Designed by Kanner Architects, and remarkably the City of Los Angeles' FIRST LEED certified building, the Lafayette Park Recreation Center is opening at 625 South Lafayette Park Place, Los Angeles, 90057 on February 24 at 2:30 pm.


Designed by Kanner Architects, and remarkably the City of Los Angeles' FIRST LEED certified building, the Lafayette Park Recreation Center is opening at 625 South Lafayette Park Place, Los Angeles, 90057 on February 24 at 2:30 pm. The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony will be attended by the Mayor, the City of LA Department of Recreation and Parks, Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), The Everychild Foundation, and the LA Lakers (!), among others. If you'd like to attend, please RSVP to Elizabeth Curtis, ecurtis@heartofla.org.
From the press release:

"The Lafayette Park Recreation Center is a result of the historic public-private partnership between HOLA and the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks to transform Lafayette Park into a versatile campus that will provide exceptional academic, arts, recreation and athletic programs to the surrounding underserved community. The project materialized in response to demands by a growing neighborhood whose needs outgrew the existing 3,700 square foot senior center. In 2006, Mitch Moore, Founder of HOLA, Tony Brown, HOLA Executive Director and Jon Mukri, General Manager of the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, met to discuss their common interest: to create a model public-private partnership to build out and sustain parks and recreation centers in underserved areas. The location for this ambitious project was Lafayette Park in the heart of LA's Rampart District. From that meeting spawned an idea: since both organizations were serving the same population, HOLA and the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks would come together to transform the park into something that would invigorate the neighborhood and improve the lives of its residents."