A new waterfront plaza is set to be built across from Caesars Windsor.
The Rotary Club of Windsor 1918 and the city have partnered on the $395,000. Funding is being split 50/50.
Past President of the club Janet Kelly chairs the committee overseeing the project for Rotary. She hopes the new plaza can be a place where people can come to have a bit of fun.
"There will be places to sit and relax and the swings we just found — they're like the coolest thing in the world. Can you imagine sitting along the waterfront and swinging, watching the boats go by? I mean, that was perfect."
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Kelly says one element they're hoping to include are giant picture frames.
"You can stand in the picture frame and have your picture taken against the waterfront, so that when you're a visitor in Windsor you're going to be able to have your picture taken and you're going to be able to show people the waterfront, the buildings behind, everything that's there," says Kelly.
The club approached the city in January 2016 about opportunities to partner on a legacy project and the Rotary Centennial Plaza was the result.
Final approval came at last night's city council meeting.
Kelly hopes the new plaza will offer something a bit different from what's already there along the riverfront.
A new plaza funded by the City of Windsor and Rotary Club of Windsor 1918 is set to be built along the waterfront across from Caesars Windsor. (Photo courtesy City of Windsor)
"We want a place where people can go on their lunch hour, taken their children," says Kelly. "We watch people down there, but it's not a nice, fund place — it's just a bench somewhere or a piece of grass. We're hoping that this will be a destination point that people will come back to."
Kelly says the project still needs to be tendered out, but hopes to see shovels in the ground come July or August.
The new plaza is expected to be completed May 2018.