Park, Recreation & Marine Phil Hester sat in front of a bunch of urbanerds and bicyclists, pedestrian-oriented folks and designers, and discussed an idea that is both brilliant and needed on a community level: the 2002 RiverLinks projects. RiverLinks would vastly use the underused L.A. River by connecting the […]

Friends of the Hollywood Central Park Challenge Us to Design Our Own Park

By Damien Newton | Jul 15, 2013 | 4 Comments

Friends of the Hollywood Central Park (FHCP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a 44-acre street-level park over the Hollywood Freeway in a densely populated and park-poor area of the city, launched a new facet of thir website today to encourage everyone to tap their inner architect and create their own dream park. You can […]

City Throws a Party. Press Throws a Fit. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.

By Damien Newton | Jun 6, 2013 | 10 Comments

This Friday, the City of Los Angeles is throwing itself a party in Grand Park from 5 pm to 10 pm. There will be music by local acts, student groups and celebrity musicians. Chefs, some of whom are on television, will give healthy cooking demonstrations. There will be food trucks. There will be free nachos. President Bill […]

A Freeway Cap Park in Glendale? City Council Hears Proposal Tonight

By Damien Newton | Mar 26, 2013 | No Comments

For the most part, Glendale has received infrequent but positive coverage on Streetsblog Los Angeles. Following the “embedded activist” experiment with the Los Angeles county Bike Coalition and Colin Bogart as part of a County Department of Public Health grant proved a successful model for cities looking to embrace livability and the past couple of […]

Bundy Triangle Park Open for Business (with a permit…)

By Damien Newton | Mar 4, 2013 | No Comments

Sitting at the corner of Bundy and Santa Monica Boulevards in West Los Angeles is a small piece of open space known locally as the Bundy Triangle Park. Ever since a homeless person was found dead in the park in the 1990’s the park has been surrounded by bars, literally caging open space in the […]

Villaraigosa Announces Ambitious Initiative for 50 New Parks

By Joe Linton | Aug 24, 2012 | 3 Comments

Yesterday, Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa formally announced that the city’s “50 Parks Initiative” is underway. The city’s Recreation and Parks Department is acquiring land for fifty new parks, predominantly in park-poor population-dense neighborhoods. The announcement took place at grand openings for two new parks in South Los Angeles: 49th Street Park and McKinley Avenue Park. […]

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