Spring Street Park Almost Ready for Start of Construction
Eric Richardson / blogdowntown
An excavator is used to dig into a former basement inside the Spring Street Park in November.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Ground was broken for the Historic Core's Spring Spring Park in October, but the first two months of work has offered little for Downtowners eager to see their new 0.7-acre green space take shape.
That should change in February or March, as the project leaves the demolition phase and enters construction.
On Wednesday, the city's Parks Commission will vote to approve final design for the park and put the job of constructing it out for bid. Those interested in doing the estimated $1.2 million worth of work then have until February 7, 2012, to respond.
Once construction starts, it should take roughly one year to turn the leveled site into the lawns, plazas and paths that were approved for the site last August.
Before that process could start, though, a demolition crew needed to remove construction debris and uncertified fill that has simply been paved over when the buildings once on the site were removed. That work is expected to finish early next year.
The Request for Proposals that the commission will consider on Wednesday includes one concession to fears that bids could come back too high, separating any sidewalk and tree well work in the public right-of-way into a "additive alternate" that the city can choose not to build if funds run low.
derblut on December 13, 2011, at 07:56PM – #1
Woot!
Zyr on December 16, 2011, at 10:44AM – #2
I like the way the FIDM park is run. It would be nice to have a park on this side of town without dogs and without homeless. I'm a dog owner and we all ready took over the park just up the street at the new Police station and the homeless all ready have Pershing Square. I love my dog but sometimes it's nice to lay on a lawn without sitting in dog waste or not finding a spot to relax because you have ten homeless people napping with newspaper and blankets strewn around them. I know they live here, but I do too and I pay taxes. I shouldn't have to move to the valley to get that. I used to go to Pershing and was attacked by some mentally unstable homeless guy. I also complained about all the drug dealing and the Security said they can't do anything about that. The homeless guy that attacked me is still at the park and so are the drug dealers.