3 September 2020. Features The park is promoted as a bustling and open district revitalising a forgotten part of the city, effectively extending the city centre southwards. Andrew Cobden, managing director of Vastint UK, said: "The South Bank has been really fragmented over the years. We feel we have a real opportunity to connect parts of the city back together." As well as a 400-bed hotel and other architectural developments, 500 trees are planned to be planted. The park area will be divided into 5 character areas: The Tetley Triangle — Event Space to the north-west of the Tetley – hard surfaced event space for concerts, markets, outdoor cinema, outdoor café space, approximately the size of half the paved area of Millennium Square The Tetley Triangle — The Green – to the west of the Tetley - grassed and stepped amphitheatre for informal performance and sitting, a similar size to Merrion Street Gardens Theatre Gardens — north of Salem Chapel - modern ornamental and sensory garden for quiet enjoyment The Central Park — east of the Tetley to Crown Point Road - including significant parkland including grassed areas and trees, water feature, play area and grassed mound Link Ways — greened communal connectors between new building plots with wide pathways, trees, planting, and benches As part of a regeneration masterplan for the whole South Bank of Leeds, Aire Park will be integrated with improvements to the surrounding area, particularly by extending the greenspace across City Council owned land to a new footbridge over the River Aire linking to Sovereign Street and Leeds station. Additionally, plans have been submitted to reopen the derelict Crown Hotel on Crown Point Road as a pub and restaurant space, which has been closed since the early 1990s, and to include a memorial to David Oluwale, a British Nigerian who drowned in the River Aire in 1969. In 2022 work started on a new bridge over the river, crossing from Sovereign Street to Water Lane, to be known as the David Oluwale Bridge. References Geography of West Yorkshire Parks and commons in Leeds Urban public parks in the United Kingdom