Major upgrade West Row Park starts tomorrow
A major redesign of West Row Park, funded by city centre property owners via Canberra CBD Limited, starts tomorrow (5 January).
Canberra CBD Limited will spend more than $600,000 on the park and the ACT Government another $100,000 on adjacent works.
‘This is our most significant capital investment to date,’ said Canberra CBD Limited CEO, Linda Staite. ‘The park, at the corner of London Circuit and West Row, has suffered from the drought. We are thrilled to be refurbishing it, and to new levels of visual and practical amenity.’
Acting Chief Minister, Katy Gallagher MLA, said ‘West Row Park is a small but valued green space in the city centre. This investment partnership by the Government and Canberra CBD Limited is a great example of how the Government and property owners can work cooperatively on city centre improvements.’
Mrs Staite said the existing mature trees would be retained, but smaller scrubby bushes and a pittosporum would be replaced with more harder species.
‘There will be bike racks, more seating, improved lighting and paved paths that criss-cross the park in the directions that people currently walk through it, and a small grassed area.’
The existing sculpture Red and Blue (Inge King) will be a centrepiece of the park ‘and visually integrated with its distinctive red and blue picked up in the park paving, walls and seating. The Friday markets will return to the park when work is completed.
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