Downtown

I'm sure Grand Park is nice, but let's not forget

zooey-grab.jpgI'm looking forward to seeing what they have done with the space that has been re-christened Grand Park. It sounds like a nice addition to downtown's Civic Center, all things considered. But there was already a park covering much of the same space, and it wasn't especially inviting or heavily used except by lunching county and courthouse workers.

It was a nice spot, though, for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character to celebrate bedding Zooey Deschanel's Summer in "(500) Days of Summer."




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