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The Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex, previously known as the Rancho Cienega Recreation Center, is a multibuilding sports complex in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles. [1] The complex is named after Michelle and Barack Obama , where Barack Obama held a rally at the center in 2007. [ 2 ]
Baldwin Village was developed in the early 1940s and 1950s by architect Clarence Stein, as an apartment complex for young families.Baldwin Village is occasionally called "The Jungles" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage (such as palms, banana trees and begonias) that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar apartment buildings. [3]
Rancho Park is a residential neighborhood in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California with mostly single family homes and tree lined streets. The community is nestled between West Los Angeles and Cheviot Hills. This enclave draws young professionals and families and is home to residents working in a variety of professional occupations.
After Sawtelle merged with Los Angeles, Carthage became 112th street. In 1925, it was officially renamed Stoner Ave. after AJ Stoner, a pillar of the Sawtelle community, as a proprietor of a lumber business and the last president of the Sawtelle Chamber of Commerce and a key supporter of the annexation of Sawtelle into Los Angeles.
The park is managed by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. [1] As one of the largest urban parks and regional open spaces in the Greater Los Angeles Area, many have called it "L.A.'s Central Park". [2] The 401-acre (1.62 km 2) park was established in 1984. [3]
This List of largest houses in the Los Angeles metropolitan area includes 17 single-family residences that are known to equal or exceed 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2) of livable space within the main house.
It is named after Los Angeles Lakers star and activist Earvin "Magic" Johnson. A $80 million renovation of the park was completed in 2020, adding improvements like a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2 ) community events center, [ 1 ] playgrounds for kids and 300 new trees. [ 2 ] "
The area was purchased in 1909 by the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company. Los Angeles Times founder and publisher General Harrison Gray Otis invested in the company and also personally acquired 550 acres (2.2 km 2) in the center of modern-day Tarzana. [2]