Churchill Square (Edmonton)

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Churchill Square (Officially "Sir Winston Churchill Square") is the main square downtown square in Edmonton, which play host to a large majority of festivals and events (such as the Edmonton International Street Performers Festival, The Works Art & Design Festival, Cariwest and in recent years the annual Pride Festival, which was previously held in Oliver Square, north-west of downtown).

It is bordered on the north by 102A Avenue, on the west by 100 Street, on the south by Harbin Road (102 Avenue) and on the east by Rue Hull (99) Street.

Surrounding the square are several cultural and governmental buildings, including Edmonton City Hall to the north, the Provincial Law Courts of Alberta and the Art Gallery of Alberta to the north-east, Chancery Hall and the Francis Winspear Centre for Music to the east, the Citadel Theatre to the south-east, the Stanley A. Milner Library (the main branch of the Edmonton Public Library) to the south and Edmonton City Centre mall to the west.

Churchill Square has undergone several face-lifts, the most recent, expensive and most controversial being completed in 2004 in time for Edmonton's Centennial Celebrations. These renovations saw the removal of a large amount of green space, as well as the building of several new structures in the square including an amphitheatre, a waterfall, as well as several structures for retail space (currently occupied by the Three Bananas Cafe and Tix on the Square).

Churchill Square is well served by Edmonton Transit System, being located above Churchill LRT Station as well as being at the confluence of the several major bus routes (1 WEM-Capilano, 2 WEM-Clareview, 3 Jasper Place-Cromdale, 6 Mill Woods-Downtown, 8 Mill Woods-Abbotsfield).