Official updates on the progress of the Great Park
The Coalition is collaborating with Cal Poly Pomona Department of Landscape Architecture on a cool student learning project. Students from this diverse and highly respected program will apply the foundational elements they’ve been taught in a studio design course using [...]
The Great Park is seeking paid sponsorships for elements of the park. At the last Great Park meeting, Garden Coalition board member Mike Stockstill asked the board and staff to consider seeking sponsorships for elements of the future public garden [...]
As 2019 comes to a close, we have a lot to celebrate! The culmination of almost three years of public advocacy to keep a botanical garden at the Great Park resulted in the identification of a site for the Great [...]
Festival Reaps a Growing Interest in Great Park Botanical Garden The Irvine Global Village Festival celebrated its 18th year, Oct. 12-13, 2019, with more food, art, and entertainment than ever. The Festival has expanded in scale and offerings over the [...]
At Tuesday’s Orange County Great Park Board Meeting, the park development update unveiled a proposed 40-acre site for the future Great Park Botanical Garden. We are so excited. Next step is to meet with city staff and draft an Exclusive [...]
Recent reports that City of Hope will build a world-class campus for a comprehensive cancer treatment and research center in the Great Park Neighborhoods is Great News for all of us who have been touched by cancer. As an independent [...]
Here at the Great Park Garden Coalition, we are always on the lookout for change and current happenings in our community. Change is constant. With the elections and holidays behind us, the GPGC is getting in gear for the year. [...]
The Coalition applauds the Great Park Board’s unanimous vote to transfer operation of the Farm + Food Lab to Solutions for Urban Agriculture. The Board approved the transfer at their Nov. 27, 2018 meeting and also voted to “transfer $76,872 [...]
Great Park Garden Coalition’s goal is to preserve the future 59-acre Botanical Garden included in the 2007 approved Great Park Master Plan. The Master Plan is being re-evaluated by the City of Irvine. In October 2017 the City and FivePoint [...]
Four leaders of the Great Park Garden Coalition attended the annual conference of the American Public Garden Association (APGA), June 4-8, 2018, at Disneyland Hotel. Garden CEOs, landscape architects, university professors, and professional horticulturists from across the country could not [...]
