Downtown outdoor spaces

[panamaniac]

Residents of King East have been wanting to get some kind of green space in the area for a while. There is a property on Cedar (by Nova Era across from the Market) is currently for sale and even if that could be turned into some small parkette or something, it would be great. There is the tiny bit of green space at Cedar/Weber but it really only has two benches and not much else, plus it faces Weber so it's not exactly a spot you want to spend time in. Maybe one of the many developments that are planned will eventually have something. Any time we want to go to a park we typically end up going to the Central Frederick neighbourhood (Brubacher Park/Suddaby/Firefighter Park). Something a bit closer would be nice.

I think that's a challenging area since there are only one or two blocks between King and Weber, and then another block to Charles, so getting far away from busy streets is pretty difficult, and there are not many larger e.g. commercial) properties that could be turned into a park, apart from things directly on King St E. How is the noise level at Wallenberg Park at Weber and Belzner? It's on Weber but set back from the street.

Knollwood Park is pretty big but maybe too far in the other direction?

I had to look that one up.  All these years, I had never known it was there!