When the
Junction Festival starts today, there'll be a new public space to celebrate in.
Locally
known as the Cobblestone Public Space, it's a little bit of orphan land
created when the city fiddled with traffic flow in the 1980s, cutting
off a bit of St John's Road at Dundas. They put down cobblestone to
make it pretty, planted a few trees, and a public space was born.
The
space has now been reborn under the direction of Councillor Bill
Saundercook and a neighbourhood committee -- including local architect
Mark Rokowski from
High Park Architects -- which has weeded the place,
installed a gazebo and added seating in the form of about a dozen
squared-off limestone boulders. The revitalized space debuted last
Thursday.
The budget for the whole project was $94,902.23, plus HST.
"The whole atmosphere is quite different," Saundercook says.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Bill Saundercook
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