National Capital Business Park [4120 & 4055 Russell Rd] | U/C
 

Avenue 31 Capital Inc. has tendered a Federal Land Use, Design, and Transaction Approvals (FLUDTA) submission for the National Capital Business Park located at 4120 and 4055 Russell Road in the City of Ottawa. It been developed based on the submission requirements identified at the FLUDTA pre-consultation held between the Avenue 31 and the National Capital Commission on November 13, 2019.

The National Capital Business Park (NCBP) will be a premier business and industrial park to service the warehousing, data communications centres, distribution and employment needs of the National Capital Region by providing over 100,000 m2 (1,000,000 ft2) of new build-to-suit office, warehouse, and industrial space on approximately 40 ha (100 acres) of urban land. The NCBP will be composed of 3 distinct sites and developments planned and designed as a cohesive industrial park through urban design, landscape architecture, and architecture. The sites are described as follows:

Site 1 – 4120 Russell Road
Lot Area: 46 652 m2
Proposed Building Area: 8 325 m2

Site 2 – 4120 Russell Road
Lot Area: 74 718 m2
Proposed Building Area: 17 400 m2

Site 3 – 4055 Russell Road
Lot Area: 283 698 m2
Proposed Building Area: 75 020 m2

Architect: Figurr Architects Collective


Development application:
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/...appId=__BR1JHS

Site:

https://i.imgur.com/IAwVWdW.png

https://i.imgur.com/XUe1nDE.png


Demonstration plan:

https://i.imgur.com/zL78hf6.png


Renderings:

https://i.imgur.com/7ec341V.png

https://i.imgur.com/Jpk7zZN.png

https://i.imgur.com/v01axvE.png

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This seems like a real long shot in term of absorption into the system based on current trends.

Is this an NCC project?

I have the feeling that Ottawa is about to take on it's long elusive but advantageous role as a logistics hub, being located between Montreal and Toronto and fairly central to the Quebec City - Windsor corridor population. Shopify's inevitable move will be a good test bed.

NCC is a partner

Ottawa firm floats 1M-square-foot business park in southeast Ottawa

By: David Sali, OBJ
Published: May 28, 2020 5:43pm EDT

With the region’s stock of available industrial real estate near an all-time low, an Ottawa company says it wants to build more than one million square feet of office, warehouse and industrial space on 100 acres of federal land near the corner of Hunt Club Road and Hwy. 417.

In a development application recently filed at City Hall, local real estate investment firm Avenue31 says it has submitted a proposal to the National Capital Commission to turn NCC-owned property at 4120 and 4055 Russell Rd. into what it calls “a premier business and industrial park.” The company is seeking a 99-year lease from the federal agency to develop the property, which is located just west of the Hunt Club-Hwy. 417 interchange in the Hawthorne-Stevenage Industrial Park.

Dubbed the National Capital Business Park, the proposed development would contain six buildings in various sizes and configurations.

The largest structure, a warehouse covering nearly 700,000 square feet, would be located north of Russell Road on the northwest corner of the property. Five additional buildings ranging from 88,000 square feet to about 110,000 square feet would be situated south of Russell Road “to suit the growing needs of the region’s logistics and industrial users.”

Referring to the property as “one of the only sites of its size in all of the National Capital Region capable of responding to a large logistics and warehouse user,” the developers say the site’s location near major transportation routes would make it a prime hub for companies looking to distribute goods.

“Logistics users recognize great value in time savings to get to and from the highway interchange as a result of direct access to a proposed signalized intersection on Hunt Club Road,” the application says.

Avenue31 did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday. An NCC spokesperson said the agency went through the “standard real estate solicitation process” to find potential tenants for the property, but said he could not provide any more details.

A veteran commercial real estate executive said the proposal could be good news for a local industrial sector that had an availability rate of less than three per cent at the end of 2019, a near-record low.

“I think it’s a marvelous opportunity to have some really prime industrial land for large-block users in the city,” said Shawn Hamilton, managing director of CBRE’s Ottawa office.

Little inventory has been added to the city’s industrial stock in the last two decades, largely due to a lack of development-ready land, Hamilton said. But Ottawa’s location just a few hours’ drive from both the Greater Toronto Area and Montreal is drawing the attention of more and more e-commerce companies looking to satisfy growing consumer demand for same-day deliveries to Canada’s two largest urban centres, he said.

Broccolini’s one-million-square-foot warehouse development for Amazon on Boundary Road put the Ottawa region on the map as a distribution hub, Hamilton said. Since then, the Montreal-based builder has proposed another 700,000-square-foot warehouse for North Gower, a project that’s now under review from the province’s Local Appeal Planning Tribunal after it was approved by council last December.

“People are realizing that we’re really in a sweet spot,” Hamilton said. “We looked at Amazon as almost a fluke. The reality is I don’t think it’s a fluke, and I think more are going to come. We will see more Amazons.”

In its development application, Avenue31 stresses that the plans are still in the preliminary stage, adding the final proposal may change based on market conditions, the needs of prospective tenants and federal, provincial and municipal requirements.

The proposal’s site plan requires the approval of both the NCC and the city, while the province must sign off on various aspects of the proposal such as stormwater management. The company says it will begin targeting potential tenants once the proposal gets to the site plan approval stage at City Hall.

According to a timeline in the development application, Avenue31 hopes to receive the necessary site plan approvals by the end of this year and start construction early in 2021, with the first buildings ready for occupancy by the end of that year.


https://www.obj.ca/article/ottawa-fi...hunt-club-road

The article mentions this direct connection to Hunt Club road, but the map doesn't show one. The map with the arrows does show one pointing off of Hunt Club next to Hydro Ottawa, and the warehouse there has a bit of a stub road leading out that direction, but that seems like a somewhat limited use case.

New renderings:

https://i.imgur.com/TqMaxF2.png

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Building 1

https://i.imgur.com/PvW4qvN.png

Some of the best looking light-industrial buildings I've seen. I know vacancies are low, but can Ottawa support such an explosion of industrial business parks like these?

from LinkedIn recently.... noticed that site prep is underway along the 417.

Avenue 31 is excited to start construction on 143,000 sq. ft. of Industrial Warehouse and Office space at National Capital Business Park in June 2021.

Occupancy will be early 2022.

Tenants will have exceptional access to the 417 via a new municipal road, Last Mile Drive, being constructed this year.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update...5283858714624/
Avenue 31 is pleased to announce that building C is underway at the National Capital Business Park. The shovels are active, and the site is advancing on schedule. This will be a 32’ clear, 147,000 s/f multi-tenant industrial building with exceptional access to the 417 Highway in the East end of Ottawa. Delivery will be for Q2 of 2022.

https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/ima...78ZMvOAwZ5Gaig

https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/ima...JP8A0wQfb-QHKc

Lol. Shouldn't that be "Last Kilometer Drive"? :haha:

Seriously, I wonder if there's any way that a new bus turn-around can be built further east on Hunt Club. It's going to be a pretty far hike from the Hydro Ottawa building bus stop served by the 98.

There's got to be some way to have bus stops installed near the Russell Rd overpass with pedestrian ramps down to Russell.

For sure, this site needs its own internal bus loop.

Missed the story on this one…is the occupant known?

I browsed through the transportation study for this development (http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Im...12-20-0028.PDF [17 MB PDF]) which includes the functional design of Last Mile Dr.

Despite the ridiculous name, it will be a public street, so I guess they will be able to extend some transit trips on it. They are building bus stop pads on Last Mile in front of the new building, but the street has no sidewalks and will be scored a pedestrian level of service "F". :shrug:

Shopify is moving? Where?

No sidewalk :???: WTH :koko:

I'd go as far as sidewalks and bike lanes. Let's hope that common sense prevails.

Shopify has been musing about opening up their own distribution centre network. Plaza 234 Laurier should remain their head office.

It looks like it's designed as a rural cross section. It's got paved shoulders, but it has ditches and no sidewalks. I suspect a future phase (buildings D and E) will extend the pedestrian network, but there will still likely be a gap between those buildings and Hunt Club.

It's it great when we go to efforts to close gaps in the pedestrian network while at the same time we're creating new ones?? :koko:

Ah ok. Interesting.

https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/ima...Ws44xGKagY3sCI
from late last week

https://www.linkedin.com/company/ave...KhATa4qg%3D%3D

the approved drawings are posted. There is a condition of site plan that they construct a sidewalk along Last Mile
https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applica...0-0028/details