DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — The complaint that Downtown lacks parks
will get knocked back even further next week. On Monday, June 17, the Spring Street Park will open at 9 a.m.
The June 17 opening of the $8 million facility — $5 million for land acquisition and $3 million for construction — is happening about a month earlier than originally planned because Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wanted the park to come online before his term ends July 1, said Patti Berman, who heads the nonprofit that is set to operate the park.
The park at 426 S. Spring St., between the El Dorado and Rowan lofts, features a fountain, a lawn, trees, a playground and curved benches. Work on the project began in 2009 after Downtown Properties, which developed the condominium buildings on either side, sold what was then a parking lot to the city.
Berman’s organization Friends of the Old Bank District Gardens is slated to run the park, which will be a public facility. Guidelines on how the park is to be operated are set by the city Department of Recreation and Parks.
Mike Shull, a superintendent with the Department of Recreation and Parks, said a three-year agreement with the nonprofit group is going to the department’s Board of Commissioners for approval June 19. The Monday ceremony is open to the public.
©Los Angeles Downtown News.
The June 17 opening of the $8 million facility — $5 million for land acquisition and $3 million for construction — is happening about a month earlier than originally planned because Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wanted the park to come online before his term ends July 1, said Patti Berman, who heads the nonprofit that is set to operate the park.
The park at 426 S. Spring St., between the El Dorado and Rowan lofts, features a fountain, a lawn, trees, a playground and curved benches. Work on the project began in 2009 after Downtown Properties, which developed the condominium buildings on either side, sold what was then a parking lot to the city.
Berman’s organization Friends of the Old Bank District Gardens is slated to run the park, which will be a public facility. Guidelines on how the park is to be operated are set by the city Department of Recreation and Parks.
Mike Shull, a superintendent with the Department of Recreation and Parks, said a three-year agreement with the nonprofit group is going to the department’s Board of Commissioners for approval June 19. The Monday ceremony is open to the public.
©Los Angeles Downtown News.
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