Growing the Park: 2009 Great Park Anniversary Event

July 11, 2009, Saturday

10:00 AM–4:00 PM, at the Preview Park Free Parking and Admission Driving Directions & Map Come celebrate the Great Park Anniversary! This year’s event, Growing the Park, will take visitors on a journey from the origins of our agricultural background to the military heritage of the Marine Corps Air Station to what the Great Park [...]

Walk for Lupus Now™ at the Orange County Great Park

Great Park is location for 2009 Orange County Walk for Lupus Now™

May 26, 2009 – IRVINE, California – Walk for Lupus Now™ at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, June 6, 2009. Walk for Lupus Now™, is the signature event of the Lupus Foundation of America, Inc., an event to raise essential funds to save lives from lupus, an autoimmune disease which affects more than [...]

Great Park Lands Two Vintage Aircraft

May 21, 2009 – IRVINE, California – The Orange County Great Park Board Corporation today approved the acquisition of two rare and historically significant aircraft for the future Great Park Aviation Heritage Museum — an N3N-3 Canary and an SNJ-5. The N3N-3 Canary is a 1942 World War II biplane used by the Navy and [...]

Hundreds of Veterans Give a Final Salute to El Toro Marine Corps Air Station

Bovis Lend Lease Wins $3.5 Million Contract

MAY 20, 2006 – IRVINE, California – Hundreds of Navy and Marine veterans returned to the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) today for a final salute before it is transformed into the Orange County Great Park. More than 750,000 veterans were stationed at El Toro MCAS since it was commissioned on March 17, [...]

Farm & Food Lab: Spring Harvest

The Farm & Food Lab’s second harvest has arrived! Crops of organic onions have been uprooted and are currently drying (a flavor enhancing and shelf-life improving process). 3,000 pounds of onions are planned to be packed and delivered to local food banks and in a few weeks the ground will again be tilled and planted [...]

Take a Walk in the Great Park to Benefit the Arthritis Foundation

Great Park is location for 2009 Orange County Arthritis Walk®

May 13, 2009 – IRVINE, California – Take a walk in the Great Park to benefit the Arthritis Foundation. The Orange County Great Park is the official site location for the 2009 Orange County Arthritis Walk® set to take place on Sunday, May 17th. The Arthritis Walk® is the Arthritis Foundation’s annual nationwide event to [...]

Cirque du Soleil Makes Great Park Official Touring Site

May 12, 2009 – IRVINE, California – Larry Agran, Chairman of the Orange County Great Park, announced today that Cirque du Soleil has agreed to make the Great Park the official Orange County site location of the Cirque du Soleil touring show Kooza in 2010. Kooza will perform under the blue and yellow Grand Chapiteau (big [...]

2009 OC Walk for Lupus Now

June 6, 2009, Saturday 10:00 AM, at the Great Park (Map) Walk for Lupus Now is a family-friendly event that raises funds to support the programs and services of the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA). The Orange County Walk for Lupus Now will take place on June 6, 2009 at the Orange County Great Park. [...]

2009 OC Arthritis Walk

May 17, 2009 (Saturday) 7:30 AM at the Great Park (Map) The Arthritis Walk® is the Arthritis Foundation’s annual nationwide signature event that raises funds and awareness to fight arthritis, the nation’s most common cause of disability. The Arthritis Walk® kicks off in May during National Arthritis Month in more than 300 communities nationwide to [...]

2009 ASLA Professional Honor Award for General Design

American Society of Landscape Architects (National)

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), founded in 1899, is the national professional association representing landscape architects. ASLA has more than 18,000 members and 48 chapters, representing all 50 states, US territories, and 42 countries around the world. ASLA promotes the landscape architecture profession and advances the practice through advocacy, education, communication, and fellowship. [...]