More than a year ago, the city of Los Angeles cleared a large homeless encampment for a “beautification project” at Alameda Triangle, a triangular-shaped median directly across from Philippe The Original.
A fence was quickly erected, native plants, including white sage, yarrow, and deer grass, were planted in the ground, and the mostly bare median was transformed into a much-needed green space in a neighborhood that hardly has any.
A banner posted on the fence during construction said that the area would reopen to the public by summer 2024.
But the summer came and went without the fence coming down.
By the fall of last year, L.A. TACO began noticing the park filling up with trash, so we contacted the local council office.