Orange county has sweet plans for new park.Orange County, Calif., is well on its way to creating one of the country's largest urban parks. Ken Smith, the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. landscape architect responsible for the rooftop project on the Museum of Modern Art was selected as the master planner of the $401 million project, planned for site of the closed El Toro El To·ro An unincorporated community of southern California southeast of Santa Ana. Founded in the 1890s, it is mainly residential. Population: 62,685. Marine base. Smith's plan for the park includes a 70-feet deep canyon, stretching two miles across the park, with space for a lake, lodge, air museum and amphitheater. The park is at the center of a 3,700-acre development project undertaken by the Lennar Corporation Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN) is a Fortune 200[1] company based in Miami, Florida, United States. It was founded in 1954. Lennar is one of the United States' largest homebuilders, constructing homes in 18 different states throughout the United States, . Lennar bought the entire property last summer and transferred the proposed park section to the city of Irvine. The 1,300-acre park will dwarf Manhattan's 843-acre Central Park and the San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, 50 mi (80 km) long and from 3 to 13 mi (4.8–21 km) wide, W Calif.; entered through the Golden Gate, a strait between two peninsulas. Area's 1,017-acre Golden Gate Park This article is about the park in San Francisco. For the US National Recreation Area just north of there, see Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, is a large urban park. At 1017 acres (4.1 km², 1. . According to Orange County officials, the project, which could take decades, will be funded by fees and taxes derived from the surrounding home development. |
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