A presentation to the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission offers a closer look at plans from the Port of Los Angeles to incorporate vacant industrial land into a growing waterfront park space for Wilmington.

The Avalon Pedestrian Bridge and Promenade Gateway project, expected to cost more than $80 million, is slated for an approximately 12-acre site along both sides of Avalon Boulevard to the south of Harry Bridges Boulevard. The new green space would feed into the adjoining Wilmington Waterfront Promenade, a nine-acre park also built by the Port of Los Angeles that opened in early 2024.

Rendering of Avalon Pedestrian Bridge and Promenade GatewayT.Y. Lin International

Visitors would enter the park through an entry plaza at Harry Bridges Boulevard, consisting of a hardscape area centered on an artistic sundial that could also be used for public gatherings. Pedestrians would then be steered south along the namesake promenade of the project, as well as a historic walk lined with palm trees. 

The second signature element of the project, the Avalon Pedestrian Bridge, would be used to cross a heavy rail corridor that bisects the site. Renderings show a modern concrete span with landscaping and seating at the center. The Port of Los Angeles secured $5 million from the federal government last year for the construction of the 400-foot-long bridge.

Plans also show picnic areas, parking facilities, and playgrounds scattered across the site.

Picnic areaT.Y. Lin International

T.Y. Lin International is designing the bridge and promenade.

The Port of Los Angeles has spent heavily on open space in the Wilmington and San Pedro communities in recent years, including the second and final phase of the San Pedro waterfront promenade. These projects may serve as an entree to a larger master plan for open space in and around the Port of Los Angeles, which envisions the construction of additional streetscape improvements and parks over the coming decades.

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