Young Circle amphitheater
Hollywood Boulevard and Federal Highway, Hollywood
It took three swings of the wrecking ball last March to take the first chunk out
of a downtown Hollywood antiquity that had become obsolete toward the end of its
half-century existence. Goodbye and thanks for the memories. Out of the battered
rubble of the aged amphitheater will spring a $14 million ArtsPark that won’t
be perfect but will certainly be an improvement. Scheduled to open in the fall
of 2005 on the 10-acre circle, the ArtsPark will include a new amphitheater, an
art gallery, a black box theater, dance and art studios, a sculpture garden, a
butterfly garden, a large central fountain, room to throw Frisbees and a glass-blowing
studio. Yes, a glass-blowing studio. What’d you expect, the Guggenheim?
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