I go there once in while for their Sunday Jam. There's been comments made around the fact that it won't be around much longer... Just rumours though, from what I could gather.
Just behind this...
"Around 1920, Walter Holowach came home from Vienna with a horse chestnut seed in his violin case and planted it in the family's downtown Edmonton yard."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/holowach-tree-downtown-edmonton-100th-birthday-1.5223334...
Personally, I don't find it boring. I find it depressing and ugly.
It's really a shame, since with a few tweaks to the shape and different cladding, it could be so much better.
More curved lines similar to the upper NW corner would have done wonders for the exterior. Of course, the cladding still needs to be significantly better as well.
Appears to be sheathing...
https://www.usg.com/content/dam/USG_Marketing_Communications/canada/product_promotional_materials/finished_assets/securock-glass-mat-sheathing-installation-en-can.pdf
Quite the change!
https://www.google.ca/maps/@53.5391575,-113.5056871,3a,75y,76.83h,86.41t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szdZW8AnWbkfSPfOVKBegBQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0
I get your point as well, but...
Yeah, zoning is one thing, practical use is another. When standing on the sidewalk, looking at that piece of land, it does not present itself as a park. I would rather see this patch of land get rezoned to allow commercial development, than have something zoned...
Yep, I know, but it isn't much of a park, and doesn't have any development on it. IMO, it would better serve the community as a small commercial development, which would be a better buffer to SPR...
EDIT: Actually, it doesn't appear to be a proper public park, but more just a green space....
I'm typically one for encouraging development, but this one just didn't make a lot of sense to me, since there is a triangle of undeveloped land immediately south of it that would be far better suited to a development like this. The wife and I walked around the area, and having a commercial...