Tongva Park in Santa Monica has brought nature, greenery, flowers, shade and water into the center of the city — a sensuous oasis that captures ocean breezes, mists and varied forms of weather. It's added value to the city, with adjacent mixed-use development and many surrounding hotels and buildings upgrading and re-branding.
What was once a large, flat parking lot opposite Santa Monica City Hall is now a garden paradise thriving as an ecologically smart community park, with hills, winding paths and a mix of drought-tolerant and native plants.
The roughly 6-acre oasis, which was one of six finalists for this year's prestigious Urban Land Institute global Award for Urban Open Space, was transformed by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations.
Wow-->>Urban Green Spaces Deluxe!
~Suzanne
