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….