West Hollywood spent nearly a year asking residents what they want done with Plummer Park. Tuesday night, the City shows its work.
A community open house runs from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Great Hall, Long Hall, and courtyard at the park, 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard. Free and open to the public.
Exhibits and displays will show what the City heard during more than a year of workshops, pop-up events, walking tours, surveys, and door-to-door outreach. Staff will present a community feedback summary and an updated Needs Assessment. Refreshments and giveaways will be available.
It isn’t a public hearing. No vote. But it matters.
The Phase 1 Summary Report gets finalized after Tuesday. That report goes to City Council. From there, the Council decides whether to move into Phase 2. Phase 2 is where the actual plan gets written. What gets built. What gets funded. What doesn’t.
Tuesday is the last public checkpoint before any of that happens. If the City’s summary doesn’t reflect what residents actually said, this is the moment to say so.
What the City heard
Phase 1 reached more than 400 people. Three community meetings. An ad-hoc committee. Four pop-up events. Four topical chats. Two walking tours. A teen workshop. The team knocked on 2,000 doors. More than 450 online responses came in.
People showed up with opinions. Vista Lawn and the sports courts are the two most-used parts of the park. The shade trees are the park’s defining feature, residents said. The Helen Albert Certified Farmers’ Market and the community food programs were called essential. The historic buildings need to stay.
The problems were just as clear. Lighting is bad, especially behind Great Hall and Long Hall and over on the Fuller Avenue side. The playground is outdated. Nobody can figure out the signage. Some residents didn’t know there were historical markers in the park at all. The Community Center feels like it belongs to a different property.
People want things the park doesn’t have. A splash pad. A pool. A cafe. A maker space. Weekend programming. Outdoor fitness equipment. Evening events. A loop to walk or run.
What the Needs Assessment found
A formal 2026 Plummer Park Needs Assessment compared the park against similar communities. The numbers backed up what residents said.
Four times less open green space than peer communities. Four times fewer fitness zones. Half the playground area. No dedicated outdoor performance space.
One resident said it plainly during the brainstorming workshop: “Right now it’s still one of the only true green spaces left in West Hollywood.”
How the plan got here
This whole process is a reset. Previous master plans wanted to tear down Great Hall and Long Hall. Replace them with a big central lawn and an underground parking structure. City Council revoked those plans in February 2025, after years of community pushback.
Residents had been fighting that for more than a decade. Stephanie Harker and Cathy Blavis led the effort to get Great Hall and Long Hall listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The buildings are Spanish Colonial Revival. Built in 1937 with Works Progress Administration funds. Los Angeles County bought the land that year from Eugenio “Captain” Plummer to keep it out of foreclosure.
Fiesta Hall was built in 1949. West Hollywood held its first City Council meeting there after incorporating in 1984.
ACT-UP/LA met in Great Hall every week for nine years. The Audubon Society made it their home. Neighborhood watch groups still meet there. The park hosts the LGBTQ business summit, coyote safety briefings, community dinners. It’s one of the last real green spaces on the eastside.
Maintenance hasn’t kept up. Residents complained for years about the restrooms, the deferred repairs, the buildings sitting locked and unused. Competing visions kept stalling any actual progress.
What’s new at the park
A new off-leash dog park is under construction on the west side. Opens this year. Separate areas for large and small dogs, artificial turf, shade sails, dual-use water fountains.
For more information, contact project architect Michael Barker at (323) 848-6483 or mbarker@weho.org. Urban Design and Architecture Studio Manager Ric Abramson can be reached at (323) 848-6476 or rabramson@weho.org. More at
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