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Orange County Great Park: Sports park, water park, ice rink, golf course
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Another recon mission. Nice
Burn That Belly said:Loco_local said:
It's still not cleaned up. Here's what I saw today. Driving there it felt like a war factory in Bosnia or something. You know that movie, Behind Enemy Lines, with Owen Wilson? When he was running through the trip wires?
I just cannot imagine homes being built next to this right now. It ought to be criminal. And what exactly are in those blue containers? I demand answers!
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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/...water-park-eyes-return-to-irvine-in-2019/amp/
https://www.ocregister.com/2017/10/...e-last-big-piece-of-orange-county-great-park/
Iconic Wild Rivers water park eyes return to Irvine in 2019
Tomoya Shimura
March 30, 2018 at 5:31 pm
IRVINE ? Longtime Orange County residents may be reminiscing about the summers they spent with family and friends at Wild Rivers.
There?s good news for them.
The iconic water park ? which closed in 2011 after a 25-year run to give way to the Los Olivos apartment complex ? is on track to return to Irvine in time for the summer of 2019, Wild Rivers President Mike Riedel said.
?We?re working nonstop,? he said by phone Friday, March 30. ?It?s an ambitious goal, but I think we can do it.?
Wild Rivers is working with Irvine to open an upgraded 26-acre water park at the city?s Orange County Great Park, that would feature water slides, an uphill water coaster, water play structures for children, a wave pool, a lazy river and Wild Rivers? popular Congo River Rapids. The old Wild Rivers was 14 acres.
The water park will be a part of the yet-to-be-developed, 233-acre Cultural Terrace, the final major piece of the Great Park where the city is also exploring an amphitheater, a lake, a library and museums. The water park will be along Marine Way, across from the Great Park sports park.
The City Council on Tuesday approved Wild Rivers taking the next step and doing necessary environmental studies on the project before finalizing lease terms.
Riedel said he?s waiting for the Navy, which will soon turn the previous portion of the El Toro Marine Base, over to the city, to get access to the site.
The new Wild Rivers Water Park is planned to be part of the Cultural Terrace at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine. (City of Irvine)
The new Wild Rivers Water Park is planned to be part of the Cultural Terrace at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine. (City of Irvine)
The council also directed staff to immediately start designing a 1,200-space parking lot, estimated to cost $11.7 million, to serve Wild Rivers and other Cultural Terrace amenities.
In the meantime, the City Council approved extending a lease for another year with Tierra Verde Industries for 62 acres at the future Cultural Terrace.
Tierra Verde Industries has leased the site since 2010 for a green waste and recycling operation. The city receives about $1 million a year from the company for rents and other fees.
The company was asking for a two-year extension, but council members said they are worried that could affect the development of Cultural Terrace.
https://www.ocregister.com/2017/10/...e-last-big-piece-of-orange-county-great-park/
Iconic Wild Rivers water park eyes return to Irvine in 2019
Tomoya Shimura
March 30, 2018 at 5:31 pm
IRVINE ? Longtime Orange County residents may be reminiscing about the summers they spent with family and friends at Wild Rivers.
There?s good news for them.
The iconic water park ? which closed in 2011 after a 25-year run to give way to the Los Olivos apartment complex ? is on track to return to Irvine in time for the summer of 2019, Wild Rivers President Mike Riedel said.
?We?re working nonstop,? he said by phone Friday, March 30. ?It?s an ambitious goal, but I think we can do it.?
Wild Rivers is working with Irvine to open an upgraded 26-acre water park at the city?s Orange County Great Park, that would feature water slides, an uphill water coaster, water play structures for children, a wave pool, a lazy river and Wild Rivers? popular Congo River Rapids. The old Wild Rivers was 14 acres.
The water park will be a part of the yet-to-be-developed, 233-acre Cultural Terrace, the final major piece of the Great Park where the city is also exploring an amphitheater, a lake, a library and museums. The water park will be along Marine Way, across from the Great Park sports park.
The City Council on Tuesday approved Wild Rivers taking the next step and doing necessary environmental studies on the project before finalizing lease terms.
Riedel said he?s waiting for the Navy, which will soon turn the previous portion of the El Toro Marine Base, over to the city, to get access to the site.
The new Wild Rivers Water Park is planned to be part of the Cultural Terrace at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine. (City of Irvine)
The new Wild Rivers Water Park is planned to be part of the Cultural Terrace at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine. (City of Irvine)
The council also directed staff to immediately start designing a 1,200-space parking lot, estimated to cost $11.7 million, to serve Wild Rivers and other Cultural Terrace amenities.
In the meantime, the City Council approved extending a lease for another year with Tierra Verde Industries for 62 acres at the future Cultural Terrace.
Tierra Verde Industries has leased the site since 2010 for a green waste and recycling operation. The city receives about $1 million a year from the company for rents and other fees.
The company was asking for a two-year extension, but council members said they are worried that could affect the development of Cultural Terrace.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/...-in-irvine-near-orange-county-great-park/amp/
City of Hope proposing $200 million cancer center in Irvine near Orange County Great Park
March 30, 2018 at 6:06 pm
IRVINE ? City of Hope is planning to build a $200 million cancer center, which would anchor a future medical campus south of the Orange County Great Park in Irvine.
The new outpatient center, equipped with ?leading-edge technologies and dedicated oncology specialists,? would open on land donated by FivePoint, which is overseeing the development of about 10,000 homes around the Great Park, according to a press release announcing the plan. It would be City of Hope?s first Orange County location.
?The City of Hope state-of-the-art cancer center will anchor a comprehensive new medical campus that will ultimately feature multiple centers of excellence offering the very best health care and wellness services in the heart of Irvine,? FivePoint chairman and CEO Emile Haddad said in the release. ?This unique campus and the cancer center will be dedicated to longevity and the best possible quality of life.?
FivePoint envisions an 18-acre medical campus on the south side of Alton Parkway, across from property previously discussed as the Broadcom headquarters.The site is also next to where the city of Irvine is planning to build a military veterans cemetery.
The tentative plans for the campus include the 70,000-square-foot City of Hope cancer center, as well as other medical facilities and a boutique hotel for patients and their families, FivePoint spokesman Steve Churm said.
A timetable for construction and opening hasn?t been set, Churm said.
City of Hope officials weren?t available Friday to provide many project details, but Dr. Harlan Levine, president of strategy and business ventures, said in an email the cancer center would be designed to accommodate up to 75,000 patient visits in a year, and provide services such as medical, surgical and radiation oncology, advanced diagnostic imaging and an infusion center.
City of Hope, headquartered in Duarte, is a private, not-for-profit research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. It?s one of 49 comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute.
In the past five years, City of Hope has grown to 17 locations across Southern California.
Irvine Councilwoman Christina Shea said the new medical campus FivePoint envisions would benefit not just Irvine residents, but those in south Orange County who have to drive farther north for their medical services.
City of Hope proposing $200 million cancer center in Irvine near Orange County Great Park
March 30, 2018 at 6:06 pm
IRVINE ? City of Hope is planning to build a $200 million cancer center, which would anchor a future medical campus south of the Orange County Great Park in Irvine.
The new outpatient center, equipped with ?leading-edge technologies and dedicated oncology specialists,? would open on land donated by FivePoint, which is overseeing the development of about 10,000 homes around the Great Park, according to a press release announcing the plan. It would be City of Hope?s first Orange County location.
?The City of Hope state-of-the-art cancer center will anchor a comprehensive new medical campus that will ultimately feature multiple centers of excellence offering the very best health care and wellness services in the heart of Irvine,? FivePoint chairman and CEO Emile Haddad said in the release. ?This unique campus and the cancer center will be dedicated to longevity and the best possible quality of life.?
FivePoint envisions an 18-acre medical campus on the south side of Alton Parkway, across from property previously discussed as the Broadcom headquarters.The site is also next to where the city of Irvine is planning to build a military veterans cemetery.
The tentative plans for the campus include the 70,000-square-foot City of Hope cancer center, as well as other medical facilities and a boutique hotel for patients and their families, FivePoint spokesman Steve Churm said.
A timetable for construction and opening hasn?t been set, Churm said.
City of Hope officials weren?t available Friday to provide many project details, but Dr. Harlan Levine, president of strategy and business ventures, said in an email the cancer center would be designed to accommodate up to 75,000 patient visits in a year, and provide services such as medical, surgical and radiation oncology, advanced diagnostic imaging and an infusion center.
City of Hope, headquartered in Duarte, is a private, not-for-profit research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. It?s one of 49 comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute.
In the past five years, City of Hope has grown to 17 locations across Southern California.
Irvine Councilwoman Christina Shea said the new medical campus FivePoint envisions would benefit not just Irvine residents, but those in south Orange County who have to drive farther north for their medical services.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bATQHsphWD4
CBS just reported that Wild Rivers is opening in the Great Park in 2019.
It?s bigger than the old one! This is going to be fun!
CBS just reported that Wild Rivers is opening in the Great Park in 2019.
It?s bigger than the old one! This is going to be fun!
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irvinebullhousing
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I can't wait. My kids going to love this.
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aquabliss said:
Legoland was selling annual passes include the water park for $89 at Costco.. I guess a brand-new park won't have to do that the first few years though.
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Here is a recent video posted by the city about the Wildlife Corridor. 175 acres for nature is nice and glad they did not build more homes on this precious land.
Here is a recent video posted by the city about the Wildlife Corridor. 175 acres for nature is nice and glad they did not build more homes on this precious land.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f57ZdxHT8NM
Construction video update on the Great Park Ice Rink and arena. There are walls now and they plan to open this November. The progress looks great. This place is going to be fun!
Construction video update on the Great Park Ice Rink and arena. There are walls now and they plan to open this November. The progress looks great. This place is going to be fun!
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They should bring back Lion Country Safari.
When the Lion Country Safari park closed in 1984, Lion Country Safari, still lessees of the property, subleased the property to Wild Rivers and Verizon Amphitheatre until Lion Country Safari's 30 yr master lease with TIC expired in 1997. So in a way, the new GP waterpark does have a historic connection to Lion Country Safari.irvinehomeowner said:
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Boy's Family Can't Forget Tiger Attack : Despite Award, Mauling Has Left Emotional, Physical Scars
It was understandable that 5-year-old Anthony Stopani, who was mauled by a tiger at Lion Country Safari two years ago, would say, "I want to be a lawyer when I grow up."
Thanks to his family's attorney, a settlement announced Friday will ensure the Westminster kindergartener payments ranging from $4 million to more than $20 million during his lifetime.
Anthony was almost 3 when his mother brought him, his two brothers and other relatives from their home in Upland to the now-closed Irvine animal park on Oct. 23, 1982.
As the family left the crowded grandstand area of an animal show, a Siberian tiger escaped its cage, grabbed Anthony by the head and carried him about 50 feet to some bushes, where it mauled him.
Anthony's skull was punctured and he suffered permanent, mild paralysis on his left side and scarring of his legs, arms and head. It will be a few years before doctors can determine if the injuries will cause epilepsy, as can happen after such an injury, the boy's attorney and parents said.
They said most of the paralysis has subsided, but that Anthony still drags his left foot when he walks. Because a plate on his skull--where an S-shaped scar remains from surgery to remove bone fragments lodged in his brain--has not been replaced, Anthony can't run and play normally with his school mates, but must be extremely cautious.
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-06/local/me-6971_1_payments
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Recalling Lion Country Safari
In 1978, a wayward hippo named Bubbles managed to escape and ended up in a drainage ditch behind the park. She was loose for 19 days and the fumbled attempts to recapture her made national news. Unfortunately, Bubbles fell awkwardly after receiving a tranquilizer shot and died.
An Asian elephant named Misty broke free after a 1983 concert at nearby Irvine Meadows Amphitheater. Park warden Lee Keaton tried to rechain the animal but was killed when Misty stepped on and crushed his skull. The elephant escaped and was on the loose for three hours, causing a traffic jam on the 405 freeway.
Even though the park was a success, drawing more than 1 million visitors during its first year of operation, the challenging economy of the mid-1970s began to affect attendance. Bad publicity from escape attempts and rising insurance claims brought an end to the park in 1984.
https://www.ocregister.com/2013/05/02/recalling-lion-country-safari/
It was understandable that 5-year-old Anthony Stopani, who was mauled by a tiger at Lion Country Safari two years ago, would say, "I want to be a lawyer when I grow up."
Thanks to his family's attorney, a settlement announced Friday will ensure the Westminster kindergartener payments ranging from $4 million to more than $20 million during his lifetime.
Anthony was almost 3 when his mother brought him, his two brothers and other relatives from their home in Upland to the now-closed Irvine animal park on Oct. 23, 1982.
As the family left the crowded grandstand area of an animal show, a Siberian tiger escaped its cage, grabbed Anthony by the head and carried him about 50 feet to some bushes, where it mauled him.
Anthony's skull was punctured and he suffered permanent, mild paralysis on his left side and scarring of his legs, arms and head. It will be a few years before doctors can determine if the injuries will cause epilepsy, as can happen after such an injury, the boy's attorney and parents said.
They said most of the paralysis has subsided, but that Anthony still drags his left foot when he walks. Because a plate on his skull--where an S-shaped scar remains from surgery to remove bone fragments lodged in his brain--has not been replaced, Anthony can't run and play normally with his school mates, but must be extremely cautious.
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-06/local/me-6971_1_payments
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Recalling Lion Country Safari
In 1978, a wayward hippo named Bubbles managed to escape and ended up in a drainage ditch behind the park. She was loose for 19 days and the fumbled attempts to recapture her made national news. Unfortunately, Bubbles fell awkwardly after receiving a tranquilizer shot and died.
An Asian elephant named Misty broke free after a 1983 concert at nearby Irvine Meadows Amphitheater. Park warden Lee Keaton tried to rechain the animal but was killed when Misty stepped on and crushed his skull. The elephant escaped and was on the loose for three hours, causing a traffic jam on the 405 freeway.
Even though the park was a success, drawing more than 1 million visitors during its first year of operation, the challenging economy of the mid-1970s began to affect attendance. Bad publicity from escape attempts and rising insurance claims brought an end to the park in 1984.
https://www.ocregister.com/2013/05/02/recalling-lion-country-safari/
The grave of Frasier the Sensuous Lion, the toothless, gimp, elderly lion who sired 35 cubs while at Lion Country, apparently still exists in the hills behind Los Olivos:
https://www.ocregister.com/2013/08/17/whiting-is-frasier-the-lions-grave-paved-over/
https://www.ocregister.com/2013/08/17/whiting-is-frasier-the-lions-grave-paved-over/
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This website says the escaped elephant killed a motorist on the 405:
Attendance went down, and negative incidents occurred at the Safari Park. An escaped elephant killed a motorist on the 405 freeway and had to be euthanize. When a hippo named Bubbles was loose for 19 days, the hippo was shot with a tranquilizer, rolled into the water of a reservoir behind the park's rolling hills and drowned. A necropsy revealed Bubbles was pregnant. Also, several lions had killed the hoofed animals and had to be quarantined from the rest of the animals in a fenced section of the park. Monkeys reportedly ripped the rubber bumper stripping off car doors and jumped on hoods. Insurance claims skyrocketed.
http://www.moderndayruins.com/2008/08/lion-country-safari-irvine-california.html
Bettie Kym Young of Newport gets a closeup of a tiger. Young, Miss Los Angeles Chinatown, was at Lion Country Safari to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Tiger in January 1974. (Los Angeles Times)
Attendance went down, and negative incidents occurred at the Safari Park. An escaped elephant killed a motorist on the 405 freeway and had to be euthanize. When a hippo named Bubbles was loose for 19 days, the hippo was shot with a tranquilizer, rolled into the water of a reservoir behind the park's rolling hills and drowned. A necropsy revealed Bubbles was pregnant. Also, several lions had killed the hoofed animals and had to be quarantined from the rest of the animals in a fenced section of the park. Monkeys reportedly ripped the rubber bumper stripping off car doors and jumped on hoods. Insurance claims skyrocketed.
http://www.moderndayruins.com/2008/08/lion-country-safari-irvine-california.html
Bettie Kym Young of Newport gets a closeup of a tiger. Young, Miss Los Angeles Chinatown, was at Lion Country Safari to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Tiger in January 1974. (Los Angeles Times)
