CANCO Breaks Ground on New Public Park Adjacent to Development

By • Aug 31st, 2010 • Category: Blog, News

A rendering of the new park space set to come to Journal Square

A much-needed 15,000 square feet of green space is coming to a mostly industrial area west of Journal Square, thanks to a high-end condo development.

CANCOlofts announced this week that construction has begun on the new park, located across the street from its main building on Dey Street. In the inverse of the famed Joni Mitchell song, the park will replace a parking lot there, and it is slated to be finished and opened to the public by the end of October.

The creation of the park (which the developers have dubbed CANCOpark) comes after the City Council earlier this year revised the redevelopment plan for the area (known as the Marion Works Residential/Office Overlay Zone District), allowing greater density for new construction when a developer builds a new park for the neighborhood.

“The addition of CANCOpark will further enhance a neighborhood that has already been revitalized by the presence of CANCOlofts,” Jodi Stasse, the development’s director of sales and marketing, says in a statement.

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  • Bethe

    Think it’s great; & a real boon for the City. Now it would be swell if we could get something like this actually IN vacant-land limited/surface-parking lot rich JSq; ’cause the City put a new spin on the Lofts: recently advertising venues like [it's] fab gourmet mkt as being in JSq–even while the redev was part of Marion zone district–& those of us remembering AmerCan old timers saying that they were going to work over on West Side!