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Santa Monica will honor its historic Black community in a virtual event on Feb. 28. (Courtesy of the City of Santa Monica)
SANTA MONICA, CA The City of Santa Monica will host a virtual grand opening celebration to unveil Historic Belmar Park, Santa Monica s newest open space on Feb. 28 at 3 p.m.
The recreation space is an expansion of Santa Monica s parks and reflects on some of Santa Monica s earliest members of the Black community, where residents lived from 1900 to the 1950s, the city announced. We are proud to open Santa Monica s newest open space, Historic Belmar Park, and to unveil the culmination of the Belmar History + Art project, a community-driven effort to explore, celebrate and shine a bright light on the site of Santa Monica s former thriving African American neighborhood, Mayor Sue Himmelrich said in a statement. I hope we will see many Santa Monicans young and old join the virtual celebration and that every resident will find time to safely enjoy Hist
Historic Belmar Park to open this month
Feb. 12, 2021 at 6:00 am
HISTORIC BELMAR PARK: The project is expected to be at Pico and 4th Street. Courtesy image.
The highly anticipated Historic Belmar Park is set to open to the public this month following a virtual grand opening celebration scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28.
Installing a field at the Civic Center was a topic of discussion throughout the 1990s before it was finally included in a 2005 Civic Center Specific Plan. In the decades since, city leaders have sought to make Santa Monica’s newest open space a place where residents can not only come for recreation but for historical reflection as well since the site was home to some of Santa Monica’s earliest African-American residents.