Overview
- City and developer officials officially opened Honest Ed’s Park at 608 Markham St. in Mirvish Village, with Mayor Olivia Chow and members of the Mirvish family attending the ceremony.
- Landscape architect PFS Studio led the design, drawing visual cues from Honest Ed’s iconic signage and arranging the site into a series of garden spaces for recreation and gathering.
- The park includes native trees and plantings intended to support local bird species, seating and picnic areas for visitors, and an interactive water feature designed like a bird bath.
- Adjacent work continues: an 'Honest Ed’s Alley' is being developed to host over a dozen micro-business vendors and a food-hall style offering, and the wider Mirvish Village mixed-use project remains under construction.
- The park repurposes the former Honest Ed’s footprint as public space that preserves the store’s community legacy, creates daily green space for neighbours, and aims to help activate nearby retail and housing in the neighbourhood.