Walking tour of the Grand Park at the Los Angeles Civic Center in Downtown Los Angeles California

Grand Park is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) park located in the civic center of Los Angeles, California. First developed in 1966 as the 'Civic Center Mall' with plazas, fountains and a Court of Flags. It is now a part of the larger re-development known as the Grand Avenue Project, with its first phase having opened in July 2012. Grand Park is part of a joint venture by the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County. It was designed and built by the Los-Angeles-based multidisciplinary design firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios. Park programming and entertainment, security and upkeep are maintained by the nearby Los Angeles Music Center.

Grand Park stretches between the Los Angeles City Hall and the Los Angeles Music Center on Grand Avenue.[6] It is designed to be pedestrian friendly and connects Bunker Hill to the civic center. The park plans include tree-shaded sidewalks, drought-tolerant plants, an interactive fountain plaza, performance lawns and courtyards, plenty of street lights, movable park furniture, and kiosks to encourage the walking and exploration of the area. City officials and some visitors have compared Grand Park to other well-established urban parks such as New York's Central Park or San Francisco's Union Square.

The design of Grand Park has no smaller aim than to express the multicultural diversity of Los Angeles through landscape design and architecture. Grand Park creates an important link between important Los Angeles’ buildings and cultural icons — from City Hall, in the heart of downtown, all the way to Grand Avenue, connecting the Park with The Music Center, adjacent Disney Concert Hall, and the Broad Museum.

The park features a restored historic fountain and new interactive water feature, new lawns and gardens, a dog run, a playground, and a 2/3-mile pedestrian loop. A shallow splash pool and 79 programmable jets, along with colorful kaleidoscopic LED lighting, were added to the existing Arthur J. Will Fountain to encourage kids of all ages to jump in with both feet.

Custom site furniture was designed in a bright magenta that has come be known as “park pink,” playing a large role in defining the park’s identity. The furniture creates a community Southern California-backyard feeling with the inclusion of 26 freestanding benches, 41 wall-mounted benches, 120 café tables, and 240 café chairs.

To represent the many cultures that have settled in Los Angeles, Grand Park features species from each of the world’s six floristic kingdoms – Cape, Boreal, Neotropical, Paleotropical, Australian, and Antarctic. The unique environmental conditions in each of these regions favors different flora, but vegetation from all six kingdoms flourishes in L.A.’s climate of easy adaptation.

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