SANTA MONICA (CBSLA) — A new park in downtown Santa Monica hosted the unveiling of a historically significant art sculpture Tuesday meant to tell the history of the Black community in the area ...

Historic Belmar Park will be the name of Santa Monica’s newest open space after City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Wednesday. In the summer of 2019, the city of Santa Monica embarked ...

The decision to raze the area was included in Santa Monica's first master plan, adopted in 1957. That plan called for flattening the Belmar neighborhood to make room for the Santa Monica Civic ...

These and other features of the Belmar History + Art Project commemorate the history of the Historic Belmar Park area and other South Santa Monica Beach neighborhoods that were home to a thriving ...

Aerial image of Historic Belmar Park. *SANTA MONICA –– On Sunday, February 28 at 3 p.m., the City of Santa Monica will host a virtual grand opening celebration to unveil Historic Belmar Park ...

Historian Alison Rose Jefferson stands at the Historic Belmar Park project at the corner of 4th Street and Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica: She helped create the curated walking tour that pays ...

A visitor can learn this history and more in an outdoor exhibit that has just been completed at Historic Belmar Park at 4th and Pico on a half-mile walk past 16 panels that tell of an African ...

An aerial view of Santa Monica showing the Ocean Park Arena, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium ... Historic Belmar Park, which will abut a new soccer field next to the Civic Auditorium, ...

Story at a glance. Santa Monica is offering priority affordable housing placements to the descendants of families who were displaced by urban renewal projects throughout the 1950s and ‘60s.