Tewder
Senior Member
Great news! This park has so much potential.
Wow! I had no idea that the AGO essentially owned the park.
Wow! I had no idea that the AGO essentially owned the park.
i absolutely love grange park. china town to the north, queen west to the south. it is surrounded by beautiful little houses and is now bordered by two of toronto's most important and iconic buildings. it's connection to john street is also a gem. what a little oasis in the city.
i agree it needs a SLIGHT facelift. i would like to see some stone or brick sidewalks replace the current asphalt paths. a fountain would be great too. and some public works of art from local artists would be fantastic. let's not forget the elementary school's facilities there too.
i always loved the drum circles and musicians that find themselves in nyc parks and hope that grange will soon be a more prominent creative hotbed.
i do worry though that the park will become too famous. i love it's somewhat lowkey status. i guess its fame will be inevitable however, and hopefully with that, will come some beautification.
The AGO says the money is being used to retain Greg Smallenberg, of Vancouver’s PFS Studio, to work up a landscape design for the park. Smallenberg’s firm is probably best known in Toronto for designing Sherbourne Common, a combination park/stormwater treatment facility at Sherbourne Street and Queens Quay East.