{"id":6775,"date":"2009-09-23T14:12:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T18:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2009-09-23T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:06:12","slug":"help-name-the-new-douglas-coupland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/09\/23\/help-name-the-new-douglas-coupland-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Help name the new Douglas Coupland park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Name The Park\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/homepage-graphics\/homepage4-name-the-park.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spacing Magazine, the City of Toronto, and Ward 20 City Councillor Adam Vaughan have teamed up to give Torontonians a chance to name a new park. This new green space, which is located between Spadina and Bathurst on the north side of Fort York Boulevard, has not been formally named.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This spectacular new park in the downtown core, whose design was inspired by the vision of noted Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland was recently unveiled by developer Concord Adex Inc. The $8 million, 8-acre park in the City Place neighborhood, the first new major downtown public park to be opened in over a decade, is the culmination of over five years of planning and construction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEADLINE<\/strong>: October 13, 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/name-the-park\/\"><strong>FOLLOW THIS LINK TO MAKE YOUR SUBMISSION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"black line\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/line-black-500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"20\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Magazine, the City of Toronto, and Ward 20 City Councillor Adam Vaughan have teamed up to give Torontonians a chance to name a new park. This new green space, which is located between Spadina and Bathurst on the north side of Fort York Boulevard, has not been formally named. This spectacular new park in<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/09\/23\/help-name-the-new-douglas-coupland-park\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Help name the new Douglas Coupland park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Help name the new Douglas Coupland park - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/09\/23\/help-name-the-new-douglas-coupland-park\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Help name the new Douglas Coupland park - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Magazine, the City of Toronto, and Ward 20 City Councillor Adam Vaughan have teamed up to give Torontonians a chance to name a new park. 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