Yaletown Park Officially Opens This Saturday

June 25, 2008 (No. 34) - The public is invited to the official opening of Yaletown Park, a new community plaza in historic Yaletown. The celebration will include a ribbon cutting ceremony, refreshments, face painting and live jazz music.

11 am - 12 noon
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Yaletown Park
(901 Mainland at Nelson Street )

Yaletown Park was designed as an urban gathering space built atop public underground parking. The 0.4 acres of public space is paved with granite blocks studded with curving pieces of old granite curbs for informal seating under a canopy of ornamental flowering trees. Screens overgrowing with vines line the border with Nelson Street.

The park was created in partnership between the City of Vancouver and developer Bruno Wall (Yaletown Park Condominiums Properties). Wall contributed the property and paid $0.5 million which represents half the park construction cost, with the City paying the balance out of Downtown South development cost levies.

Park design was by landscape architects Durante and Kreuk Ltd. T. Moscone & Bros. Landscaping Ltd. was the general contractor.

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For more information, contact: Joyce Courtney, Manager of Communications, at 604-257-8699.
www.vancouverparks.ca

 

The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation maintains 220 parks and 40 major facilities throughout the City of Vancouver. The Park Board's mission is to provide, preserve and advocate for parks and recreation services to benefit people, communities and the environment.

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