Parkman Triangle, an example of urban acupuncture in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, is thriving one year after LA City Council President Eric Garcetti anchored the ribbon cutting in August last year.
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It has been a year since work on Parkman Triangle was completed, and now the micro-park is thriving. Last October, NBC 4 interviewed Ara Babaian about the work that went into this Silver Lake street corner, and this morning it make NBC 4’s segment on cool local neighborhoods.
About a year ago we started work on Parkman Triangle, a thin strip of land on Parkman Avenue and Silver Lake Boulevard south of Sunset Boulevard. The micro-park, once a dreary patch of asphalt, now thrives. We had some hits and misses with some plants, but now the space is lush–all those Christmastime rains sure [...]
After two years of applications, planning, negotiating, and working, Parkman Triangle is finally open. You can now grab a cafecito at Cafe Tropical and enjoy it with a guava cheese pie on one of the rocks (just throw away your trash, of course!).
Yesterday, we had a fantastic turnout for our work on Parkman Triangle. I asked Ara Babaian to share his thoughts on this project. I will invite others working on Parkman Triangle to give their views and hopes for a plan that we hope catches on in LA. Let me start with Ara!–LK/GGP On Saturday, [...]
Well, actually it was free dirt. It’s been an eye-opening experience working on the Parkman Triangle Project. I’ve spent many hours this month calling contractors, from trucking companies to landscapers to plumbers to dirt companies. What money we have really needs to go to plumbing, so to save about $2500, we decided to see what [...]
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At the corner of Silver Lake Boulevard and Parkman Avenue lies a 2000-square foot patch of asphalt that has lain empty for decades. Occasionally, trash is strewn across it; sometimes there are unpermitted weekend yard sales or flea markets; often cars are parked on it illegally. Years ago this space was paved over to make [...]