A $25 million park project for the Santa Monica Civic Center is expected to start construction in 2012. Located in a vast lot across from Santa Monica High School, will be a one acre cultural and civic square for various events. The site's remaining six acres will be used to create a spacious open park and walkway. In addition, a mixed use housing development is expected in the future.
In a competition between firms including Gehry Partners, Peter Walker and Partners, Studio Works and SWA Group, the panel selected the New York based firm Field Operations. The firm was not selected directly by the City of Santa Monica but by a panel including USC's Architecture Dean Qingyun Ma, UC Santa Barbara's chancellor and campus architect Marc Fisher and landscape architect Ken Smith. Field Operations was chosen because it "offers an understanding of the connectivity of the park to its surroundings, its major circulation elements, and local horticultural imperatives, along with a focus on designing a signature civic park."
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