One of the parks in Nizhny Novgorod that has recently attracted a lot of attention with the mass media, environmental experts and Nizhny Novgorod residents in connection with the construction project of a new shopping mall Park House on the territory of this protected oak forest alleys.
In 2002 the park administration and the municipal entity in charge of the park maintenance were both liquidated. At present the park is supervised by a community organization NGO Zeleny Parus. The City Council has taken a decision to build a shopping mall on this park site. In 2006-2007 there were a number of legal lawsuits against the contractor company in charge of the shopping mall project and the judgment was granted in favor of the park defenders and it`s now getting restored.
In May 2014 it became clear that complete restoration of the park is delayed until 2015 due to lack of the budget funds of Nizhny Novgorod city.