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]
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. 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.[3] The cat promenade was part of that park space.
BlogTO reports that, as one measure to make the park cat-friendly, the plants there will include catnip.[4]
References
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ Brian Barth (2020-05-29). "Hell of fun". Landscape Architecture Magazine. https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2020/05/29/hell-of-fun/. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
- ↑ "x". 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.
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