{"id":1351,"date":"2014-09-12T15:26:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:49:07","slug":"pershing-squarenew-announcement-and-john-parkinson-walking-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2014\/09\/12\/pershing-squarenew-announcement-and-john-parkinson-walking-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Pershing SquaReNew Announcement and John Parkinson walking tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/restorepershingsquare.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Pershing Square Restoration Society<\/a> invites you to attend an announcement from Councilman Jose Huizar and the Department of Recreation and Parks about a proposed new direction for Pershing Square and the former Pershing Square Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, the Pershing Square Task Force was formed with the intent of &#8220;Re-Envisioning&#8221; the historic park. Public response has overwhelmingly supported a different model: the restoration of the 1910 John Parkinson landscape design that was demolished in 1951 to put in underground parking. More than 1500 people have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/mayor-garcetti-la-city-council-recreation-and-parks-don-t-re-envision-pershing-square-restore-pershing-square\" target=\"_blank\">signed the petition<\/a> asking for restoration and the campaign has been <a href=\"http:\/\/restorepershingsquare.blogspot.com\/p\/press-clips.html\" target=\"_blank\">prominently covered<\/a> by <em>The Los Angeles Times, Which Way LA? <\/em>and&nbsp;Curbed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently in response to the popular support for restoration, the Pershing Square Task Force has changed its name to Pershing SquaReNew, and announced a new mission statement. It is now identified as &#8220;a non-profit dedicated to supporting and facilitating the park&#8217;s revitalization&#8211;along with a number of efforts that will not only <strong>restore Pershing Square<\/strong>, but place Los Angeles on the map of inspiring, world-class public spaces.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please join social historians Kim Cooper and Richard Schave (LAVA, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esotouric.com\" target=\"_blank\">Esotouric<\/a>) at Pershing Square to hear what sort of restoration Pershing SquaReNew is proposing. (<span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;\">Sorry, author&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bubble1-20\/detail\/1626400083\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Gee<\/a>&nbsp;will not be able to attend.)&nbsp;After the announcement, these principals of the Pershing Square Restoration Society will lead a free walking tour of nearby John Parkinson buildings, including those around his namesake Square. All are welcome&#8211;please spread the word!<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1351\" data-postid=\"1351\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1351 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pershing Square Restoration Society invites you to attend an announcement from Councilman Jose Huizar and the Department of Recreation and Parks about a proposed new direction for Pershing Square and the former Pershing Square Task Force. In 2013, the Pershing Square Task Force was formed with the intent of &#8220;Re-Envisioning&#8221; the historic park. Public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,55,13,14,15,18,20,22,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}