Rendering of future NEFC park design

Park design in Northeast False Creek

The Vancouver Park Board, City of Vancouver, and landowner Concord Pacific are working together on parks in Northeast False Creek, embedding design in local First Nations’ cultures to create a place of belonging and connection.

It’s a big plan that will revitalize Andy Livingstone Park and the Downtown Skateboard Plaza, and expand and renew Creekside Park north of Science World. It will also improve habitat for urban wildlife and the shoreline in False Creek. It will be a place to play, replenish, picnic, splash, and connect with others. 

What's happening

We're now in Stage 4

We enhanced our park design guiding principles and confirmed them through a period of extended engagement. These revised guiding principles are organized around the groupings of Identity, Community, Nature, and Destination, and were approved by the Park Board with a report that also provides an update on the engagement process and learnings.

Northeast False Creek Parks – Project Update and Guiding Principles report (802 KB)

Staff is now developing two design approaches based on what we heard with a team of consultants led by James Corner Field Operations and co-designed with a Coast Salish design consultant. 

Our revised principles reflect the time we took to engage more deeply with local First Nations, area communities, and park stakeholders. Adding to the input gathered in 2016-2018 from local residents, event organizers, field sport users, and other park stakeholders, we also better understand the key interests from the Chinatown and Black and African Diaspora communities, whose cultures are directly tied to this part of Vancouver.

Engagement on many City and Park Board projects has been postponed due to COVID-19. When it is safe to do so, we look forward to bringing the new design approaches back to Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, Urban Indigenous Peoples, Chinatown, Black and African Diaspora communities, park stakeholders, and the public for input before a preferred approach is refined. 

Project timeline

Here is our process and anticipated milestones.

  • Fall 2016 to spring 2017

    Stage 1: Analysis and early directions

  • Spring 2017 to summer 2017

    Stage 2: Draft concept plan

  • Fall 2017 to winter 2018

    Stage 3: Extended engagement

     

  • Spring 2019 to 2020

    Stage 4: Revised concept plan and Park Board decision

  • We are here

  • TBD

    TBD

Guiding principles

We’ve added and refined the park design guiding principles defined in the earlier stage of the project. They now reflect what we’ve heard as part of our extended engagement with the three nations, and park stakeholders, including Urban Indigenous people and the Chinatown community.

Key documents

Stage 3: Extended engagement

Stage 2: Draft park concept design

Stage 1: Analysis and early directions

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