L.A. County supervisors vote to rename Grand Park in honor of Gloria Molina, the longtime supervisor who last week revealed she has terminal cancer.
Clad in Gloria Molina’s signature royal purple, Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to rename downtown’s Grand Park in honor of the trailblazing politician who played an instrumental role in creating the green space.she was living with “very aggressive” terminal cancer. The announcement prompted Supervisor Hilda Solis to write a motion to rename Grand Park as Gloria Molina Grand Park. A plaque will be placed in the park in her honor.
“It was her insistence, her tenacity and her perseverance that kept the project going,” said Molina’s husband, Ron Martinez, who said his wife was bedridden and wasn’t able to attend Tuesday’s meeting. “Gloria followed her instincts.”When Molina became the first Latina on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors in 1991, my mom proudly told me that she was a history maker we should root for, even though we lived in Anaheim.
Former Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who served with Molina, recalled how Molina, whom he called “indefatigable,” had refused to let the developer delay the pledge to put at least $50 million toward the park. When the Great Recession hit, the developer kept trying to delay it. “As I stand here as the first woman mayor of Los Angeles, it should be very clear that I stand on the shoulders of Gloria Molina,” Bass said.
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