Immediately after mid-day highlighted how residents of Lokmanya Nagar in Thane had been waiting for nine years for the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) to convert the neglected Appa Saheb Patil Garden into a Bollywood-themed park, the civic body said it would open the facility to the public soon after sprucing it up. On December 25, this newspaper revealed how the 4,000-sq-m plot where the theme park was to come up is a hotspot for drug addicts and anti-social elements. Frustrated residents told this reporter that they would be happy to settle for a regular garden.