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Welcome to The Hollywood Freeway Central Park Official Website

homepage-01aThe Facts

  • More than 180,000 people, including 40,000 children live within just one mile of the proposed park
  • Hollywood has 0.005 acres of open space per resident as compared to 0.012 acres of open space within the City of Los Angeles and is one of the lowest resident-to-park space communities in California
  • Two-thirds of children in Los Angeles do not live near a park, playground, or other safe place to play. By comparison, New York City’s parks are much more equitably distributed with more than 91 percent of its children living within walking distance of a park
  • The median income for this one-mile area is $23,481—nearly half the region’s median income level. In addition, 75.2 percent of this one square-mile population is non-white minorities with 53.3 percent of Hispanic ethnicity
  • Existing park space is disproportionately concentrated in the region’s wealthy neighborhoods. As a result, Latino, African-American, and Asian Pacific Islander youth are dramatically less likely than their White counterparts to enjoy access to open space, playgrounds, and other exercise facilities

The Benefits

Community

  • Promotes equity
  • Provides green open space and recreational facilities to more than 40,000 children
  • Promotes public health and encourages active lifestyles
  • Reunites diverse communities and dense neighborhoods, separated for more than 50 years, by the Hollywood Freeway
  • Provides an exemplary illustration of efficient and innovative alternative land use
  • Strategies and outcomes serve as a national model for the creation of new green open space in a dense urban environment

Economy

  • Creates 45,000 direct and indirect jobs, including 30% entry level and apprenticeship programs and local hire
  • Provides an economic stimulus for investment in resource efficient infill development
  • Increases tourism

Energy and the Environment

  • Improves air quality and reduces global warming
  • Reduces automobile usage and fuel consumption, green house gas emissions and promotes energy efficiency and conservation
  • Creates a transit oriented development
  • Utilizes 21st Century cutting-edge environmental technologies

Infrastructure Improvements

  • Makes long-needed ramp improvements
  • Streamlines freeway functioning
  • Improves freeway overpasses

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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.

  • FHCP Board of Directors traveled to Washington DC, with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, to lobby for federal funding. Click here for briefing paper
  • Representative Xavier Becerra, CD 31, included the Hollywood Central Park in his FY 2011 appropriations list. Beacon Economics was retained to provide a preliminary study on the Hollywood Central Park’s potential return on investment. Click here to read the study.
  • Applied for a Prop 84 grant – determination will be made in Fall 2010
  • Met with Michael Miles, Caltrans District 7 director and Caltrans staff to refine EIR project description
  • For The Love of Hollywood Gala slated for Thursday, January 6, 2011 at Sunset Gower Studios Sponsorship opportunities and fact sheet coming soon
  • Launched Taste of Hollywood to take place on Sunday May 15, 2011 at Selma and Vine. Fact Sheet coming soon