Garage Conversion Playa Vista, California

Geography

According to the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, Playa Vista is adjoined upon the northwest by Del Rey, on the north and east by Culver City, on the southeast by Westchester and on the west by Marina del Rey.

Street and additional boundaries are: Ballona Creek or the Marina Freeway on the northwest and north, the Culver City boundary upon the northeast, Bluff Creek Drive or the boundary amongst Rancho Ballona and Rancho Sausal Redondo upon the southeast, followed by Teale Street and Cabora Drive, westerly and unmarked, to enlarge the Ballona Wetlands on the southwest.

According to Google Maps, the boundaries of the currently developed part are approximately Lincoln Boulevard and the Ballona Wetlands upon the west, Ballona Creek upon the north, Centinela Avenue on the east, and the Del Rey Hills bluffs (Westchester Bluffs) on the south. Playa Vista is bordered by the unincorporated enclave of Marina Del Rey to the northwest, by the community of Playa del Rey to the southwest, by Loyola Marymount University and the upland ration of Westchester to the southwest, south, east and southeast, and by the Del Rey district to the northwest.

Playa Vista Riparian Corridor

Bluff Creek is a stream in Los Angeles County, California. It runs under the Westchester bluffs (Ballona Escarpment) and is considered a remnant or leftover of the now-channelized Centinela Creek, a tributary of Ballona Creek. Bluff Creek is within the Playa Vista neighborhood and feeds the Freshwater Marsh of the Ballona Wetlands.

The Playa Vista Riparian Corridor, a popular spot for birdwatching and fitness, surrounds this creek. The cluster of three footpaths and child maintenance roads clustered in credit to Bluff Creek, at the base of the Westchester Bluffs, is an wildlife area associated taking into account the larger Ballona Wetlands estuary and watershed.

The uppermost path, sometimes called the LMU Fire Road (a ration is legally Cabora Drive), is right of entry to leashed dogs and is accessible from the residential neighborhood upon the bluffs above via a long and steep paved ramp accessible at Altamoor & Dunbarton, as with ease as via Lincoln Blvd (west) and Bluff Creek Drive near Artisan Way (East). The central trail is a private child support road. The lowest road is a 2.5 miles (4.0 km) exercise track winding along Bluff Creek through Playa Vista passing merged recreational areas including Ballona Discovery Park, which features uncovered exhibits describing the chronicles and ecology of the area.

History

Tongva Native Americans

The Tongva Native Americans behind inhabited the location now occupied by Playa Vista. There was a Tongvan sacred burial site located here: “about 1,000 Native American remains […] had been exhumed during construction,” grave sites that were deemed sacred by the Tongva people. The remains were discovered after construction had begun. In 2008, the remains “were laid to on fire and covered like white seashells during a sacred burial ceremony near the Westchester bluffs.” In addition, “Playa Vista plans to solution a museum dubbed the Discovery Center to educate people very nearly the Ballona wetlands and the Gabrieliño-Tongva tribe. It is acknowledged to be completed at the terminate of .”

Port Ballona

In 1839 the house was part of Rancho La Ballona, later in 1887, it became ration of the Port Ballona.

Ballona Creek Watershed

Prior to its enhance as headquarters for Hughes Aircraft Company, much of the estate occupied by Playa Vista was a wetlands connected later a large salt-marsh in what is now Marina Del Rey. These wetlands were formerly allocation of the larger Ballona Creek watershed that occupied these areas along afterward what is now Playa Del Rey, and much of Venice, Los Angeles.

Howard Hughes – Spruce Goose

In the 1940s, the aviator Howard Hughes bought the site and constructed a private airfield runway, named Hughes Airport, and an jet factory afterward large hangars for his Hughes Aircraft Company production. The well-known Spruce Goose (Hughes H-4 Hercules plane), with the largest wingspan and culmination of any aircraft in history, was built in the hangar and after that transported to Long Beach Harbor for its forlorn flight in 1947.