Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Parks

When a Door Closes, a Window Always Opens…Because Someone Will Saw Through the Fence

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 7, 2012 | 11 Comments

The South Los Angeles Wetlands Park located at 54th and Avalon is having a rough go of it these days. Earlier this year, officials had to drain it in order to replace the leaking ceramic basin with plastic liners. It remained dry as a bone until the recent drizzling rains. But those have left it […]

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. […]

Aileen Getty Foundation Donates $1.2 Million to Hollywood Central Park

By Damien Newton | Aug 22, 2012 | 1 Comment

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, accepted a $1.2 million gift today from the Aileen Getty Foundation. The donation, combined $825,000 from the city fully funds the park’s environmental study, […]

Has Ball, Needs Field: A Parking Lot Becomes a Fútbol Field for an Afternoon

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 22, 2012 | 9 Comments

RIDING BACK FROM an interview at a school garden off King Blvd., I came across a dozen guys engaged in a serious game of fútbol in a Coliseum parking lot. Curious, I plopped myself down next to Oscar Villatoro, a sweet guy in glasses who was sitting out the game because of a bum knee. […]

End Goal in Pacoima: A Wash That’s Beautiful

By Damien Newton | Sep 26, 2011 | 5 Comments

One of the lessons that the world’s great cities learned is how to use natural and man created landmarks to strengthen and create great places. This is one area where Los Angeles still lags, and nowhere is this clearer than in the case of the Pacoima Wash. The Wash is a tributary of the Los […]

Streetfilms: Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

According to the Project for Public Spaces (PPS), Portland, Oregon’s Pioneer Courthouse Square is one of the Top 10 greatest public spaces in the U.S. & Canada. I couldn’t agree more. Affectionately referred to as the city’s "living room" the charming and versatile block was once slated to be a parking garage in the 1960s. […]

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