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be a hulking gray eyesore. In his
effort to bring more open, green
spaces to his neighborhood, Bacon
became one of the early " Friends of
the High Line " supporters. The ambitious Manhattan " park in the sky, "
whose first stage opened last June,
has drawn approximately 20,000 visitors a day on weekends. Bacon has
not only donated personal funds to
the project-he has also networked,
organized fundraising events, and
appeared in a series of short videos
publicizing the High Line cause.
Bacon may view himself as just a concerned resident doing his part, but he
got his first lessons in urban revitalization and green spaces from an expert
in the field. His father Edmund worked
as a planner for the city of Philadelphia
and authored the book Design of Cities.
Sounding more like an urban planner
than an actor, Bacon calls the transformation of the viaduct into open space " a
bold and worthwhile cause in a neighborhood quickly rising as a world class
magnet for arts and entertainment. "

Tony Hawk
Giving the BeltLine a Skate Park
The Tony Hawk Foundation has been
awarding grants for skate parks since
2002. The champion skateboarder's
foundation seeks to " support and empower youth...through the creation of
public skateboard parks in low-income
communities. " Hawk maintains a website full of talking points and statistics for
volunteer groups planning skate parks-
and he awards approximately $150,000
in grants each year. Hawk's grants
fund safe, well designed skateboarding areas in communities where skateboarders might otherwise be hanging

	

out on streets and walkways. One of
Hawk's recent grants is getting a lot of
press: the $25,000 award that will fund
the Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark, a
15,000-square-foot component of the
Atlanta BeltLine redevelopment effort.
Hawk may not be focusing on improving
his own home town-but the focus of his
organization is on the unifying effect that
skateboard parks can have on towns and
cities across the country. " The whole
skate park experience has been a wonder to skaters and non-skaters alike, "
Hawk comments. " Senior citizens marvel at the athleticism and imaginations
of the skaters, and skaters have a new
respect for how a small-town village
government can work if patience and
fortitude are applied. "

he raised
the money to rebuild
it. Commenting on his longstanding commitment to the landmark, Hefner said, " My childhood
dreams and fantasies came from the
movies, and the images created in
Hollywood had a major influence on
my life....The Hollywood sign is Hollywood's Eiffel Tower. " The land, originally bought in 1940 by industrialist Howard
Hughes, was sold in 2002 to a group of
Chicago investors. Their intent was to

Hugh Hefner
Saving the Hollywood Sign
Last April, citizen fundraising efforts to
purchase and protect Cahuenga Peak,
the 138 acres behind the famous Hollywood sign, finally paid off. And one
prominent Hollywood citizen made all
the difference in that fund drive. Playboy
magazine founder Hugh Hefner supplied
the final $900,000 chunk of funding in the
$12 million Trust for Public Land " Save
the Peak " effort. Hefner has a history of
devotion to the Hollywood sign: In 1978

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build four luxury homes on the peak.
So, ironically, Hefner's contribution
means much more than the preservation of a world-renowned urban icon. It
represents the permanent protection of
one of the few remaining wildlife corridors of the region.
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