URBANIZE The project will span more than 1,300 acres when completed! A groundbreaking ceremony held on May 23 marked the start of work on a major expansion of the Great Park in Irvine. The Great Park Framework Plan, as [...]
VOICE OF OC Irvine will not be moving forward with a veterans cemetery at the Great Park after city council members again voted against the idea, with a slim majority saying it was a project better left in [...]
DAILY PILOT Despite a light drizzle Tuesday, many Irvine community members spent the afternoon at the Great Park for the 2025 “State of the Great Park” event. The City of Irvine and the Great Park Board invited neighbors [...]
Nestled within the expansive Orange County Great Park in Irvine, the proposed Great Park Botanical Garden is poised to be a stunning 59-acre sanctuary where nature, education, and community converge. What Makes This Garden Special From the [...]
Download the beautiful preview Great Park Development News Exciting developments are underway at the Great Park in Irvine, California, as plans for the much-anticipated Botanical Garden take shape. Over the past six months, significant progress has been [...]
THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER Seventeen years after Ken Smith Workshop’s master plan for Irvine, California’s Great Park was approved, an updated scheme will envision a new era for the park. SWA Group’s Laguna Beach studio has released its plans for the 1,200-acre Orange [...]
Your Voice Can Help Bring a GREAT Botanical Garden to the Great Park! Thanks to the collective voices of the Great Park Garden Coalition supporters, a botanical garden at the Great Park has now gained the support of the Great [...]
The Irvine City Council just voted unanimously for staff to return with recommendations for ... drum roll please... "A NOT LESS THAN 75 ACRE site for a Botanical Garden" at the Great Park in Irvine! They also included provisions for an RFP, plus a [...]
At their next scheduled meeting, City of Irvine Great Park Board of Directors will discuss... “CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST BY DIRECTOR KIM AND DIRECTOR CARROLL TO DISCUSS A BOTANICAL GARDEN IN OR NEAR THE GREAT PARK” (Item 2.5 on published [...]
Adapting to new safety protocols took a tremendous effort, but the silver lining for public gardens this past year was the greatly increased recognition of the essential value and benefit of experiences of the natural world. In fact, visitors not [...]
