Mile-long greenway to give Cypress Park and Glassell Park access to L.A. River

Funds were approved on Wednesday to build a $10-million, mile-long riverfront greenway on the site of a former rail yard on the border of Cypress Park and Glassell Park.

The Paseo del Río project will be the first of many developments intended to turn what was is now a mostly barren and contaminated swath of land into a sprawling park and recreation area next to the Los Angeles River.