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Exciting news – The California Wildlife Conservation Board awarded County of Los Angeles, Department of Parks and Recreation a generous $12.5 million grant to bring our Puente Hills Landfill Park project to life! This grant will help turn our vision plan and community-driven design into the County’s first new regional park in 30 years and will fund the planting of native California plant communities throughout the park. Immense thank you to the Wildlife Conservation Board for realizing our vision of a Park for All! More about the grant program here: https://lnkd.in/gNvVG9xU #LACountyParks #PuenteHillsLandfillPark #Parks4All #CommunityRestoration

Join us for an insightful discussion on the Santa Ana River transformation hosted by ULI Orange County/Inland Empire! Studio-MLA Associate Principal, Matt Romero, will be part of an expert panel featuring Pamela Galera (City of Riverside), Mark E. Krebs P.E. (PACE Advanced Water Engineering), Christine Saunders (Christine Saunders Associates), and JJ Jimenez (City of Anaheim). Together, they will explore how projects like OC River Walk and Riverside Gateway are utilizing partnerships to enhance flood control, stormwater quality, water resiliency, wildlife habitat protection, and equitable access to parks and open spaces.   Date: June 27, 2024 Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PST Venue: The Stuffed Potato at Anaheim Packing House, 440 S. Anaheim Blvd Unit 112, Anaheim, CA 92805   Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the exciting ways public agencies, private stakeholders and the community are coming together to transform the Santa Ana River.   Register now at https://lnkd.in/g2j3WfZb   #StudioMLA #SantaAnaRiver #CommunityPartnerships #OCRiverwalk #Riverside #Anaheim #ULI

After 15 years of working on transforming the historic Hollywood Park Racetrack, Studio-MLA is thrilled to see SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park win a 2024 AIA Architecture Award! It was a pleasure working with HKS and the rest of the team on this monumental project! Congrats to all! #SoFiStadium #HollywoodPark #AIA24 #LandscapeArchitecture HKS, Inc., The Kroenke Group, David Evans and Associates, Inc., PACE Advanced Water Engineering, Legends, Labib Funk Associates, Henderson Engineers, Lam Partners, Fluidity Design Consultants, Walter P Moore, Turner Construction Company AECOM

We're excited for Studio-MLA Principal Kush Parekh, PLA to speak at the Green Sports Alliance Summit this Thursday! Attending? Join the breakout session at 11:25am for a discussion between a panel of experts on the inclusion of biodiversity in sport venues to create environmental and economic resilience in communities. https://lnkd.in/dNNAM2q #24GSASUMMIT #FasterTogether #StudioMLA

As part of LA County’s Measure W Safe Clean Water Program, Studio-MLA is working on the LA Sanitation & Environment project to rehabilitate MacArthur Park Lake to capture stormwater, enhance water quality, and create pleasant spaces for recreation, education and community gathering at the park. Below the surface, stormwater will be collected for treatment through a new pump system, diverting pollutants that would otherwise be headed towards Ballona Creek. Above the surface, a series of terraced aquatic wetlands will circulate lake water for filtering while creating a vibrant park space with educational signage for community to learn about the Safe Clean Water Program. Thanks for the feature, Urbanize LA! And shoutout to the amazing project team: Carollo Engineers, Craftwater Engineering, and Mujeres de la Tierra #LandscapeArchitecture #MacArthurParkRehabilitation #LASafeCleanWater

Proud to be part of the VOX at Cumulus team! 🏆 Congrats to Carmel Partners, TCA Architects, Inc., Psomas, DCI Engineers, House of Honey, and VCA Green for winning Best Mixed-Use Project and Best Multi-Family Community at the Pacific Coast Builders Conference (PCBC) 👏 #PCBCGoldNuggetAwards

Catch Studio-MLA’s President Mia Lehrer at the USGBC California Green Building Conference tomorrow! Mia will explore how nature-based solutions reshape our environmental interactions and transform urban challenges into opportunities for resilient development. She’ll focus on research-based strategies to sequester carbon, reduce urban heat effects, enhance biodiversity, and cleanse and celebrate stormwater through urban wetlands. Highlighting Studio-MLA projects like the Upper Los Angeles River & Tributaries Revitalization Plan, Vista Hermosa Natural Park, South Los Angeles Wetlands Park, and Puente Hills Landfill Park, she’ll demonstrate how repurposing brownfields and revitalizing underutilized open spaces into ecological hubs significantly enhances community economic values, health, well-being, and pride. Conference info and registration here: https://lnkd.in/gzzJ89gt #CAConference #CAGreenBuildingConference #StudioMLA #NatureBasedSolutions

Join us at our LA Studio on Thursday, May 23rd for a roundtable discussion on the new City of Los Angeles Landscape and Site Design Ordinance hosted by AIA Los Angeles. Released in April, the ordinance establishes standards that promote healthy, walkable communities and address pressing climate and public health needs. Los Angeles City Planning will provide a brief presentation of the ordinance, followed by a Q&A session. We're excited to dive into discussion about this new chapter for design in Los Angeles and how it will impact our work as landscape architects! Event info and registration here: https://lnkd.in/gQ6UPkiS #AIA #AIALA #StudioMLA #CityofLAPlanning #landscapearchitecture #urbandesign

We are thrilled about the groundbreaking of our park project in Southwest Fresno! Our collaboration with 2500 MLK, LLC, the City of Fresno, and the entire design team brings to life a a resilient community-driven vision as one of many Transform Fresno Greening Projects. Grateful for all involved in making this transformative project possible! #landscapearchitecture #urbandesign #resilientcommunities #fresno #advocacybydesign #studiomla

In the wake of the Outdoors for All Act's passage within the EXPLORE Act, we are at a pivotal moment where advocacy for expanded access to nature becomes a tangible reality. It's rewarding to see our work at Vista Hermosa Natural Park contribute to this vision. Thank you to #ASLAAdvocates for championing a future where nature unites us all! #ExploreAct #OutdoorsForAll 🌳🌆 More on this impactful legislation...