The well-used Grand Park that was transformed from a concrete wasteland in between LA County and City buildings to a recreational green space in 2012 is getting a new name.
Gloria Molina, the first Latina elected to the LA County Board of Supervisors in 1991, speaks at a November 2010 dedication at Sorensen Library in Whittier. Molina, now 74, has announced that she is battling terminal cancer.
Grand Park was the brain child of Supervisor Molina and was a joint venture with the city and the county. It stretches from The Music Center to Los Angeles City Hall and has become a popular gathering place.Molina was credited with convincing a developer in the mid-2000s to put up $50 million toward the park as part of approval of a development project on Grand Avenue.
The supervisors said it was appropriate to name the park after Molina because of her tenacious efforts to get it funded and oversee the transformation from an unremarkable, concrete space into the crown jewel of county and city parks. Miguel Bellows, 3, of Silver Lake, plays in Grand Parks’ fountain in Los Angeles on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 as Central California gets hit with another heat wave. . Also LA City Council member Monica Rodriguez introduced a motion to support the re-naming of the park, as well as renaming park crosswalks after the former supervisor.
Although the two didn’t always see eye to eye on county matters, Yaroslavsky said he respected the way his colleague conducted herself. “She was honest. She had integrity. You knew where she stood. And her agenda was always the people of the county.”
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