IRVINE
Children will be able to drive pleasure boats, pilot blimps and help build skyscrapers in “Pretend City,” a children’s interactive museum expected to open its doors in Irvine in 2002.
Pretend City founders announced Tuesday that the Irvine Co. has donated a three-acre site in Irvine at the corner of Sand Canyon Avenue and the San Diego freeway for their hands-on children’s learning playground.
Pretend City will be part of a new commercial and residential village the Irvine Co. hopes to build in Planning Area 17.
The new village will be built on about 1,400 acres situated between the Irvine Spectrum and Oak Creek to the north and Shady Canyon and the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park to the south.
Pretend City, a nonprofit children’s museum, was formed in May 1997, with planning offices in Irvine. Its mission is to stimulate and nurture the intellectual and creative curiosity of children in an innovative way, the founders said.
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