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Hollywood plots freeway coverup
Leaders push a plan to enclose half a mile of the roadway in a tunnel and place a greenbelt on top.
In a town built on make-believe, Hollywood leaders are hoping to pull off the greatest feat yet: creating a public park out of thin air. Civic and business organizers want to turn a half-mile portion of the Hollywood Freeway into a tunnel and construct a 24-acre greenbelt swath from Bronson Avenue to Wilton Place on top.Those proposing what they call Hollywood Central Park will reveal preliminary details tonight when leaders of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency meet with local business executives in an effort to raise $120,000 for a project feasibility study.
When the study is completed, local leaders say, they will be able to seek federal funding for the estimated $209 million that the freeway retrofit and park construction could cost.Backers say other densely populated U.S. cities have undertaken similar projects to carve out hard-to-find recreation space.
tagged highway transportation park open_space los_angeles downtown_freeway freeway city_planning
by jn
...on 03-NOV-06