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Welcome to The Hollywood Freeway Central Park Official Website

Shortly our website will be under construction to better serve our community. In the meantime, we are proud to provide you with the following update.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City Council President Eric Garcetti, City Council Member Tom LaBonge, Assembly Member Kevin DeLeon, Assembly Member Mike Feuer, CRA/LA Hollywood and Friends of the Hollywood Cap Park invite all Hollywood Stakeholders to a Cap Park Community-Wide Meeting featuring USC School of Architecture Master Landscape Studio Class Presentations* and plenty of Park Updates! View the Cap Park community meeting invitation here (English and Spanish).

Saturday, July 11, 2009, 9-11AM
Historic Fountain Court
1370 North St. Andrews Place, Hollywood
(inside the Assistance League of Southern California)

PARKING: Parking available in the lot behind the building and just south of the building at St. Andrews and Fernwood + street parking also available

*USC School of Architecture Master Landscape Studio Class used the Cap Park as their semester project. You will be inspired by their excellent thinking, creativity and vision for YOUR PARK!

» The Feasibility Study was completed by EDAW in November 2008 - More than 500 Hollywood Stakeholders attended four community wide meetings.

» The 44 acre Cap Park will provide new park space in the most park-poor part of the Los Angeles (Hollywood has one of the lowest resident-to-park space communities in California).

» The park will:

  • Produce more than 4,500 construction jobs
  • Make long needed ramp improvements and streamline freeway functioning
  • Improve air quality and reduce global warming by replacing freeway surfaces with green surfaces
  • Serve as a demonstration project for 21st century cutting-edge environmental technologies
  • Reconnect parts of Hollywood split for decades by the construction of the freeway
  • Serve as a national model for the creation of new green space in a dense, urban environment

» We formed the necessary 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation in January 2009 and currently have 24 Board Members

  • Phil Aarons, Chair
  • Laurie Goldman, President
  • Don Scott, Vice President
  • Alfred Fraijo, Secretary
  • Terri Gerger, Treasurer
  • George Abou Daoud
  • Jeff Briggs
  • Scott Campbell
  • Heather Cochran
  • David Eads
  • Brain Folb
  • David Gajda
  • Phil Hart
  • Alfredo Hernandez
  • Ed Hunt
  • Coby King
  • Jacob Lipa
  • Jerold Neuman
  • David Nix
  • Susan Polifirino
  • Nicole Shahenian
  • Thaddeus Hunter Smith
  • Tom Trynin
  • Christi Van Cleve

» The Cap Park received the American Planning Association (APA) Special Award of Merit for Planning Excellence for Grassroots Initiative. This award was for an initiative that illustrates how a community utilized the planning process to address a need that extends beyond the traditional scope of planning. Emphasis is placed on the success of planning in new or different settings. Nominated projects should expand public understanding of the planning process. This could include such efforts as community policing or drug prevention, neighborhood outreach initiatives, programs designed for special populations, public art or cultural efforts, community festivals, environmental or conservation initiatives, summer recreational initiatives for children, or focused tourism ventures. (Corresponds to APA’s Grassroots Initiative Award)

» We received a letter from Caltrans supporting the Cap Park (please click here to view the letter)

» We went to Washington in conjunction with both the Hollywood and LA Chambers to meet with Government Officials – we received excellent support

» USC’s Graduate Architecture Program and its professor, Gerdo Aquino, used the Cap Park as its subject for their spring semester 2009 Landscape Architecture Masters Degree course. The students’ enthusiasm and creative energy were astounding and revealed interesting programming and architectural features. Student teams articulated three distinct landscape architecture plans. This summer, we will host a community-wide meeting to present their work. Stay tuned for details.

» Partners:

  • Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Senator Barbara Boxer
  • Senator Dianne Feinstein
  • Congressman Xavier Becerra
  • Congresswoman Diane Watson
  • LA City Council President Eric Garcetti
  • LA City Councilmember Tom LaBonge
  • Supervisor and Former Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas
  • Assembly Speaker Karen Bass
  • Assembly member Kevin De León
  • Assembly member Mike Feuer
  • Caltrans, CA Dept of Transportation
  • Los Angeles Department of Recreation & Parks
  • Community Redevelopment Agency, Los Angeles
  • Southern California Association of Governments
  • Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
  • Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
  • Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council
  • East Hollywood Neighborhood Council
  • Hollywood Entertainment District BID
  • Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council
  • Hollywood Studio Neighborhood Council/li>
  • Hollywood United Neighborhood Council
  • Sunset & Vine BID

Private Companies

  • ABS Development
  • Access IT
  • Alliance Residential Company
  • Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble, Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • Briggs Law Office
  • Clarett Group
  • Cooper Family Foundation
  • First Financial Bancorp
  • Gatehouse Capital
  • Legacy Partners
  • Madison Capital Ventures
  • Paramount Studios
  • Safran & Associates
  • Selma Avenue Hotel
  • Xerxes Studios