grad club update
in my queen's-related info binge yesterday i decided to see what's up with the proposed university ave and union street renovation (?) projects. a year ago a firm presented 3 different visions of the streetscape, 2 of which involved bulldozing the grad club to make way for - wait for it - a round-a-bout. ???
here's a smallish pic of what that would look like - the grad club has been replaced with "soft landscaping"
the blue thing in the middle looks like some mechanical turtle or something... errr...
well, on march 6th there was another meeting and the suspicious soft landscaping had been replaced, this time with a grad club (yah!). however they now want to tear down the nice wooden fence, extend the sidewalk and put in a new metal fence, thus killing, or severely wounding the patio. Details are here.
so - when will this take place you're wondering? jeanne ma, who led the discussings in the spring, gave this estimate...
“This is a planning project that has no current funding,” she said. “The intent [with this meeting] was to make sure people were informed.”
The project currently has no donor, and a donor is not actively being sought.
“Fundraising is managed by the Office of Advancement. This is simply a planning project. It is not my role to deal with fundraising,” she said.
apparently the university street project is not in the same dire straits as its perpendicular cousin. ma says that donors are actually pumped about this renovation and have already ponied up 5.5 million. ma says...
"Last November I was made aware that an anonymous donor was interested in helping to green the campus by planting trees. But to honour the donor’s gift, we had to do something more than just plant trees. Given the state of our urban forest, Queen’s wouldn’t have been able to guarantee their survival. We needed to create an environment in which trees would survive, but also one that would serve a bigger purpose of making Queen’s more livable, functional and memorable, a place where people want to belong and come back to … all of those things. So, through Queen’s Office of Advancement, I proposed that the donor’s gift be used for the University Avenue renovation, and the donor agreed to it. Subsequently another donor came forward and was also interested in supporting it."
the work will be done by these guys who're becoming the go-to team for queen's landscaping needs.
here's a pic of a rather boring vision - notice the median has disappeared...
they're also designing the overall campus masterplan as regards to landscaping... their plan includes the tindall field make-over - notice how it has shifted next to maccorry and that there are now a series of buildings where the field used to sit. interesting... the underground parking garage is underneath the turf.
here's a smallish pic of what that would look like - the grad club has been replaced with "soft landscaping"
the blue thing in the middle looks like some mechanical turtle or something... errr...
well, on march 6th there was another meeting and the suspicious soft landscaping had been replaced, this time with a grad club (yah!). however they now want to tear down the nice wooden fence, extend the sidewalk and put in a new metal fence, thus killing, or severely wounding the patio. Details are here.
so - when will this take place you're wondering? jeanne ma, who led the discussings in the spring, gave this estimate...
“This is a planning project that has no current funding,” she said. “The intent [with this meeting] was to make sure people were informed.”
The project currently has no donor, and a donor is not actively being sought.
“Fundraising is managed by the Office of Advancement. This is simply a planning project. It is not my role to deal with fundraising,” she said.
apparently the university street project is not in the same dire straits as its perpendicular cousin. ma says that donors are actually pumped about this renovation and have already ponied up 5.5 million. ma says...
"Last November I was made aware that an anonymous donor was interested in helping to green the campus by planting trees. But to honour the donor’s gift, we had to do something more than just plant trees. Given the state of our urban forest, Queen’s wouldn’t have been able to guarantee their survival. We needed to create an environment in which trees would survive, but also one that would serve a bigger purpose of making Queen’s more livable, functional and memorable, a place where people want to belong and come back to … all of those things. So, through Queen’s Office of Advancement, I proposed that the donor’s gift be used for the University Avenue renovation, and the donor agreed to it. Subsequently another donor came forward and was also interested in supporting it."
the work will be done by these guys who're becoming the go-to team for queen's landscaping needs.
here's a pic of a rather boring vision - notice the median has disappeared...
they're also designing the overall campus masterplan as regards to landscaping... their plan includes the tindall field make-over - notice how it has shifted next to maccorry and that there are now a series of buildings where the field used to sit. interesting... the underground parking garage is underneath the turf.
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