[5] The park occupies an area straddling four east London boroughs; Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest.

[7] The site covers parts of Stratford, Bow, Leyton, and Hackney Wick in east London, overlooking the A12 road.

[8] The Royal Mail gave the park and Stratford City the postcode E20, which had previously only appeared in the television soap opera EastEnders for the fictional suburb of Walford.

[12] London's Olympic and Paralympic bid proposed that there would be four indoor arenas in the park in addition to the main venues, but the revised master plan published in 2006 reduced this to three, with the volleyball events moved to the Earls Court Exhibition Centre.

[15] The construction of the Olympic Park was managed by CLM Delivery Partner, comprising CH2M Hill, Laing O'Rourke and Mace.

[33] It will be a mixed-use development,[34] with a total investment of in excess of £1.3 billion, and will be delivered by Lend Lease and London and Continental Railways in a 50/50 joint venture.

[35] Stratford Cross will include 4 million sq ft of commercial office space,[36] 330 homes known as Glasshouse Gardens and a new hotel.

On 11 February 2011, West Ham United were selected as preferred bidders, ahead of Tottenham Hotspur, to take over the Olympic Stadium as a football venue after the end of the games.

West Ham did go on to win the later tenancy bid and began using the stadium from the start of the 2016–17 football season as the main tenant.

[55] The former site of the Riverbank Arena was used to stage the Hard Rock Calling, Wireless and Electric Daisy Carnival festivals .