A Look at the Orange County Great Park: Activities and Resource Information

I wanted to share these before and after pictures with everyone. Above is hangar 10 of the former El Toro Marine base as it is today. Below is hangar 10 as it was a short time ago. The transformed hangar 10 is the beginning of Lennar’s Main Street USA which will be in its Life Long Learning District. The Life Long Learning District is one of the three neighborhoods that Lennar has planned for the Orange County Great Park. The transformed hangar will also be part of Lennar’s participation in the Orange County Great Park third anniversary party, “The Festival of Flight” (see link below). The Orange County Great Park Corporation is hosting the event. The Great Park Conservancy will also participate. I hear free frisbees will be available at the Conservancy’s booth.

Great Park 2008 events will include:

• July 11: The Jewel of Orange County at the Great Park balloon site, includes cocktails, jewelry auction, alfresco dining, music of singer/songwriters Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings of Canadian Hall of Fame Band The Guess Who with special performance of hit songs of Bachman Turner Overdrive
• July 12: The Festival of Flight in the Preview Park, includes exhibits, activities, performances, food & beverage as well as the return of the free balloon rides
  
• August-September: Food and beverage at the Hangar Cafe (hangar 244), free day and night flights on the Great Park balloon, dancing on Friday evenings and performing arts on Saturday evenings at the Timeline Stage and Dance Floor
• August-October: Photography exhibition, oral history project

How to stay informed:

• Join the Great Park Corporation e-mail notification list.
• Join Lennar’s Great Parks Neighborhoods e-mail notification list.
• Watch the 2008 Orange County Great Park Board of Directors State of the Park (July 10 archives).
• Watch the Great Park board meetings.
• Read my Redfin blog. I will write Orange County Great Park updates, probably about once a month.

PHOTOS COURTESY LENNAR”S GREAT PARK NEIGHBORHOODS

For more information on the Orange County Great Park, see “Building the Orange County Great Park: Bring in the Revenue.”