West Adams Heights Park

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Category: Community News
Published on Friday, 20 September 2013 16:19
Written by Norman Gilmore

Answering the call for more community parks and recreational opportunities, the Department of Recreation and Parks created the “50 Parks Initiative” with a focus on densely populated neighborhoods and communities that lack these important resources.  Partnering with LANI, the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Initiative organization and the Sugar Hill Neighborhood Association, groundbreaking took place this summer for the new West Adams Heights Park located at Normandie Ave. and Cordova St. 


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Joining the local residents and stakeholders at the parks groundbreaking were CD10's Council President Wesson, Joyce Perkins; Founder of LANI and current LANI Board Member, Veronica Hahni; Executive Directer of LANI, Jon Mukri; General Manager of the Department of Recreation and Parks, and members of the West Adams Heights—Sugar Hill Neighborhood Association. “We have too many neighborhoods where there are no parks and virtually no open space,” said Council President Wesson. “I am pleased that the city has had the vision to seize on opportunities like this to make a difference for our residents.”

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