Gloria Molina Grand Park

This guide to Gloria Molina Grand Park in Los Angeles follows the county supervisor for whom it's named: one of ten children of Mexican immigrant parents, who became the first Latina elected to the California State Assembly in 1982 and later pushed for years to turn a tired parking-lot-era plaza into public green space. It traces her decades on the Los Angeles City Council and County Board of Supervisors, and the terminal cancer diagnosis in 2023 that set the county racing to honor her while she was still alive. The fountain, pink lounge chairs and splash pad in front of you finally opened in 2012, decades after she first argued for them.