The initial meeting of the city’s West Hollywood Park Design Steering Committee will be held tomorrow night (Wednesday).
It will be one of a series of public meetings to be held through September to engage residents in process of implementing the second phase of the park plan. Tomorrow night’s meeting will be at 6 p.m. in the Community Meeting Room at West Hollywood Library, 625 N. San Vicente Blvd. south of Santa Monica. Others will be on June 4, July 2, Aug. 6 and Sept. 3, all at 6 p.m. and at the Community Meeting Room.
Phase I of the West Hollywood Park Master Plan created the new West Hollywood Library, which celebrated its grand opening in October 2011. Phase II of the West Hollywood Park Master Plan includes concepts for additional open park space, development of a new recreation and community center with a gymnasium and park support facilities and children’s playground areas. A new aquatic facility, with a lap pool and a recreational pool, is planned for the rooftop of the new gym. An AIDS monument is also planned, to be located near the entrance to the West Hollywood Library.
Tomorrow night’s meeting will provide committee members with background and history of West Hollywood Park, as well as the current conceptual vision of the selected architects and landscape architects. They are LPA Inc., a sustainable design architecture firm, which has completed numerous award-winning public and private buildings throughout Southern California, and Rios Clemente Hale Studio, a multi-disciplinary design firm with a wide range of professional skills including landscape architecture for civic projects.
Design Steering Committee meetings will be broadcast on WehoTV, which provides access to city government on Time Warner Cable channel 10 or digital channel 95-203 within the City of West Hollywood. WehoTV is also available online at www.weho.org/wehotv.
The West Hollywood Park project is a component of the City of West Hollywood’s 25th Anniversary Capital Project, established in 2009 to celebrate 25 years of cityhood with the aim of developing world-class facilities that reward the community.
Additional information on the West Hollywood Park project is available online or by contacting Jeffrey Huffer, the city’s strategic initiatives manager, by telephone at (323) 848-6846 or by email at jhuffer@weho.org.
Regarding the MTA, Sheriff station etc….one word (ok two words…) COHEN BROS….building a mall, hotel, movie theaters etc…..gonna happen so get ready!!!
For those who the MTA will move from their current location I doubt if that will ever happen. It has been at this location and at one time included the PDC property also since the late 1800’s. Bus yards are strategically located and this is the furthest west of any of the Divisions. Besides just dispatching buses, Division Seven Maintenance is responsible for all breakdowns from Vermont Ave to the beach and north to Leo Carreo (sp) Beach. I’m sure no one would want to see Santa Monica and La Brea tied until a tow truck could respond from Downtown… Read more »
Bazoo No the basketball courts are going to be turned into dance floors and stripper poles when “cooleys” expands. If there is a phase three and cooleys is built overlooking the park I wonder if they will then try to stop the building and or replacement of the courts ? In the new design show by LPA which is the now chosen designer for the park there was a much needed dog park included in the north west corner near the basketball courts right outside the new glass patio designed into Cooleys. Any wagers on if David Cooleys and his… Read more »
I thought the building was going to take over the basketball courts or is that phase 3?
Even if there is any truth to this “high water table” issue..we can still build parking structures that dont look like parking. If the whole MTA/Sheriff Dept is 10 acres..the could build a 2 level parking structure towards the back of the property along an entire 10 acres and have a TON of parking. The rest of that corner should be developed for open space, green space or create more smaller-framed “main street style” storefronts along Weho so we dont lose our village atmosphere and put the park behind it and parking. That Red building was just absurd to build.… Read more »
Riley, If the problem was the water table stopping them from going underground with the parking structure how can they be advocating a subway. The answer of course is whatever the water table is it could have been mitigated but they chose not to. It’s my belief they wanted something to rival the PDC buildings which I believe are now a eye sore with three huge building crowded on a inadequate piece of land. And with the Red Building they went to far and I think it was built to close to the MTA property line, and access is limited… Read more »
Weho Park is not big enough for baseball diamonds. Well it actually is, but if you put diamonds back in that’s all you’ll have room for…..as was the case before. Baseball diamonds take up a HUGE amount of space.
We have a relatively small park, this plan has the best most practical use for all.
The rendering above is not “the” design. It’s from one of three finalists. You can see all three of them here — http://www.weho.org/city-hall/strategic-initiatives-special-projects/west-hollywood-park-master-plan-phase-ii/finalist-firm-s-concept-renderings-and-presentations
@Mike Dunn – one word answer…PARKING. It’s about more parking. Is it worth 80 million dollars? It was reported 67 million for Phase I and I read it had reached 87 million before it was done. Parking is the main revenue stream for the entire city. I heard that was what Plummer Park’s plan was all about; putting in 68 new parking spaces to sell to new businesses on SM Blvd. @Save Weho – I heard they did above ground for the library structure because they can’t go underground due to a high water table in the whole area. Remember… Read more »
I’m not sure why people are going nuts over this building. The footprint is only over an unused piece of land that is currently landscaped and a surface parking lot. By developing over top of that we’ll be gaining more ground space where the old pool is and easing congestion of the basketball courts. There will not be any loss of usable green space.
I do wish the City would have turned the bus depot into a park or civic center. It would fit much better there than a mega-mall.
They should put back the baseball diamonds and have room for all the gay leagues sports that the City is whining have no room to play in WeHo. Before they changed that park, there was plenty of room to play.
This is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Any city council member that votes for basically a building with some grass pads to replace our local, historic “park” should be voted out of office. This is a huge building and only adds to the condensed, congested direction West Hollywood is going. This is absurd. Like the commenter said above. This isn’t a park. This is a civic center. If you want a Civic Center…relocate the bus terminal and create a new smaller framed civic center that includes the sheriff’s dept or whatever. Or build this in this small… Read more »