When a Vancouver City Council ordinance to “green” the Hastings corridor was issued, this natural oasis began life as a parking lot covered in an assortment of service buildings on the greater PNE site. First asphalt parking lots, roads and buildings were removed, followed by the subsequent excavation of tens of thousands of meters of subsoil to a total depth of over nine meters to create a hilly two-tiered water park. Then,under direction from Landscape Architects Phillips FarevaagSmallenberg and the Vancouver Parks Board, Landesign began construction of an entirely indigenous ten acre nature park in the heart of Vancouver’s east side.