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The Great Park is a public park in Irvine, California, with a focus on sports, agriculture, and the arts. It is a non- aviation reuse of the decommissioned Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) El Toro . The Orange County park comprises 28.8% of the total area that once made up the air base.
Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena is a 2,500 seat (FivePoint Arena) 4 rink (3 NHL and 1 Olympic) ice hockey facility in Irvine, California. It serves as the practice facility of the Anaheim Ducks, after leaving Anaheim Ice. [5] The facility includes a team store, restaurant (Between the Rinks), pro shop, arcade, and other amenities.
Championship Soccer Stadium is a 5,500 seat soccer-specific stadium at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California. The stadium serves as the permanent home of Orange County SC of the second tier USL Championship league after the club began its existence relocating to various stadiums within the county. Championship Soccer Stadium is ...
Development plans for the 3,724 acres (15 km 2) site include residential, golf, commercial, R&D, and schools. 1,375 acres (5.6 km 2) of the site will be dedicated to the Great Park. A ceremony to formally transfer ownership of the property to Heritage Fields LLC was held on 29 August 2005. [17]
Championship Soccer Stadium; Irvine, California (2017–present) View of the main grandstand in the Championship Soccer Stadium on August 3, 2024 from the Northwest corner of the stadium. In October 2023, it was announced the City of Irvine and Orange County SC had drafted a 5-year agreement for the team to operate Championship Soccer Stadium. [28]
The current site of the Orange County Great Park originated as Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) El Toro, a military air base that operated from 1942 to 1999.In 2016, the Irvine Company decided not to renew Live Nation's lease at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, meaning that the 35-year-old venue would permanently close and face demolition to make way for housing developments.
The Irvine Company chose to build housing on the terrain, [4] such that the entire space of the original Irvine-based Lion Country Safari Park would become a 3,700-unit housing development. [ 5 ] Live Nation and FivePoint built a temporary amphitheatre at the Orange County Great Park named FivePoint Amphitheatre in 2017, for a limited term of ...
Since the closure, there have been plans to recreate Wild Rivers in Irvine on or near the Orange County Great Park, which have been under development. [3] [4] The developers secured full funding and commenced construction on July 1, 2021, confirming the park's reopening for Summer 2022. The new Wild Rivers location held its soft opening on July ...