Parklets
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Downtown L.A. Celebrates New Parklet On Hope Street
People Street meets Hope Street.
January 14, 2016
Main Street in Santa Monica Poised to Get 2 Parklets
Update: The Santa Monica City Council unanimously approved three locations for the city’s pilot parklet program. The three locations include the two recommended by staff and a third at Main and Hill in front of Finn McCool’s.
November 23, 2015
Temporary Parklets Occupy Parking Spaces During Park(ing) Day L.A. 2015
In spaces around the world, Park(ing) Day happens annually on the third Friday of September. Groups take over parking spaces, feed the meter, and create and occupy temporary parklets. It all draws attention to the potential for small urban spaces, and the high opportunity cost for turning over so much urban land to storing private automobiles.
September 21, 2015
Guide To Park(ing) Day 2015 Parklet Sites – Plus Metro Parking Update
International Park(ing) Day is not the massively humongous event it has been in past years in L.A. Nonetheless, there are still parks popping up in mid- and downtown. Below is a list of some Southern California park(s) to check out. (updated with additional sites! Some additional locations at parkingday.org)
September 17, 2015
Eyes on the Street: Parklets Arrive In East L.A.
Many cities are finding that sometimes, places where people park are just a little more desirable than places where cars park. Parklets began in San Francisco. The first Southern California parklets are in Long Beach. They've since spread to the city of Los Angeles, the city of Huntington Park, and now unincorporated East Los Angeles.
April 16, 2015
Eyes on the Street: Huntington Park Building Its Fourth Parklet!
Friend of the blog Ryan Johnson visited the Southeast L.A. County city of Huntington Park and spotted crews building that city's fourth parklet! SBLA reviewed Huntington Parks first parklet last summer.
February 17, 2015
Damaged DTLA Parklet to Be Repaired, Four New L.A. Parklets in 2015
In July 2014, according to coverage at LAist and CBS, a drunk man made off with his friend's car and, after clipping a couple of parked cars, smashed into a parklet. That parklet is located in front of Downtown Los Angeles' L.A. Cafe, on Spring Street between 6th Street and 7th Street. Sadly, since the collision, the parklet has been closed.
January 21, 2015
Former Huntington Park Parking Now a Popular Parklet, More on the Way
A new phenomenon hit the streets of Huntington Park this year. It’s a space where people can catch up on their reading and feed their coffee cravings, a space where family and friends can gather together, and a space where business deals can take place right next to kids playing dominos. It’s called a parklet.
June 13, 2014
Pop-Up Plaza Enhances Art Walk, Hints at What Could Be in Leimert
As we watched the group led by female elders drumming their way toward us, Rashida, a vendor of wonderful-smelling body scrubs, leaned over and said, "You can't get this anywhere else in L.A.!"
April 1, 2014
People St Launches: Plazas, Parklets and Bike Corrals on the Way
LADOT People St Flyer
January 21, 2014