A prominent but little-used part of Waterfront Park would be a good spot for a $260 million performing arts centre, Kelowna city councillors said Monday.

They supported the idea of building the centre, pending further detailed review and budget approval, at the park’s main entrance off Water Street between the Dolphins sculpture and the Delta Grand Hotel’s parkade.

It’s such a little used part of the park, several councillors said, that they didn’t even know it was called Pioneer Gardens. Equally, it hadn’t occurred to them it might be a good spot for the proposed 1,600-seat theatre.

“It’s a site I never would have thought of because it’s sort of just there, but there’s nothing there,” said Coun. Maxine DeHart. “That park of the park is very under-utilized. I walk by there I don’t know

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