TreePeople Center for Community Forestry

TreePeople Center for Community Forestry, Coldwater Canyon Park

This four-acre visitor center and educational base for TreePeople opened in late 2008 in Los Angeles.  Based on an interpretive master plan developed by The Hettema Group, this $10 million dollar, boutique-sized project has global sized ambitions. TreePeople is fighting global warming--one tree at a time.

Kicking off the development of the center, Andy Lipkis, TreePeople founder and president, turned to The Hettema Group—who engaged in a deep and penetrating study of the organization, interviewed key stake holders, synthesized the information and crafted the brand message and mission. This brand then informed the interpretive master plan itself. 

The TreePeople Center is a destination for those in search of inspiration and education on the campus which includes:

•    The LEED platinum-certified Conference Center
•    S. Mark Taper Foundation Environmental Learning Center
•    La Kretz Urban Watershed Demonstration Garden
•    216,000-gallon cistern that stores rainwater
•    W.M. Keck Foundation Nursery for native plants that restore damaged local watersheds.