Orange County Great Park
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The Orange County Great Park is an exciting project that has been generating interest, both nationally and around the globe.
This page was developed as a space for sharing those interesting media articles that report on the design and progress of the Orange County Great Park's development.
July 18, 2010
Resurrecting Great Park’s military heritage
By SEAN EMERY | THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER IRVINE – Great Park leaders are quietly laying the groundwork for a planned aviation museum through the acquisition and ongoing renovation of several historic airplanes, part of an effort to retain the heritage of the former military base turned central park. Sneak peaks at the Great Park’s [...]
April 19, 2010
Building the Great Park is no easy task
By SEAN EMERY | THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER IRVINE – With the kickoff to the first major round of Great Park construction only a few months away, park leaders are learning that it isn’t easy beginning to transform a stark military base into a world-class metropolitan park. Park officials over the past five months have [...]
March 1, 2010
A Living Landscape Laboratory
By CHRISTINE ROMBOUTS | LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT & SPECIFIER NEWS The Orange County Great Park is a significant economic energizer. A potentially powerful stimulus, it can provide a much needed lift to several segments of the regional economy from building to professional services to retail, according to Economic Research Associates, a leading economic research firm. The [...]
February 26, 2010
Cirque du Soleil’s Great Park run a success
By SEAN EMERY | THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER IRVINE – Great Park and Cirque du Soleil officials are celebrating what they say was a successful first-run for the world famous performance troupe at the park’s newly built festival site, with an estimated 100,000 tickets sold for four-dozen performances, and about $250,000 raised by the city [...]
February 9, 2010
Planting starts at $1.4 million Great Park farm
By SEAN EMERY | THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER IRVINE – Great Park farmers have begun “re-awakening” more than 100 acres of agricultural land, kicking off a wave of park development that will eventually bring sports fields, improved roadways and community gardens. Park workers over the last month have quite literally planted the seeds for a [...]
December 31, 2009
Cirque Du Soleil is momentum for Irvine’s Great Park
By CHRISTOPHER SMITH | THE LOS ANGELES TIMES The circus coming to town hasn’t been big news for decades, but there was an interesting wrinkle Wednesday, given where Cirque Du Soleil chose to pitch its tent in Orange County for a January run. Following a two-month stint in Santa Monica, the company’s new production “Kooza” [...]
December 30, 2009
Cirque du Soleil raises big top at Great Park
By SEAN EMERY | THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER IRVINE – Cirque du Soleil is busy turning an asphalt expanse at the Great Park into a bustling big top, as Irvine leaders welcome a touring production they hope will bring a wider audience to the developing park. About 80 workers on Wednesday braved rainy weather as [...]
December 30, 2009
New Cirque du Soleil show opens Friday in Irvine
By PAUL HODGINS | THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER “Kooza,” which opens Jan. 8 in Irvine’s Great Park, is Cirque du Soleil’s 19th production, but when you listen to Gilles Ste-Croix talk excitedly about his Quebec-based circus’ latest touring show, he makes it sound like his first. Ste-Croix, a former stilt-walker and Cirque’s cofounder, supervises its [...]
October 1, 2009
The Great Park Adds New Public Works Dimension to Irvine, CA
By CHRISTINE ROMBOUTS | AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE MAGAZINE Estimated to cost $1.4 Billion at completion, The Great Park will be one of the largest metropolitan parks created in the United States i the last 100 years and one of the largest public/private sustainable projects. Download the full article (PDF, 885 KB)
August 1, 2009
Regional Renaissance
By CHRISTINE ROUMBOUTS | PUBLIC WORKS MAGAZINE Web Extra For a list of the park’s sustainability goals, visit the article links page. Just as the Great Depression helped complete such famous California parks as Balboa Park in San Diego and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, one of the nation’s largest public projects under way today [...]
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