Wellington Cat Promenade

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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][5] 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 it calls The Well, on the Northwest corner of Spadina and Front, if they compensated for the higher density, by purchasing nearby properties, and turning them into parkspace.[6] The cat promenade was part of that park space.[7]

BlogTO reports that, as one measure to make the park cat-friendly, the plants there will include catnip.[4][8][9]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 David Hains (2017-07-18). "Draper St.’s Dizzy the Cat gets a promenade dedicated to him". Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/07/18/draper-sts-dizzy-the-cat-gets-a-promenade-dedicated-to-him.html. "For years, the plump 13-year-old orange and white cat has been a popular fixture on Draper St. in downtown Toronto." 
  2. ↑ 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." 
  3. ↑ "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. ↑ 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." 
  5. ↑ Marthew Derohanessian (2017-07-27). "Demolition Clearing Site for The Well at Front and Spadina". Urban Toronto. Archived from the original on 2019-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20190301172528/https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2017/07/demolition-clearing-site-well-front-and-spadina. Retrieved 2021-05-08. "Recently announced, another unique feature to the community will be Wellington Street's cat-themed linear park, which will include a promenade with 15 to 20 statuettes of cats in various poses and positions." 
  6. ↑ 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. 
  7. ↑ 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." 
  8. ↑ 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." 
  9. ↑ Kathryn Boothby (2019-11-13). "The Well to deliver an upscale community vibe with a European twist". National Post. https://nationalpost.com/sponsored/homes-sponsored/the-well-to-deliver-an-upscale-community-vibe-with-a-european-twist. Retrieved 2021-05-08. "Meanwhile, a unique cat-themed park appropriately called The Cats is in the works, and will honour local celebrity Dizzy the Cat, who calls the area home. Complete with natural plantings, a cascading water feature, catnip and a selection of cat statues, this area will offer a whimsical western counterpoint to Berczy Park and its dog statues at Wellington Street’s east end." 
  10. ↑ "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.'" 
  11. ↑ "toronto-dog-fountain-hidden-detail-cats-birds". Blog TO. https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/11/toronto-dog-fountain-hidden-detail-cats-birds/. Retrieved 2021-05-08. 
  12. ↑ "Toronto is getting two cat themed parks". Daily Hive. https://dailyhive.com/toronto/toronto-cat-parks-the-well-project. Retrieved 2021-05-08. 
  13. ↑ "toronto-getting-a-cat-themed-park-in-front-street-transformation-project". Indie 88. https://indie88.com/toronto-getting-a-cat-themed-park-in-front-street-transformation-project/. Retrieved 2021-05-08. 
  14. ↑ "toronto-getting-its-first-cat-themed-park". Blog TO. https://www.blogto.com/city/2017/07/toronto-getting-its-first-cat-themed-park/. Retrieved 2021-05-08. 

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