Angelenos spread out their blankets and picnic lunches in the shade on lush, green grass…children romped on a shiny new playground…Turns dipped and darted over the lake…neighbors laughed and talked as they strolled… everyone oohed and ahhed over the pink and yellow Lotus blooms… On a sunny day in the middle of June, Echo Park Lake… READ MORE

Join Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti, elected city officials and representatives from the Departments of Public Works and Recreation and Parks to celebrate the grand re-opening of Echo Park Lake after a two-year rehabilitation project funded by the 2004 voter-approved Proposition O.  The City of Los Angeles began the Echo Park Lake Rehabilitation Project in 2011 to… READ MORE