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Preliminary Great Park Master Design Unveiled

Design Reflects Public Input

OCTOBER 12, 2006 – IRVINE, California – Great Park Design Studio Master Designer Ken Smith unveiled today the Preliminary Master Design of the Orange County Great Park to its Board of Directors. The Preliminary Design includes ideas presented directly to the Great Park Design Studio from community members who participated in a variety of public focus [...]

Great Park Directors Applaud Proposed Enhancements to Development Plan

Orange County Great Park & Heritage Fields, June, 2006

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 – IRVINE, California – Directors of the Orange County Great Park Corporation responded enthusiastically to Heritage Fields, LLC’s, conceptual proposal to build a bigger, better, faster Great Park after receiving Heritage Fields presentation at its board meeting yesterday. The new proposal would give an additional 402 acres of publicly owned land to the [...]

Great Park Design Team Invites Public to Comment on Great Park Plan

The Orange County Great Park Corporation and the Great Park Design Team, which includes the architects and landscape designers who are creating the Great Park, are conducting a series of stakeholder meetings seeking public comment on the Great Park conceptual plan before it becomes a finalized master plan in August of this year. Beginning July [...]

The Great Picture Making the World’s Largest Camera & Photograph

Orange County Great Park & Heritage Fields, June, 2006

JUNE 8, 2006 – IRVINE, California – This month at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Irvine, California, six photographic artists are poised to embark on a unique and challenging project to create the world’s largest camera and photograph. They will transform a giant aircraft hangar into a pinhole camera, also known as [...]

Bovis Lend Lease to Oversee Construction of the Orange County Great Park

Bovis Lend Lease Wins $3.5 Million Contract

MARCH 24, 2006 – IRVINE, California – The Orange County Great Park Corporation Board of Directors at its meeting yesterday unanimously approved the selection of Bovis Lend Lease as program manager for the Orange County Great Park. Bovis Lend Lease will provide all the management services necessary to assist the Orange County Great Park Corporation in [...]

Orange County Great Park to Plant and Grow 50,000 Trees from Southern California Edison Partnership

MARCH 6, 2006 – IRVINE, California – The Orange County Great Park Corporation proudly announced today its multi-faceted public private partnership with Southern California Edison (SCE) at a special ceremony March 3, 2006. The collaboration will advance environmental stewardship and support sustainable development of the Orange County Great Park. The alliance includes the growing and replanting [...]

Southern California Edison to Donate 50,000 Trees to Great Park

The Orange County Great Park Corporation proudly announced its multi-faceted public-private partnership with Southern California Edison (SCE). The collaboration will advance environmental stewardship and support sustainable development of the Orange County Great Park. The alliance includes the growing and replanting of 50,000 trees throughout the Great Park”s 1,347-acre public area and the development of state-of-the-art [...]

Orange County Great Park Corporation Appoints Lieutenant Colonel William G. Kogerman USMC (ret.) to Serve on Great Park Board

The Orange County Great Park Corporation Board of Directors at its meeting today appointed Lieutenant Colonel William Kogerman USMC (ret.) to serve on the Orange County Great Park Board of directors. Lt. Col. Kogerman is a decorated combat aviator who flew missions from the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Base. Lt. Col. Kogerman also [...]

Ken Smith Landscape Architect of New York Selected as Master Designer in Orange County Great Park Competition

JANUARY 24, 2006 – IRVINE, California – The Orange County Great Park Corporation Board of Directors at its meeting yesterday, January 23rd, enthusiastically selected Ken Smith Landscape Architect of New York, a world renowned landscape design firm as Master Designer of the Orange County Great Park. Ken Smith, and his team, will be charged with the [...]

Three Architectural Design Firms Picked as Semi-Finalists in Orange County Great Park Competition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2005 – IRVINE, California – The Orange County Great Park Corporation Board of Directors at its meeting yesterday unanimously selected three world-renowned landscape design firms as semi-finalists to compete to be the Master Designer of the Orange County Great Park. The three firms selected as semi-finalists are Mirrales Tagliabue EMBT of Barcelona, Spain; Royston [...]