Wellington Cat Promenade
Toronto's Wellington Cat Promenade will be a short park, between Wellington Street and King Street, West of Spadina, in the enterainment district.[1][2][3]
Claude Cormier designed the park, and its amusing statues of cats, and hidden mice.[1] Cormier had previously designed the well-regarded dog fountain in Berczy Park.[4] The Berczy Park dog fountain included one cat, and the Cat Promenade includes one dog statue.
A property developer received permission to redevelop a 7.8 acres (Template:Convert/hectare) property, if the compensated for the higher density, if they purchased nearby properties, and turned them into parkspace.[5] The cat promenade was part of that park space.[6]
BlogTO reports that, as one measure to make the park cat-friendly, the plants there will include catnip.[4][7]
References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedTorStar2017-07-18 - ↑ Chardaé Jones (2018-06-21). "Cat Themed Wellington Cat Promenade Is Replacing The Addisons Residence". Love this city. https://lovethiscitytv.com/cat-themed-wellington-cat-promenade-replacing-addisons-residence/. "Don’t expect for the demolition to happen overnight because word has it that the 1,000 metre cat park won’t be ready until 2022."
- ↑ "The Well Toronto - Public Art Plan". City of Toronto: p. 9. 2019-03-27. Archived from the original on 2019-05-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20190510032431/https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2019/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-131611.pdf. Retrieved 2021-05-08. "This North Plaza will join an existing array of urban parks along Wellington St. In addition to proposed parks 456 Wellington Cat Park and Draper St. Park by Claude Cormier + Associés."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Brian Barth (2020-05-29). "Hell of fun". Landscape Architecture Magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-06-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20200613053605/https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2020/05/29/hell-of-fun/. Retrieved 2021-05-08. "About a mile away, on the west side of downtown, Cormier has designed a cat park—mice and bird statues included, plus catnip—featuring a long, sloping water feature, which has yet to be built."
- ↑ Taylor Simmons (2018-06-20). "Cat-themed parks to replace nightclub in Wellington Street West neighbourhood". CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cat-themed-parks-wellington-street-west-1.4713356.
- ↑ Alex Bozikovic (2016-06-16). "A place for everyone and their dog: Claude Cormier designs Berczy Park with a view to helping people of disparate interests get along". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2017-06-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20170617101822/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/torontos-newly-renovated-berczy-park-a-place-for-everyone-and-theirdog/article35338062/. Retrieved 2021-05-08. "Across the street, its developers are meeting a city requirement by adding a new public park. Mr. Cormier will design it. The theme: a classical promenade, accented with sculptures of cats. “Dogs for the east side, cats for the west side,” Mr. Cormier said. If any Torontonian designer suggested this, it would sound like a joke. But Mr. Cormier is serious – and so are his clients. The new Toronto is already going to the dogs; now the cats will get a piece, too."
- ↑ Lauren O'Neil (June 2018). "Popular Toronto nightclub to be demolished for cat themed park". Blog TO. https://www.blogto.com/city/2018/06/addisons-residence-cat-themed-park-toronto/. "The Addisons Residence, a lounge-meets-club space on the quiet stretch of Wellington Street between Spadina and Bathurst, will officially be demolished to make way for the long-awaited "Wellington Cat Promenade" — one of two new, cat-themed public parks in downtown Toronto."
- ↑ "Toronto Is Getting A Cat Themed Park". Kiss FM. 2017-07-18. https://www.kiss1027.fm/2017/07/18/toronto-geting-cat-themed-park/. Retrieved 2021-05-08. "Claude Cormier is the architect behind the Berczy Park renovation and told The Globe and Mail that, 'the new green space looks like a promising part of the massive mixed use project that’s set to transform Front St. West.'"
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