Is the Port of Los Angeles trying to be hip?
A year after sponsoring a fashion show in downtown Los Angeles, the city's harbor department says it's itching to spend $6.6 million on new waterfront art and green space projects created by local residents.
It seems somewhere deep in the bowels of the fortress-like Harbor Department HQ on S. Palos Verdes St., a panel of straight-laced, number-crunching port authorities were having trouble finding, designing and/or placing waterfront art pieces, open spaces, innovative landscape designs, etc. - and so they're now reaching out to the creative souls of San Pedro for help.
(On a side note, I pitched a plan to spend the $6.6M renovating my "harbor-area" apartment with a rooftop garden and giant treehouse - all for the benefit of my lovely neighbors - but the suggestion was politely rebuffed.)
Now it's up to you, creative people of San Pedro. Don't let us down.
Anyone with a bright idea is urged to contact Teresa Scognamillo at (310) 732-3057 or tscognamillo@portla.org. To learn more, visit www.portofla.org.
On a related note, port officials are holding their last tree giveaway of 2008 at 10 a.m. Saturday at Neptune Park, C Street and Neptune Avenue in Wilmington. There's two trees availabe per family, and varieties include persimmon, tangerine, King Palm, purple orchid, and European white birch. Sure, you'll be helping clean the air, cut down on cooling costs and save the environment, but the best part is, the trees are freeeeee!!!
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