2.5 PARKS&OPENSPACES
spaces for business, spill out spaces for retail events and potentially Town programmed areas. Improvements to the existing public space network include: • Expansion and enhancement of the Tillsonburg Clock Tower plaza (located at southwest corner of the intersection of Broadway and Bridge Streets). • Expansion and enhancement of the Civic Sculpture parkette (located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Broadway and Oxford Streets). • Bookending the central area with outdoor spaces to sit, relax, eat, chat, etc. • Opening up the World War One Memorial Plaza (located in front of the Tillsonburg Town Centre Mall) to create usable space for pedestrians to sit, relax, eat, chat, etc., by removing the fencing which surrounds the memorial and, where possible, incorporating
Tillsonburg’s Central Area is defined, and bounded, by an extensive and inter-connected system of natural open spaces. This system provides the area with an enviable asset of natural amenities. Through future development, opportunities exist to capitalize on this asset. The Central Area contains four small urban parkettes and plazas. These spaces contain landmark structures, monuments, and public art features. Opportunities exist to create additional urban parkettes and plazas, and to transform these spaces into significant anchors or nodes, creating points of interest and activity along the Broadway Street Corridor. The “potential” urban parkettes, plazas, and public spaces (identified on the facing page) represent potential gathering and programmable spaces within the downtown. Establishing usable open spaces along Broadway Street is particularly important as they would provide amenity
World War One Memorial at the Tillsonburg Town Centre.
Tillsonburg Clock Tower.
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Tillsonburg Central Area Design Study
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