Pershing Square Invites Downtown Residents to Enjoy Concrete, Police Tape

I agree, and I’m sick of that crap. I’ve complained by email to Parks and Rec, but I’m not even sure if PSq is one of their parks.

Someone on another forum suggested maybe they were working on the lawn, but I don’t think that’s the case. It doesn’t take that long to make grass grow. In fact, I’d say the best way to grow grass is to get rid of the damn concrete!!!

I wish whoever controls that block would return the name to the original – Central Park. Then maybe we would realize how carelessly we’ve treated this precious piece of land in the middle of our city.

Wrong date dude! it is June 3rd

It looks like it’s roped off for now because new grass was being re-planted. Looks like new sod too. Maybe just trying to keep it the high traffic areas crisp for now.

Eric, why don’t you do some sleuthing and ask someone in city government why there’s all that yellow tape strung about parts of the park. Methinks it’s for security and maintenance purposes, perhaps to keep winos from peeing and dropping turds all over the place, and pushers from using and selling drugs?

Pershing Square gets my vote for oddest building downtown. It’s a text-book example of design gone wrong. The tape is probably there to acknowledge that the park is just plain ‘broken’.

You could start a new list of places downtown where the auto has had the worst influence. Pershing Square would top that list, too.

Pershing Square gets my vote for Butt-Ugliest park in Los Angeles. Whoever approved the color scheme and the “sculpture” pieces should have their head examined. Every time I walk up Hill Street to get to the subway station, I cringe at the sight of it.

The architect says he chose the color scheme to acknowledge the Mexican influence in L.A.. By that logic I should ride to work every day on a burro wearing a 10-gallon sombrero shooting my pistolas into the air.

I am an American of Mexican descent. Painting a park yellow and purple is an absurd invocation of cultural influences that borders on racist parody. I don’t remember any parks so ugly in Mexico City. Painting a park yellow and purple simply invokes tackiness, nothing more.

You may wish to contact Rec and Parks main number: (213) 928-9200, or touch base with Jane Kolb the blogging Rec and Parks PIO for some insight and to determine how best to voice your frustration. She publishes her contact information on the blog. While remembering that Jane may be a point person but is not a punching bag, the LA Department of Recreation and Parks has a Civilian Board of Commissioners who are in charge. Their meetings are open to the public.

Brian

I wrote an email to Louise Capone (email: pershing.square@lacity.org), and received the canned response:

“Thank you so much for your interest in Pershing Square. We look forward to seeing you this summer during our concert season.”

yeah, this event was a lot of fun. the 90 degree heat really made downtown’s concrete park a joy to behold.