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[Mountain Man]

Just walked by this at lunch, looks like they are laying sod & planting trees!

 

[GoVertical]

OMG FINALLY!

 

[Surrealplaces]

Won't see the benefits until after winter, but the park should look great this coming spring.

 

[haltcatchfire]

This coming spring of what year?

Won't see the benefits until after winter, but the park should look great this coming spring.

 

[DougB]

Won't see the benefits until after winter, but the park should look great this coming spring.

Maybe late summer by the time they replace all the sod and trees that die after being planted in October

 

[UrbanWarrior]

All the trees were planted at least a month and a half ago (per my photos), but yeah putting in sod in October is hilarious.

 

[Mountain Man]

Fall is a great time to plant, when everything comes back to life in the spring it will take root quite quickly.

 

[DougB]

Is that true in Calgary? Sure seems like anything planted after about mid August stands a high chance of winter kill.

 

[googspecial]

Is that true in Calgary? Sure seems like anything planted after about mid August stands a high chance of winter kill.

Depends when it was dug out. Lots of stuff that's planted in August is dug out earlier in the season so itsnt doing great after sitting out of the ground for several months. Trees in particular that are dug out in mid/late September will be better for late season planting than something that's sat out of the ground all summer.

 

[googspecial]

Drove by earlier and saw the fountain was on, with some up lighting.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

I'm gonna walk over tomorrow then!

 

[Mountain Man]

I may have to detour on my bikeride home to check it out!

 

[outoftheice]

Two best places to sneak a peek are from midway down the 8 St CTrain platform where there's a gap in the screening that's been put along the fence and from mid block on the south side of Stephen Ave. You can catch a few nice glimpses through the fence along the eastern side too.

It looks nice. A few things I noticed were that the second level walkway connecting the two buildings doesn't appear to have been installed and that the small waterfall next to the wooden seating area that appears to flow down the steps from the Ctrain platform also doesn't appear to have been installed. The also isn't any integration of the park with the steps down from the Ctrain platform at the old Nexen building which means that area remains a bit of a sketchy deadzone.

 

[Beltline_B]

 

[PatriciaE]

I think that in order to enjoy the park the City should do something about the drug addicts and homeless, I will never get close or go with kids to that park. There are always drug addicts. Imagine your kid watching them , what an example