Gruber: Turning Santa Monica Airport into a Park...Let’s Not Bite Off More Than We Can Chew

Planning a park at Santa Monica Airport: keep it real

As I discussed in my post on Monday, the process for planning the conversion of Santa Monica Airport into a park has produced three aspirational “scenarios.” While no one would expect or desire that Sasaki, the park designers hired by the City, would have by now a definitive plan, so far the process has not generated plans that would likely be built in the five, or 10, or even 15 or 20 years, after the airport closes Jan. 1, 2029. The upshot of …

Gruber: Turning Santa Monica Airport into a Park...Let’s Not Bite Off More Than We Can Chew

The following article first appeared on The Healthy City Local. Santa Monica Airport is set to close December 31, 2028, and the City’s process to reclaim the city-owned land at the airport and convert it to public use as a great park, the “Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project“, is underway. Sasaki, the consultants hired by […] The post Gruber: Turning Santa Monica Airport into a Park…Let’s Not Bite Off More Than We Can Chew first appeared on …