Exposition Park – Los Angeles, CA

Overview

As part of the award-winning Exposition Park Master Plan team led by Torti Gallas + Partners, Chase played a key role in helping visualize the park’s future through conceptual graphics and 3D visualizations. These tools were instrumental in shaping public understanding and stakeholder alignment around the plan’s goals and design strategies.

Spanning 152 acres in the heart of Los Angeles, Exposition Park is home to major cultural, recreational, and educational institutions. Yet, its sporadic development over time left many of its assets disconnected, and large swaths—particularly in the underserved southern portion—paved over as parking lots. With the 2028 Summer Olympics on the horizon and new anchors like the George Lucas Museum and Banc of California Stadium emerging, the timing was critical for a visionary update.

Chase’s visualizations brought the master plan to life, illustrating how disparate park elements could be reconnected, green space could be expanded into park-poor neighborhoods, and circulation could be reimagined. These conceptual graphics helped stakeholders—including state agencies, local community members, and nonprofit partners—better understand the spatial relationships, design intentions, and long-range potential of proposed improvements.

By translating abstract planning ideas into digestible visuals, Chase’s work supported a collaborative planning process that built consensus and generated momentum for implementation—even in the absence of immediate funding. The result is a bold, unified vision for Exposition Park that re-centers community access, ecological health, and world-class civic space.