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30-536: Grand Park stretches between the Los Angeles City Hall and the Los Angeles Music Center on Grand Avenue . 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

60-502: A magnitude 8.2 earthquake including permitting it to sway in a quake. Prior to the completion of the current structure, the L.A. City Council utilized various other buildings: The Mayor of Los Angeles has an office in room 300. Every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10:00 am, the Los Angeles City Council meets in its chamber. An observation level is open to the public on the 27th floor. This floor's interior comprises

90-485: A postal divider between north and south and is one of a few streets to run across the Los Angeles River. Though it serves as a major road east of downtown Los Angeles , it is a mostly residential street to the west. For over a mile between Hoover Street and Glendale Boulevard , 1st Street is synonymous with Beverly Boulevard . The E Line runs on east 1st Street between Alameda and Indiana Streets; it operates

120-469: A rally at the park that was attended by around 10,000 Armenian Americans . On July 4, 2023, due to restrictions on fireworks in Downtown Los Angeles , Gloria Molina Grand Park began hosting drone shows as part of their 4th of July Block Party . Since then, Grizzly Drones has been the company responsible for performing these drone shows. During the 2028 Summer Olympics the park will serve as

150-524: A single large and highly vaulted room distinguished by the iconic tall square columns that are far more familiar as one of the building's most distinguishing exterior features. As this ample interior space is named, the Mayor Tom Bradley Room is used for ceremonies and other special occasions. City Hall and the adjacent federal, state, and county buildings are served by the Civic Center station on

180-467: A venue for the marathon, race walk and road cycling. Los Angeles City Hall Los Angeles City Hall , completed in 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles , California , and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council . It is located in the Civic Center district of downtown Los Angeles in the city block bounded by Main , Temple , First , and Spring streets, which

210-562: Is in collaboration with The LA Music Center . It is intended to become an annual celebration, with the hope that it would rival other major cities' festivities in years to come. So much so they added fireworks in 2015-16 celebration. By the sixth annual (2018–19) event, Grand Park + The Music Center's N.Y.E.L.A. drew over 50,000 guests. Doubling its inaugural event attendance. Aloe Blacc was the featured artist in 2018–19. On August 30–31, 2014, Jay Z 's Labor Day Made in America Festival

240-692: Is located in the South Plaza of the Los Angeles Mall , a sunken, multi-level series of open spaces and retail space on the east side of Main Street straddling Temple Street. It is an 18-story, Brutalist , 1972 building by Stanton & Stockwell , featuring a mural by Millard Sheets , The Family of Man . 1st Street (Los Angeles) 1st Street is an east–west thoroughfare in Los Angeles , East Los Angeles , and Monterey Park, California . It serves as

270-702: Is provided by the Music Center's security department, and law enforcement services by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department . In 2014, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved funding of $ 1 million for an independent nonprofit group, the Grand Park Foundation. By virtue of the mostly sunny weather, the park also features programs year-round. In 2012, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors allocated $ 3.3 million for

300-399: Is the tallest base-isolated structure in the world, having undergone a seismic retrofit from 1998 to 2001, so that the building will sustain minimal damage and remain functional after a magnitude 8.2 earthquake . The concrete in its tower was made with sand from each of California 's 58 counties and water from its 21 historical missions . City Hall's distinctive tower was modelled after

330-640: The Golden Age of Hollywood . City Hall South at 111 E. First Street, on the north side of First Street between Los Angeles and Main streets, built in 1952-4, architects Lunden, Hayward & O'Connor, International Style , originally opened as the City Health Building, housing health offices, clinics, and labs, and a central utility plant that heated City Hall proper and Parker Center (then police headquarters). James K. Hahn City Hall East , 200 N. Main St.,

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360-543: The Little Tokyo/Arts District , Pico/Aliso , Mariachi Plaza , Soto and Indiana stations. Metro Local line 14 runs through west 1st Street and Metro Local line 106 through East 1st Street. There's also another Metro Rail station at Hill Street which is Civic Center/Grand Park , served by Metro's B and D lines. First Street was a location background filmed during the movie Blood In Blood Out (originally: Bound by Honor ). The First Street bridge

390-550: The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus , one of the seven wonders of the ancient world , and shows the influence of the Los Angeles Public Library , completed shortly before the structure was begun. An image of City Hall has been on Los Angeles Police Department badges since 1940. A City Council ordinance passed in 1905 did not permit any new construction to be taller than 13 stories or 150 ft (46 m) in order to keep

420-637: The Metro B and D subway lines and the Historic Broadway station on the Metro A and E light rail lines. The J Line stops in front of the building. The Los Angeles Dodgers wore a commemorative uniform patch during the 2018 season celebrating 60 years in the city depicting a logo of Los Angeles City Hall. The building has been featured in the following popular movies and television shows. It also appears incidentally as an icon of officialdom in many movies from

450-492: The 22nd floor transition to the Gold 22 thru 26 elevator bank. Finally once on the 26th floor, access to the 27th can be reached by stairs or one more elevator. Public restrooms are located on the 3rd and 26th floor. The building was designed by John Parkinson , John C. Austin , and Albert C. Martin, Sr. , and was completed in 1928. Dedication ceremonies were held on April 26, 1928. It has 32 floors and, at 454 feet (138 m) high,

480-638: The Viaduct Bond Act, which would allocate $ 2 million through a tax, and the funds allocated would go toward revitalizing the Downtown Los Angeles bridges. The friends of the Los Angeles River mobilized the La Gran Limpieza to clean up the Los Angeles River with an educational feature where they invited elementary, middle, and high school students. A collaboration the friends of the Los Angeles had

510-498: The backdrop of Los Angeles City Hall. During the first six months, Grand Park hosted about 40 events. Some were bids for a mass audience, while others aimed to grab passers-by. The Community Terrace features a large picnic table and lawn area for gatherings and viewing visuals projected on nearby wall of the Hall of Records. Open lawn space can be used for major public events such as New Year's Eve celebrations and festivals. Direct access to

540-442: The city's architecture harmonious. City Hall's 454 ft (138 m) height was deemed exempt as a public building and assured that no building would surpass one third its height for over three decades until the ordinance was repealed by voter referendum in 1957. Therefore, from its completion in 1928 until finally surpassed by the topping off of Union Bank Plaza in 1966, City Hall was the tallest building in Los Angeles and shared

570-477: The county and city finally accomplished that goal with a centralized park in 1957. The park was completed as "Civic Center Mall" in 1966. Re-development of Grand Park began in 2010 at a cost of $ 56 million. $ 50 million provided by Related Companies, the developer planning the nearby Grand Avenue Project . The parks later phase includes a Frank Gehry-designed mixed-use development. Due to the Great Recession in

600-461: The early 2010s , the development was pushed back, commencing construction in 2019. Other phases of the project remained stalled, but the park and grand avenue project moved forward thanks to a special agreement between the joint powers authority overseeing the project and its developer. On March 21, 2023, supervisor Hilda Solis introduced a motion to rename Grand Park to Gloria Molina Grand Park, honoring supervisor Gloria Molina 's contributions for

630-635: The first year's operations, mainly to cover logistics such as security and maintenance, with $ 100,000 for programming. Events will be coordinated by the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County , which also oversees the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion , Ahmanson Theatre , Mark Taper Forum and the Walt Disney Concert Hall . The inaugural event featured Bandaloop, a professed vertical dance company of aerialists, performing against

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660-660: The park is available on the Los Angeles Metro B and D lines at Civic Center/Grand Park station . The park is also accessible via the J Line's 1st Street / Hill Street stop, or its Spring Street/City Hall stop. Several local , rapid and express Metro bus routes also share the same 1st Street/Hill Street stop at the civic center. The park is host to the United States' "west coast flagship" New Year's Eve celebration. Los Angeles' first free major public New Year's celebration, shortened to "N.Y.E.L.A.". The first edition

690-520: The park's redevelopment after Molina's announcement of terminal cancer. It was approved unanimously by the Board of Supervisors the day it was introduced. A motion to endorse the renaming passing in the Los Angeles City Council , with Mayor Karen Bass also endorsing it. The Los Angeles Music Center 's contract to operate Grand Park is expected to run until mid-2017; in addition, it earns in rents and fees charged to concessionaires and others. Routine security

720-570: The pyramid at the top of the building is an airplane beacon named in honor of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, the Lindbergh Beacon . Circa 1939, there was an art gallery, in Room 351 on the third floor, that exhibited paintings by California artists. The building was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1976. In 1998 the building was closed during a total $ 135 million refurbishment which also included upgrading it so it could withstand

750-527: The skyline with only a few structures such as the Continental Building , the only property built taller than 150 feet prior to the ordinance, and the Richfield Tower and Eastern Columbia Building , which exceeded the ordinance through a loophole allowing for decorative towers. City Hall has an observation deck , free to the public and open Monday through Friday during business hours. The peak of

780-515: 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 . First proposed as a park by landscape architect Charles Mulford Robinson in 1907 inspired by the City Beautiful movement, but was never developed. After years of proposing the clustering of Los Angeles County government buildings in one place,

810-416: Was held December 31, 2013 – January 1, 2014. The first event, which included food trucks, art installations, light shows, concert stages, drew an estimated 25,000 spectators. Every year since, at 11:55 p.m., a light projection show is displayed onto the side of Los Angeles City Hall and other municipal buildings, displaying visual art before ultimately counting down to midnight with the crowd. The art

840-622: Was held in Grand Park featuring, Imagine Dragons , John Mayer , Kanye West , and many other performers. An Armenian genocide memorial opened in September 2016. The music video for " Play That Song " by Train was partly filmed in front of the Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain , as was the 2003 Miller Lite commercials "Catfight" and the films Pretty Woman and 500 Days of Summer . On September 22, 2019, Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held

870-470: Was the heart of the city's central business district during the 1880s and 1890s . The Observation Deck or Tom Bradley Tower located on the 27th floor is open to the public. Access to City Hall is located off of Main St. The rotunda is located on the 3rd floor accessible by all elevators. To access the Tom Bradley Tower requires the “Express Car Only” for floors 1, 3, and 10 through 22 elevators. Once on

900-401: Was used as the backdrop for Welsh rock band Lostprophets ’ second album Start Something in 2004. Walking through these historic bridges in Downtown Los Angeles from 1910 to the 1930s had been a leisure and pastime for some people. In the book Down by the Los Angeles River , written by Joe Linton, the author narrates a walking path starting from First Street Bridge. LA voters in 1924 passed

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