Ecology North and the City of Yellowknife have announced the winners of the YK Pop-Up Park competition.
“The community projects announced today will help bring colour, joy and vibrancy to a once vacant space in Yellowknife's downtown core,” stated Ecology North in a news release.
Aurora Seating by Katharine Thomas
The competition winners will be given a space in Yellowknife's first pop-up park, along with $500 to build their proposals on the vacant 50/50 lot.
The five winners are Aurora Seating by Katharine Thomas, a learning and literacy garden by NWT Literacy Council, Mini-Golf by Jessica Bruhn, an Indigenous languages mural by Jacey Firth-Hagen of #SpeakGwichinToMe and Tire(d) Garden by Harrison Roberts.
Work to install the designs is already starting, as Ecology North and the city regrade the site and install a pallet deck and plant trees and edible plants.
Once the installations are complete, they will take up half of the lot, leaving the other half for permanent landscaping.