In Los Angeles County, where 98 percent of coastal wetlands have been filled in and developed, conservationists worked for three decades to protect the last remnant of the historic Ballona Wetlands near the Los Angeles International Airport.
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In April 2010, following a year-long fundraising campaign, TPL protected Cahuenga Peak, the 138 acres behind the world famous Hollywood Sign.
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In an underserved Los Angeles neighborhood where no green or public spaces exist within a half-mile radius, we're creating a .2-acre park on an abandoned lot that has been vacant since the mid-1990s.
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It's called "the cornfield" because crops grew there in the 19th century. More recently, this 32-acre property on the edge of LA's downtown and Chinatown was an abandoned railyard slated for a one-million-square-foot industrial development.
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El Sereno in East Los Angeles has one of the greatest concentrations of children under five in the county—but not nearly enough parks or playgrounds to serve them.
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In 2011, the City of Lawndale purchased a 1.5 acre vacant lot to develop Larch Avenue Park as an additional recreation space for its many residents.
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We're working to build a new park on Madison Avenue in East Hollywood. If funding is secured, part of this half-acre lot will be transformed into recreation play spaces and the remainder will become a community garden.
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A third of an acre may not sound like much, but when it's the only open space for the 12,000 people living within one-half mile of the park, it's huge.
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Located along the west bank of the Los Angeles River in southeast Los Angeles County, the city of Maywood houses numerous abandoned factory sites but only two small public parks.
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In Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood, we're working with the community to transform a vacant lot surrounded by a chain link fence into a park for children who currently have no safe place to play.
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We're helping to create a pocket park for the residents of Echo Park, a dense neighborhood on the edge of downtown Los Angeles where many families with small children live.
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Pine Avenue is one of four major park developments TPL is leading in the Los Angeles area. This former vacant lot is now a beautiful and safe place for people of all ages to play.
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Located between the Los Angeles Basin and the booming communities of the San Fernando Valley, California's Santa Monica Mountains offer essential recreation in one of the nation's most densely populated regions.
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The Reseda River Loop is a multi-phase effort to create safe, usable open spaces for Los Angeles residents to walk, jog, bike and explore nature close to home.
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The planned quarter-acre South Victoria Avenue Park would reflect the community’s diverse interests and backgrounds.
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