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Irvine City News Publisher's Note, March 2017

2/28/2017

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Making Music

By Jacob Levy, editor and publisher
Can you feel a change coming? Over the next several months, and continuing through the end of the decade, the Orange County Great Park is going to accelerate its greatness. Many told us they felt the momentum shift into higher gear at the “ice breaking” for the fabulous new ice facility being underwritten by the Anaheim Ducks and Ducks owners Susan and Henry Samueli. You can read more about that moment in this issue, but suffice it to say that when the Samuelis attach their name to a project (literally or figuratively) greatness for the project and for Orange County has tended to follow.

We also heard from many at the ice-breaking who were impressed by their first look at the new Sports Park soccer stadium that’s nearing completion, and now a prominent part of the Great Park vista. Once the Sports Park is complete and open to the public, we’re confident that all but the most ardent Great Park skeptics will acknowledge that progress is being made and that a great park of which we can all be proud is near on the horizon.

It’s not just the buildings and grounds and amenities we’re excited about. We’re hoping that the momentum we’re feeling will also heal some of the rifts and factionalism that have troubled our city’s politics for too long.

​We weren’t the only attendees to note that the groundbreaking of the new Great Park Ice Complex might have been the first community event in recent memory to draw the complete city council. While former Mayor Choi could have been expected at most any event in town, other councilmembers may have withheld their attendance depending upon the topic at hand.

We’re looking forward to upcoming city council sessions to see if that unity of vision and purpose is something citizens can rely upon going forward. For example, in March or soon thereafter, the proposal to keep live music in Irvine will come before the city council.
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Having Live Nation, FivePoint and the city collaborate to create a focal point for a vibrant music scene sounds great to us.
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Irvine City News Publisher's Note

2/1/2017

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​In love with Irvine

By Jacob Levy, editor and publisher
It’s the month of February, when we all are forced…err…happy to shower spouses, partners, lovers, flings and/or friends with flowers and gifts.
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The February focus on relationships got us thinking about ones that go wrong. We like to think that once we take a big step in life, that it’s forever. For many of us it is, and that’s a joyous thing. But people change, they grow up, evolve and sometimes they drift apart.

The things that were once important and true about a relationship—what first brought partners together—may no longer be part of the picture as both parties mature.

Breaking up is hard to do, but at times it’s best for everyone. Many of us realize that the lessons of an unsuccessful relationship help us make our ultimate one work.

We all know some who hold on too long, unable to move on, complaining about the present while yearning for days long past.

The same can be true about our love affair with where we live. Irvine is not the same place it was in the 1970s, 1980s or even last decade. If that’s when you fell in love with the city, today’s Irvine may not be what you signed up for, and you’re not willing to change with it.

If you yearn for the day when Irvine was a sparsely populated suburb, a highly homogenous bedroom community with a small town atmosphere and a limited economy with residents who largely depended on jobs located elsewhere, it may be time to break up with the place you fell in love with long ago.

That can be difficult, especially when so many are passionate about the new Irvine, with its booming economy, cultural diversity, superlative schools, bustling boulevards, and incredible inclusiveness. Not to mention all those exciting culinary hot spots replacing familiar old restaurant chains. But the fact is the old Irvine is gone, and it’s not coming back.

We grew up with the old Irvine, and recall it with fondness. But we are madly, passionately in love with the new Irvine. It’s an exciting, challenging place. There are growing pains, certainly. But we’re happy to be part of the solution, working toward the future together, rather than fixating on a past that’s...in the past.
Won’t you join us?
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    Jacob Levy is the editor and publisher of the Irvine City News.

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