The definitive event of Thomas Small’s unique development-oriented campaign for the City Council – a fundraiser — rolls out this evening at 7 in the Washington Boulevard offices of the renowned architect Clive Wilkinson.
Before Mr. Small colorfully describes the agenda, political observers still are trying to unlock a puzzle. They have not yet decided how they feel about his different-drummer candidacy. In imaginatively, artfully sketching portraits of a Culver City that sails smoothly through normally choppy development waters, he steers wide of traditional political themes and streams. Politics? Mr. Small’s is the path less traveled, and establishment types still have not graded him.
Meanwhile, there is tonight’s visually and intellectually tasty program at 6116 Washington Blvd.
Mr. Small is a world-educated, world-traveled architecture journalist, artist and fine arts aficionado, and those qualities will be evident as he speaks.
“The main event that is so fascinating and has drawn so much interest,” said Mr. Small, “is that there will be10 or more architects and design teams from the major developments that are happening here in Culver City.
“They include the Culver Steppes at Parcel B, the Ivy Substation at the Expo Line train station at Washington and National, from The Platform across the street from the Ivy Substation and from that extraordinary building on Jefferson Boulevard at the intersection of the West L.A. College entrance, just west of Duquesne. That will be one of the most important development sites in Culver City,” Mr. Small said.
“From those developments and from others, I have the principals of the design teams, the architects, the landscape architects, sometimes the engineers working on those projects who will have their models, have their presentation boards, and they will be mounted near each other throughout Clive’s conference area, quite a large space on the second floor of his office.
“The main event,” Mr. Small explains, “is that I will introduce all of the design teams, and then we will break up into little groups.
“People can go back and forth. They can have one-on-one conversations about each of these projects with these truly world-class designers,” Mr. Small said.
Tickets for the fundraiser may be purchased online at www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-small-for-city-council-designing-the-future-culver-city-tickets-21322665667 Cost is $100 per person or $150 for couples.
