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Downtown St. Paul Voice

City picks final design for Pedro Park, finally

In late March, the City of St. Paul’s Parks and Recreation department announced the final design for Pedro Park. As shown here, it features a shelter, cafe tables, bench seating, a play area, plaza, pet zone, pocket gardens, fountain/splash pad, a diagonal path through the park, and a bee lawn, which includes low-growing perennial flowers and grasses that provide food and nesting spaces for bees and other pollinators. The city will work with the nonprofit Friends of Pedro Park and the St. Paul Parks Conservancy to find the funds for the build-out of the nearly half-block park. During the fundraising process, the city is expected to add interim park features, such as grass, trees and benches. No timeline is set for when the park will be complete.

Since 2017, Pedro Park has been home to a .45-acre flower field with very few trees, amenities or community programming. The land was donated by the Pedro family following demolition of the Pedro Luggage building. The creation of a park in this neighborhood was originally called for in the 2006 Fitzgerald Park Precinct Plan. For more information, visit www.stpaul. gov and search Pedro Park.