It has been operating for more than seven years and has a budget of $ 13.8 million.
Downtown Vancouver has not seen the opening of a new park in more than 10 years, and this green space in Yaletown has been developing for almost as long.
Seven years ago, the Vancouver Park Council announced its intention to turn a 0.8-acre property in Smith and Richards into a park, and in 2020, with a budget of nearly $ 14 million, they finally broke through.
Tomorrow afternoon (April 29), the still unnamed “multidimensional park of the future”, as the board calls it, is due to be officially opened to the public a year later than expected. The board believes the space will become the city’s busiest park with 10,000 residents and 17,000 employees living and working within a five-minute walk of the area.
The space has a children’s playground with climbing frames, hammocks, seating, art installations and multidimensional paths. Plus architectural curiosities in the form of celestial frames.
Demand for green space in Vancouver has increased, and as climate concerns increase, the park has been designed with sustainability priority. 6,000 shrubs, perennials, climbing plants and mature trees cover one third of the park, many of which pay homage to those used in local culture as food and medicine.
Rain and water from the water body on the square will be collected, filtered and channeled to irrigate the garden and flush public toilets on site. Or it will be cleaned of aquatic plants before entering the city’s sewer system.
The jewel of the park will be the newest spot at the local Kafka’s Bakery, which is expected to open in May with a green roof and serving fresh pastries, sandwiches, homemade bread with yeast and soft ice cream.
During the championship, residents expressed concerns about the maintenance of the park, with people fearing it would suffer in the same way as some of the other green spaces in the city center. Park Planning and Development Director Dave Hutch told the Courier at the time that he hoped the café would act as an anchor and attract a large enough visitor population (the board expects more than 60,000 a year) to discourage people from engaging in certain behaviors.
“This park marks an important chapter in the transformation of downtown Vancouver. By setting the standard for innovative, high-capacity three-dimensional public spaces, this park demonstrates how to provide access to nature, leisure, health and social connectivity in a dense urban environment – and is unlike anything Vancouver has seen before, he said. in a recent press release.
The naming ceremony is scheduled for later in June to officially announce the name of the park, donated by the host nations.
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