The reconnecting macarthur park project aims to reconnect macarthur park across wilshire blvd

This federal Project Grant award of $2,000,000 was made by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration under the Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) Discretionary Grant Program (CFDA 20.940). The grant funding will support the "Reconnecting MacArthur Park" project, which aims to reconnect MacArthur Park across Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The project will plan for the removal and redesign of transportation infrastructure to cede 1.7 acres of park land back to the local community, improve transit/bike/pedestrian connectivity, and create new open space in an underserved area. The grant will fund conceptual design for the community's preferred approach to reconnecting the park, with the goal of eventually securing additional construction funding to implement the planned improvements. The City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works is the primary grantee responsible for executing the planning phase of this project.

From alvarado ST. To carondelet ST., with the goal of ceding 1.7 acres of park land back to the local community, removing a high injury arterial adjacent to a high concentration of elementary schools, and creating new open space in the most park poor and disadvantaged areas of the city and US. This planning grant will fund conceptual design of the communitys preferred method for reconnecting macarthur park. This project aims to uniquely enhance the transit, bike and pedestrian connectivity for community members in the surrounding area to safely access schools, jobs, amenities and resources, create opportunities to improve their physical and mental health, and enhance the ability for users to visit the westlake and macarthur park community from across the region. Funding for construction is not yet secured and will be pursued using the planning grant deliverables.