The one-time residential lots were bought up by the City back in the 1960s -1970s with a view to repurposing the land to develop "pristine woodlands" -- myself and urban Planner Larry Taylor convinced the City to stop this idiocy (much as we should be doing now with the City's program to buy up residential lots in Boyle Street, demolishing the houses thereon and then hoping to sell to a developer for some grand refresh scheme). The City finally did stop but ended up with ownership of a disjointed puzzle of raw land and absolutely no idea of what to do with it. I have proposed that it be a site along with the Historic Power Plant Building for a permanent World Indigenous Peoples' Exposition -- that idea (with the City) is slow to take root.