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New Pocket Park Coming to Downtown New Canaan
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Town residents soon will see a pocket park with benches and wireless services go in on the corner of South Avenue and Maple Street, New Canaan Library’s director said. The library last April bought the .27-acre lot and razed a house on it. It isn’t clear whether or how the flat, cleared area will figure into the rebuilt New Canaan Library, still a nascent project in its planning stages. (Right now, the library is getting an idea of how much money can be raised in private donations for a capital campaign—a figure that will inform, at least in part, what type of building will go up.)
In the meantime, a committee of the library is “very keen on creating an attractive, nice and usable” pocket park there for New Canaan, said Lisa Oldham, director of the downtown facility since July. “We would like—and we will see if we can do this—to put in some WiFi capability,” Oldham said.