Yesterday, Central Otago Mayor Tim Cadogan and Alexandra Blossom Festival chairwoman Sharleen Stirling-Lindsay announced plans to better utilise the public space.
It involved terracing the park's slopes to make them easier sit on and installing a permanent raised but uncovered stage at the bottom. The slopes would still be grass-covered, but with vertical faces made of stone or concrete.
It would be funded from money raised by the blossom festival.
Mr Cadogan said the grassy slopes made it difficult for some people to sit on, especially for older residents in wheelchairs.
''It is really to facilitate it as a usable public space.''
It was appropriate it was a blossom festival project as the first event in 1957 was held to raise money for the pool which once lay there, he said.
The Centennial Baths were destroyed in 1999 by substantial flooding and the park was constructed in 2003.
Mr Cadogan said a ''very loose'' cost estimate of the project was $250,000. It could take about three years, he said.
Neighbours of the park would be consulted once the Vincent Community Board had signed it off.
''But we imagine limited daytime events. It won't be hosting late-night rock concerts. It's not that kind of space.''
Ms Stirling-Lindsay said the project was a way for the festival committee to give back to the community.
''We thought this is quite a neat wee project and the fact is that this is an amazing piece of land that is not utilised as much as it could be.''
The committee commissioned a design which would be presented at a Vincent Community Board meeting next month.
The board would then have to approve the project.
As the community board chairwoman, Ms Stirling-Lindsay would refrain from taking part in those discussions.
The idea for the project was inspired by a similar public space in Whakatane.
