Wellington Cat Promenade

Toronto's Wellington Cat Promenade will be a short park, between Wellington Street and King Street, West of Spadina, in the enterainment district.[1][2]

Claude Cormier designed the park, and its amusing statues of cats, and hidden mice.[1] Cormier had previously designed the well-regarded dog fountain in Berczy Park. The Berczy Park dog fountain included one cat, and the Cat Promenade includes one dog statue.

A property developer received permission to redevelop a 7.8 acres (3.2 hectares) property, if the compensated for the higher density, if they purchased nearby properties, and turned them into parkspace.[3] The cat promenade was part of that park space.

BlogTO reports that, as one measure to make the park cat-friendly, the plants there will include catnip.[4]

References
  1. David Hains (2017-07-18). "Draper St.'s Dizzy the Cat gets a promenade dedicated to him". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2017-08-05. Retrieved 2019-06-05. For years, the plump 13-year-old orange and white cat has been a popular fixture on Draper St. in downtown Toronto.
  2. Chardaé Jones (2018-06-21). "Cat Themed Wellington Cat Promenade Is Replacing The Addisons Residence". Love this city. Archived from the original on 2018-08-23. Retrieved 2019-06-05. Don’t expect for the demolition to happen overnight because word has it that the 1,000 metre cat park won’t be ready until 2022.
  3. Taylor Simmons (2018-06-20). "Cat-themed parks to replace nightclub in Wellington Street West neighbourhood". CBC News. Archived from the original on 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  4. Lauren O'Neil (June 2018). "Popular Toronto nightclub to be demolished for cat themed park". Blog TO. Archived from the original on 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2019-06-05. The Addisons Residence, a lounge-meets-club space on the quiet stretch of Wellington Street between Spadina and Bathurst, will officially be demolished to make way for the long-awaited "Wellington Cat Promenade" — one of two new, cat-themed public parks in downtown Toronto.

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