USA Water Polo Facility, Concert Venue, Botanical Garden Approved for Irvine’s Great Park
Irvine’s Great Park will have an aquatic facility to train the USA Water Polo’s Olympic teams, as well as a 14,000-seat amphitheater, and veterans memorial park by 2029.
The Great Park Board of Directors, made up of Irvine city councilors, voted 3–2 March 14 to carry out a plan that includes the construction of such and other amenities, including a food court, botanical gardens, promenade, library, boating lake, and a cultural terrace.
But dissenting directors sided with Irvine City Manager Oliver Chi, who warned the now-approved plan is “not feasible.”
City staff initially presented a $720 million first-phase plan that would construct much of the Great Park over the next five years….