Local News in Brief : Arts Park Plan Unveiled

The businessmen and art patrons who call themselves the Cultural Foundation still do not have the money to build their Arts Park L.A.--an envisioned complex of museums and theaters in the Sepulveda Basin. But now they have what they think is the next best thing--a full-color drawing of the complex.

At a Warner Center reception, the foundation unveiled an architect’s rendering of the $35-million arts park, with its museum, concert hall and open-air theater by a lakeside.

“We’re going to put up that picture and start raising money,” said Doris (Dodo) Meyer, the foundation’s chairman of the board.

The sketch shows a cluster of six buildings surrounding a meadow at the edge of a lake. The centerpiece is a 2,500-seat concert hall, flanked by a museum, art workshops and pavilions.

The arts park remains well beyond the foundation’s ability to pay for any actual construction. In the seven years since the group was founded, it has banked less than 1% of the $72 million needed to build the park and another complex planned for Warner Center.