Project update - November 2024
Construction on the renewed Beaver Hills House Park and Michael Phair Park started in July 2024.
A new plaza, renewed planting beds and a children’s play area will be included in the renewed Beaver Hills House Park. Michael Phair Park will include a busking stage with new lighting and room for food trucks. The design includes enhanced connection between the two parks with the removal of the portion of the wall that existed between the two.
During the first construction season, many activities took place:
- Construction fencing was erected.
- Demolition and removal activities included the removal of the existing water feature, necessary tree removals, the removal of the existing washroom building and the partial removal of the existing retaining wall which used to separate the two park sites.
- Many elements are being saved and protected in order to be re-installed in the new park space.
- Low Impact Development (soil cells) have started being installed in the boulevard along 105 Street.
- Civil servicing updates within 105 Street, Jasper Avenue and throughout the park site have been completed.
- New utilities have been stubbed into where the new washroom building will be built.
- Site grading has begun.
- The new gabion wall to house the updated Aboriginal Walk of Honour has been built.
- Piles have been installed to provide structural support to much of the new site infrastructure.
Throughout the winter months, the public will see work slow down, with only work occurring in the footprint of the new washroom building. Users should expect an uptake in construction activity in May 2025. The park is anticipated to re-open to the public in late fall of 2025.
Please note that the pedestrian walkway along Jasper Avenue has been re-opened to the public for the winter months. It will close again in the spring. The pedestrian walkway along 105 Street will remain closed well into summer 2025.
