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| UCLA's other garden |
Real estate developer and philanthropist Morton La Kretz gave a $5
million donation to the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden. The gift is the largest in the garden’s 85-year history. The donation will be used to construct the La Kretz Garden Pavilion
that will house a welcome center and classroom. It will also be used to
start an endowment. The pavilion is scheduled to open at the end of 2016. Last year, La Kretz, a UCLA alumnus, donated $1 million to create a
new entrance for the garden. The university has scheduled a grand
opening celebration for noon on Monday. The new entrance is located at
the corner of Tiverton Avenue and Charles E. Young Drive...
Full story at
http://www.losangelesregister.com/articles/city-600074-garden-kretz.html
As blog readers will know, UCLA has been trying to rid itself of the
Hannah Carter Japanese Garden in Bel Air and gotten enmeshed in litigation which blocked the sale. Yours truly once served on a university committee with Mildred Mathias and is happy to see her garden enhanced. Maybe with the new university interest in gardens, some better resolution than court decisions can be found for the "other" garden.
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