In the unincorporated community of Westmont, work has quietly commenced for a new pocket park on a long-vacant lot.
The new 95th & Normandie Pocket Park, is named for its location at the southwest corner of the intersection of 95th Street and Normandie Avenue. Plans call for transforming the roughly .16-acre property with the addition of a new shade structure, a garden, public art, landscaping, parking, and room for a mobile recreation program.
The new neighborhood park was funded through a nearly $1.3-million Proposition 68 grant awarded in 2020 by the State of California, as well as $650,000 in local funding allocated to the L.A. Neighborhood Land Trust for the project in 2018.
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Writing for ParkandRecBusiness.com, L.A. County Parks and Recreation Departmental Facilities Planer Clement Lau notes that the new project will increase the percentage of residents in Westmont who live within a 10-minute walk of a park from 57 percent to 74 percent. That amounts to an additional 5,700 residents within walking distance.
"The transformation of this overgrown and forgotten corner at a busy intersection into a lively and beautiful space for rest, play, socializing, and exercise will positively impact the quality of life for Westmont residents," wrote Lau.
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