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Perhaps a more realistic version of this:

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The section of the waterfront promenade along the east side of the silos has finally opened after the rebuilding of the dockwall was completed and the granite setts were laid, trees were planted in silva cells, and benches were installed. This has allowed the reopening of Ireland Park at the foot of Bathurst Quay. We have a front page story on it all here with new photos.

If you read the story you'll see that you might want to head down there soon as the park and promenade may have to be temporarily closed when rebuilding of the north dockwall of the Portland slip gets under way. Here's hoping they'll be able to keep it open. Access from the west of the park is currently blocked by Billy Bishop Airport tunnel construction.

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interchange42 said:
The section of the waterfront promenade along the east side of the silos has finally opened after the rebuilding of the dockwall was completed and the granite setts were laid, trees were planted in silva cells, and benches were installed. This has allowed the reopening of Ireland Park at the foot of Bathurst Quay. We have a front page story on it all here with new photos.

If you read the story you'll see that you might want to head down there soon as the park and promenade may have to be temporarily closed when rebuilding of the north dockwall of the Portland slip gets under way. Here's hoping they'll be able to keep it open. Access from the west of the park is currently blocked by Billy Bishop Airport tunnel construction.

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Have to say the semi-ruined look of the silo complex goes very well with the visual feel of the park. It's really too bad that the West8/DTAH granite paving wasn't extended to the south along the Western Channel.

AoD
 
Maybe that will come once the Billy Bishop Tunnel construction is done? It would be good to have the promenade continue through Little Norway Park as far as Stadium Road.

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Additional photos that weren't included in the story:

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Ireland Park by Marcanadian, on Flickr
 
Great shots! I'm looking forward to cycling down there soon.

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When family/visitors come they might be a bit reticent about visiting Ireland Park, because, you know, is it Irish or just schlock-Irish. Then I'll tell them about how it opened, closed, opened again but it might close again and they will be relieved - a fiasco truly in the style of Ireland :D You can keep your gate Chinatown East because we've got Schrodinger's Park!
 
It's no fiasco, just a fact of its complicated location. We're in the process of making over this city, and it can be a messy job.

I made it down there around 6 PM this evening. As cool as the chipped out striations look in the adjacent silos, that structure needs to be fixed up and the fence surrounding it needs to come down. Ireland Park's Western Channel edge also needs a makeover… which we might get after the tunnel is done and the west access opens. It's an interesting park, but it looks too hard done by for the moment, somewhat disrespected. It may be a few years before we really have what we want here.

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Can you think of another public facility in this city that has had such restricted public access in the first SEVEN YEARS of its existence? I can't think of one. If the relationship between the City (or at least the Ward Councillor) and the TPA wasn't so antagonistic, maybe a deal could have been done such that the eastern access would be completed prior to the tunnel works on the west side.
 
Yes, Union Station from 1920-27, which I think is far more of a travesty given the scale. Anyways, there were a whole bunch of issues with the site (silos, dockwall repair, pedestrian tunnel) that were not resolved prior to the building of the park - squabbling between TPA and the city is but a minor component I think.

AoD
 
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An older part of the Central Waterfront that's currently an uninviting mishmash of the island airport dropoff, parking lots, co-op housing, gas stations, a school and the Malting Silos.

Fortunately there seems to be some community groups organizing to fix this:

Bathurst Quay Precinct Plan Revitalization
posted by Norman di Pasquale on June 04, 2017

At the Bathurst Quay Neighbourhood Association AGM on May 10th, Waterfront Secretariat Bryan Bowen showed the City's revitalization plans, scheduled to be done by 2018.

Waterfront For All strongly supports the city's vision for the space. Scroll on to see some artist concept previews of the work that will add the Bathurst Quay to the waterfront revitalization:
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http://www.waterfrontforall.ca/bathurst_quay

A link to the pdf:
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.n...n_on_silo_site_and_taxi_corral.pdf?1496626355
 
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