Hermosa unveils new Pier Avenue
Mayor Pete Tucker cuts the ribbon. Photo The sun came out after days of rain to welcome the formal end of an eight-month project to remake Hermosa’s main drag into a pedestrian-friendly avenue with wider sidewalks, a palm-lined center median, succulent flora in expanded planters, and a cutting-edge system to keep dirty storm water out of the Pacific Ocean. “This is a great day for Hermosa,” Mayor Pete Tucker said to more than 100 people – including numerous city officials and businesspeople – who gathered for a ribbon cutting to mark the end of the $4.3 million project, and the unveiling of the new upper Pier Avenue. Tucker hearkened to 1992, when an urban design team from the American Institute of Architects urged Hermosa to create a pedestrian plaza on lower Pier Avenue near the beach, and a calmer, more pedestrian-friendly layout for upper Pier Avenue, which climbs over hilly land toward Pacific Coast Highway. Tucker pointed out that, thanks in part to the efforts of former Councilman Sam Edgerton, the lower section was converted into the pedestrian-only Pier Plaza. Then a city-appointed economic enhancement committee recommended remaking upper Pier as the design team had…
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