Bicentennial Park Revitalization

Since the early 2000's, the City of Hawthorne locked the gates to the underutilized tennis courts at Bicentennial Park. Currently, FLTS is working with the City and the Trust for Public Land to convert this unused concrete space into a community-designed green space that will include play space for children and recreation activities for all ages.

Lennox Community Garden

Along with New Visions Foundation, Los Angeles County, and the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, FLTS will construct the first community garden in Lennox! The garden will host a variety of workshops and seminars on “plot-to-plate” concepts and creating multiple healthy meals with seasonal vegetables.
Slated to open its doors to the community in Spring 2012.

The DEEP

The Dominguez Enhancement & Engagement Project is a collaborative effort between the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, the Friends y Amigos of the Dominguez Watershed and FLTS. Based on community outreach and input from community members, FLTS will green 9,000 sq.ft. of barren right of way land into a beautiful native landscape with bicycle and pedestrian opportunities along the Dominguez Channel.

Lynwood Walking Park

Along with the City of Lynwood and the South Central Farmer's Health and Education Fund, FLTS will help convert 5.25 acres of vacant space into a community-designed walking park with the City's first historic interpretive opportunity. The walking park will be a multi-benefit project that will serve as a hub of connectivity for Lynwood and surrounding communities. The project will restore the landscape as it once was: a walkable, natural environment.

Larch Ave Park

Through comprehensive outreach in working with the City of Lawndale and the Trust for Public Land, community members provided their input on converting a unique 1.5 acre vacant lot into a community-designed parkspace. Based on the community’s vision, the space will have something for everyone, including an abundance of beautiful native trees, passive and active recreation activities, fitness equipment and dog-friendly.

Thank you to all who voted!!

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Viviana

Thank you to all who voted in the LA2050 grant competition. We think our project, as part of a larger framework to bring more nature back to urban LA, is an awesome approach to bring greenspace to communities now! Results are in May 8th, 2013!

We were very serious when we said asked people to imagine , a Los Angeles with a large system of parks, gardens, micro-spaces, plazitas, parklets, pedestrian walkways that lead to and from work, play and living spaces – in ALL communities.

And we are even more serious about how by taking simple ideologies of space, connectivity and landscape, we can do it.

We’re almost there!

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Viviana

Help us transform the way LA looks – greenspace does not have to be a luxury!
Vote to help win a $100k grant to create networks of greenspaces in the communities that need it most!

VOTE HERE!

A plan that would revolutionize LA Greenspace!

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Viviana

What if we adapted, or rather re-adapted, to our natural environment? What if we designed spaces in the City interacting with the local environment as a means to return pieces of Los Angeles back to natural space? As a means to make amends with our local, Los Angeles environment?

The first Angelenos were once referred to as “the People of the Earth”. Why not return to the past? Why not implement a proven way of life that reigned and prospered for centuries while inhabited by the first, original Angelenos: The Tongva?

From Lot to Spot firmly believes that creating more greenspace does not need to take years and costs millions – as is the standard in Los Angeles.

We have entered a competition that where the question was “ How would you use $100,000 to shape and build the future of Los Angeles? Via improving the environment.

FLTS and SWA have come up with what we think would be a crucial part of the solution to our ailing local environment:

to create a planning and implementation tool that will assist in creating simple, easy, cost-effective greenspaces all over Los Angeles.

Please read more at the link below and VOTE FOR US!!!! Together, we can make greenspace in EVERY community a reality.