A new city logo and color scheme was unanimously adopted by members of the Norwalk City Council on Tuesday, February 21st. The selected logo features two strong arches, connected and secured by a keystone. Marked with the letter “N”, the …Continue Reading.
Members of the Norwalk City Council unanimously adopted “A Connected Community” as the official City motto on Tuesday, October 25th and will move forward with developing a logo to finalize the branding process. This vote comes after a long and …Continue Reading.
The City Council met in late June to review the series of Brand Statements approved by the Brand Advisory Committee and to hear potential mottos for the City of Norwalk. In January, the City Council voted to move forward with …Continue Reading.
Infrastructure we are known for the Norwalk sign other notable places include county offices/court, jail, mental hospital, sheriff’s facilities (youth, offices, etc.), Cerritos College and railroad. The city is surrounded by freeways (605, 91, 5). We have a unique blend of working and middle class residents.
Sadly, Norwalk still had higher crime rates than surrounding communities such as Downey, Cerritos, Bellflower, Santa Fe Springs, etc. We have not been able to shake our image of the gangs int he 80’s and 90’s.
Golf N stuff
The Green line metro station
A community garden
The Norwalk Town square
The Norwalk Arts and Sports Complex
Cerritos College
The Norwalk Water Tower
We are conveniently sandwiched in between Orange County and Los Angeles.
…in other words, the only thing that norwalk has going for it is the fact that it’s located between (or, rather, on the periphery) of comfort and culture.
Norwalk and its residents possess a rude sense of defeat, that is, as the result of some indistinct failure — which is to say that the majority of people who live here do not live here by choice…even the people on the city council refuse to even think about calling norwalk their home.
Potholes, outdated infrastructure, public safety cars? I never got that.
Costco! 🙂
Golf n Stuff
The Green Line Station
The “One Ways”
Lots of gang members with police inmunity
Norwalk has a small number of positive thing that other cities don’t.
(others have discussed the ONE WAYS, Crime, Gangs and English as second language dysfunction)
– Parks & Schools – There is a unique cluster of parks and schools along Leffingwell and foster. The extension of the Riverbed GreenBelt Project of the 90’s makes a nice example of what that corridor could become. Walk-ability is still an issue there, as in most of Norwalk, due to criminal types trolling there. Foster is really a residents route through our city. Parks, Water Tower, Schools, a home garden worth protecting (<– city slogan inspiration?). The medians there could be upgraded to be an asset for Norwalk's image, regarding parks, schools and walk-ability. need better academic standards too though, not just green entourage.
– Transit & Infrastructure – Norwalk has a strategic position at center point of the regions economic area, in that we are located equidistant from OC and LA. We are close to both N/S & E/W running freeways, making for a nice home base as a commuter. We can take the 460 bus from our Greenline "Bee" smart Metro Station to either Downtown LA or Disneyland. Greenline light rail to near LAX and beyond. We have access to one of the best Bike Ways around, because the San Gabriel River bed is our City's Western border. The park access here is nice too and the Bike Way shows off some of Norwalks more farm related roots, with nurseries, backyard gardens and horse corrals.
– Historic Structures – Our Town Square sign is unique to our town and is something that no surrounding Town has. It always reminds me of Grandparents. those great people who established roots in Norwalk in the 1950's. That square once was a place were we all went to see movies and shop. that sign is an asset we should embrace. Front Street has some Vintage Buildings, but there is little draw there for business, as the railroad side areas there need greenbelt treatment, as example see what they did in San Luis Obispo next to Cal Poly on california st in google maps street view. We need to expand the atmosphere of the Sports Complex and renewed Norwalk Park southward to bring Front St. into the campus. Lots of potential for small, unique, maybe even trendy/artisan stores there. Does City provide incentive to do so? Restaurants, WHERE'S OUR RED CHILI???