Community Projects
Through active community engagement, Willmore City has been recognized as a federally designated improvement strategy area. The Willmore City Heritage Association has successfully obtained and reinvested grants worth $1 million into the Willmore City neighborhood. These funds have been utilized for various initiatives, including enhancing bicycle and pedestrian safety, establishing a small park, implementing a green alleyway project, creating a children's garden, adding murals, and installing historic district street signs. The neighborhood's achievements have made it a notable model within the program, often serving as a benchmark for other regions, as commended by the City of Long Beach's Community Development office.
List of Past Projects:
Improvement of existing Cesar Chavez Amphitheater, adding electricity and installing a shade structure.
Cesar Chavez Park Children’s Gateway Garden
Willmore Heritage Garden and Bioswale.
Implemented a green alleyway project at W. LA Reina Way.
6th St. Bridge Mural.
Installation of Willmore City Historic district street signs.
Annual family friendly community events:
Winter in Willmore, Season of Live Arts and Music, community socials, and more.
Neighborhood beautifications and tree plantings through out WIllmore City.
Willmore City Heritage Garden & Bioswale
The Bioswale Willmore Heritage Garden is a project funded by the Habitat Conservation Fund and managed by WCHA to create a protected coastal wetland area adjacent to the Los Angeles River, in the Willmore City neighborhood. The project helps promote a coastal wetland for migratory birds and a parkland for California native plants, insects, and local wildlife. In addition, the Bioswale Willmore Heritage Garden serves as a pathway to the Los Angeles River bike and walking path, which connects the Willmore City Drake Park community to its neighboring communities.
Along with the project's many beneficial qualities, the Bioswale Willmore Heritage Garden also beautifies a quarter mile of previously inaccessible parkland. It will tie in with the Long Beach MUST project, which will divert and treat polluted stormwater runoff prior to entering the Los Angeles River or reuse as an alternative water source. The Bioswale Willmore Heritage Garden is a beautiful park and an urban wetland that can be enjoyed by visitors for many generations to come.
