Why you should experience Nash Street in Los Angeles, California.
Nash Street is a dynamic corridor where El Segundo's aerospace innovation, business district, transportation connectivity, and coastal heritage define one of the city's most influential commercial streets.
Running through Smoky Hollow between Downtown El Segundo and The Edge District, the corridor connects aerospace campuses, technology firms, corporate headquarters, hotels, neighborhood businesses, and transit facilities that collectively reflect El Segundo's continuing role as one of Southern California's foremost centers of engineering and innovation. Modern office buildings, landscaped streetscapes, pedestrian improvements, public art, and contemporary commercial development preserve a corridor shaped by sustained private investment, municipal planning, and regional economic growth. Businesses, educational institutions, municipal agencies, transportation providers, and residents continue reinforcing Nash Street's importance while supporting innovation, employment, commerce, and community life throughout El Segundo. The result is an experience defined by technological leadership, economic vitality, and the enduring character of Smoky Hollow.
What you should know about Nash Street.
Nash Street is best known for serving the heart of El Segundo's modern business district, a community founded in 1917 by the Standard Oil Company of California to support construction of its new coastal refinery, among the largest industrial investments in Southern California during the early twentieth century. The corridor occupies land formerly associated with the approximately 25,000-acre Rancho Sausal Redondo, granted in 1837 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to Antonio Ygnacio Avila, before subdivision and industrial development transformed the area into a major employment center. During the twentieth century, expansion of the aerospace industry, including facilities operated by Douglas Aircraft Company, Northrop Corporation, The Aerospace Corporation, Raytheon, and numerous engineering firms, established the district surrounding Nash Street as a nationally significant center for aviation, defense, and space research. Continued investment by the City of El Segundo, together with proximity to Los Angeles International Airport, regional rail transit, and technology employers, has reinforced Nash Street's importance as a corridor linking research, advanced manufacturing, corporate offices, and transportation infrastructure.
The El Segundo Metro K Line Station, opened in 2022, strengthened regional rail connectivity between El Segundo, Los Angeles International Airport, and the greater Los Angeles transit network while enhancing mobility serving Nash Street. The Aerospace Corporation, established in 1960, continues providing federally funded technical support for national security and civil space programs from its El Segundo headquarters near the corridor. The Smoky Hollow Arts District has transformed former industrial buildings into studios, galleries, creative workplaces, and innovation spaces while preserving the neighborhood's manufacturing heritage surrounding Nash Street. The Automobile Driving Museum, founded in 2006, preserves more than one hundred historically significant automobiles while contributing educational programming and cultural activity within the corridor's surrounding business district.
How to fold Nash Street into your trip.
Nash Street is best experienced as an exploration of El Segundo's aerospace legacy, innovation economy, and creative redevelopment.
Begin at Automobile Driving Museum, where historically significant vehicles, rotating exhibitions, and educational displays introduce the industrial heritage surrounding Nash Street before continuing through El Segundo's business district. Continue to Smoky Hollow Arts District, where adaptive reuse studios, galleries, and creative workplaces demonstrate how former manufacturing spaces continue serving a new generation of artists and entrepreneurs. Conclude at The Point, where contemporary shopping, outdoor gathering spaces, and dining destinations provide a memorable finale highlighting the continuing evolution of El Segundo's commercial landscape. The progression moves naturally from transportation history to creative redevelopment before concluding with contemporary urban activity, revealing why Nash Street continues expressing the enduring character of Smoky Hollow.
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