Wrexham proprietor Ryan Reynolds has been “gifted” an space of the town for his birthday – with plans in place to rework it right into a park in his honour.

Reynolds obtained the particular forty seventh birthday present in Wrexham metropolis centre from the club’s co-owner Rob McElhenney.

A video within the type of US sitcom Parks and Recreation was launched to coincide with the announcement and featured McElhenney and Hollywood star Chris Pratt, who performed Andy Dwyer within the present.

The web site for Parks & Wrex – which reveals plans to develop the previous theatre web site right into a group area – stated the Ryan Rodney Reynolds Memorial Park on the coronary heart of Wrexham can be a spot for the general public “to gather, grow and play” when it is completed.

It stated the park can be “a mirrored image of the spirit of Wrexham and Wales“.

The web site additionally encourages folks to “visit some of the wonderful businesses” within the metropolis centre.

It stated the park can be renamed “probably something Welsh, not Canadian”.

Reynolds and McElhenney purchased the North Wales-based soccer membership in 2020.

Its story has been the topic of a Disney+ documentary, Welcome to Wrexham.

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Wrexham council chief, Councillor Mark Pritchard, stated after the council bought the previous Hippodrome web site final 12 months, it has had “exactly the same ambition as Rob to bring the space back into use as some sort of community park”.

“Rob’s vision fits so well with our placemaking ambitions for the city centre and the early proposals for developing it into pop-up space for our community and attracting visitors to this part of town is really intriguing,” he stated.

“The added bonus of having Rob and Ryan involved in the regeneration of the site with a few quirky ideas which only they can do is fantastic and we’ll really look forward to working together as their plans develop.”

If plans are authorised by Wrexham Council as soon as formally submitted, the Ryan Rodney Reynolds Memorial Park might be redeveloped and maintained by McElhenney and Reynolds.