Fresh green native grass now growing on the shortened SMO runway for the first time in 75 years!

Members of the Airport2Park board presented at the Parks & Recreations meeting on Thursday October 11, 2018 on the many important ways that the incremental and on-going creation of a ‘Great Park’ at Santa Monica Airport will positively impact the quality of life for the entire city and surrounds.  These considerations are critical as the

The City is updating the 20 year Parks and Recreation Master Plan and is meeting with the community throughout the summer. This is a great opportunity for all of us to give the city input and to reinforce the future need to replace Santa Monica Airport with a Great Park when it closes in 2029.

What a year this was! We were just as surprised as you were when back in January the City of Santa Monica settled their long standing lawsuit with the FAA! The City entered into a Consent Degree which NULLIFIED the FAA’s claim the airport remain open forever and gave the City the right to close

172 acres of priceless land, occupied by an Airfield and Federal agencies for many years, now becoming a wonderful park for all. What does that make you think of? Whenever we talk about the wonders a new great park on our airport land will bring to the west side, there’s always some miserable naysayer who

Santa Monica is moving forward with the Santa Monica Airport Park Expansion. The 12 acres of the Airport Park Expansion currently being designed by noted park designer Mark Rios, has moved forward to the important Environmental Impact Report stage. The park design will include full size playing fields, pickle ball courts, community gardens, playgrounds, walking

The Santa Monica Airport2Park Foundation welcomes the news that the City of Santa Monica today officially opened (see here for details) a 6 acre parcel of land that was formally used as an airplane parking lot as an Interim Open Space for a wide range of unprogrammed recreational use until construction begins on the larger 12 acre

At the special City Council meeting last night, Council unanimously approved staff’s recommendation to move ahead swiftly with Option B (a centered layout) for the shortening and re-striping project to reduce the Santa Monica Airport runway from 5000′ to 3500′.  This option was the one overwhelmingly favored in public input on the matter.  In addition Council found that

The Trust for Public Land has released their long awaited report on “The Economic Benefits of the public park and recreation system in the City of Los Angeles, California” and it should come as no surprise that the economic benefits to our local economy of our parks and recreation system are worth BILLIONS of dollars

Coming on the heels of the recent historic agreement with the FAA and the announcement that the City of Santa Monica will close the Airport at the end of 2028, the new 12-Acre Airport Park Expansion moves forward with the Environmental Study. The Los Angeles architecture firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios is leading the project