Category Archives: Parks
DWP Said It Would Leave the Park
“One-third of the Palisades remains after the Palisades Fire,” Park Advisory Board (PAB) member Rick McGeagh said, urging the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to exit the park. “People need a place for recreation. Those of us...
Promise: Palisades Will Have Greatest Park in the Nation
4.10.25 Rec Center Renderings Standing at the intersection of Alma Real and the entrance to the Palisades Park Recreation Center today were L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, L.A. Strong Sports co-founder and Lakers Coach JJ Redick and Rick Caruso who has...
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New Playground for Residents by July
YAY! A new playground is coming to the Palisades Recreation Center on Alma Real. That announcement was made at the Palisades Park Advisory Board Meeting, held via Zoom on March 18. The playground at the Rec Center was nearly 40...
Posted in Kids/Parenting, Palisades Fire, Parks
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Viewpoint: Get the DWP Out of the Park
This editor was with a New York Times photographer this morning. For a story about Pacific Palisades and its future, she was asked to have her photo taken. When CTN asked where other Palisades people were being photographed, the Times...
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Questions about the DWP Utility Center. Why? Why Is the Park Gone?
In a March 7 newsletters, L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger wrote “our County Department of Parks and Recreation has committed to reopening Loma Alta Park in May! Thanks to a $2.4 million donation from the FireAid L.A. concert in partnership...
Posted in Palisades Fire, Parks
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L.A. County Supervisor Green Lights Parks
L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger wrote in her March 7 newsletter that “Each one of the County parks in Altadena was impacted by the Eaton Fire, and these vital spaces for community gathering and recreation have been sorely missed. That’s...
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L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Makes Big Announcement
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass held a 9 a.m. press conference on March 6 in Pacific Palisades at the Rec Center, which has now been turned into a L.A. Department of Water and Power center that goes by the name: Unified...
Posted in Palisades Fire, Parks
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DWP Takes Over the Rec Center
While accompanying photographer Rich Schmitt to document the many buildings and blocks of businesses lost during the Palisades Fire, we looked in the small gym at the Recreation Center, 851 Alma Real. It had been carpeted and divided into numerous...
Posted in Palisades Fire, Parks
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Park Advisory Board Meeting a Sh*t Show
The Palisades Fire gravely impacted the Recreation Center, destroying not only the tennis building, the large gym and some of the field dugouts, but also the landscaping. What was left? A 1950s brick building without heat, wifi or ADA bathrooms...
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Park Advisory Board Meeting February 18
The Pacific Palisades Park Advisory Board will meet via Zoom at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 18. This is a particularly important meeting to find answers from Rec and Parks about the plans for dealing with fire damage to the park...
Posted in Palisades Fire, Parks
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