Middleton’s 125 Park getting facelift

By Heather Killen

Spectator

NovaNewsNow.com

The 125 Park in Middleton is getting a facelift for the town’s Centennial.

The town public works crews were busy last week revitalizing the 125 park in the middle of town. Earlier this summer, the fences were taken down and old tennis courts were torn up.

Clayton MacMurtry, town CAO, told council on September 23 that while the building would remain standing at least temporarily, the crew would be filling in the area over the former courts and preparing the space for new grass.

“We’re leaving the building up for now, it has public washrooms and has a hook-up for power,” he said. “We don’t know if we can save the building yet, so we’re going to leave it for now.”

The Middleton Farm Market committee is considering new sites for the popular event, and may move it next year from the Commercial Street location to the park.

If the building is salvageable, the market committee may want to maintain public access to the facility.

MacMurtry added that the committee is also looking at ways to provide a covered space for the market and may partner with the town to construct a shelter.

The town is also revamping the parking area on the east side of the park and the concrete footpath that cuts across the corner. MacMurtry added that this is the first phase of the park’s redesign.

Over the next few weeks and throughout next year, the town will be sprucing up the green spot with plans to rename it next year in honour of the town’s centennial.

Crews are also preparing an area that will serve as the base for an iron pergola that is being commissioned and donated by the Rotary Club in honour of the centennial.

This structure will stand as a focal point in the park within a green space with benches and decorative trees. The town is supplying the benches and trees for the garden area.

MacMurtry said that in the future, a pathway will lead through additional gardens and grassy spaces on the south side of the former tennis courts.