Ottawa Senators LeBreton Arena | 11 Acres | In Planning
 

BREAKING | New milestone for the #BuildingLeBreton project.

We’ve signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Capital Sports Development Inc (CDSI), a group led by
@Senators
for the development of a major event centre at LeBreton Flats. | #OttNews #Ottawa

https://twitter.com/NCC_CCN/status/1...7Ctwgr%5Etweet


"Proposal includes an NHL hockey arena and events venue surrounded by mixed-use development.

CSDI will develop its concept and an implementation plan in the coming months. The NCC and CSDI will also work to sign a long-term lease agreement for the site by the fall of 2023."


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Wowwwwww! So Exciting. Beautiful rendering

Here's a higher resolution copy of that one render for anyone who wants it (click the image to see the full res)

https://i.imgur.com/H6WawVxh.png

Good news! Did the NCC give a timeline or any sense on when we might expect construction to start?

Presentation
https://ncc-website-2.s3.amazonaws.c...ion_ju2022.pdf

Capital Sports Development, Inc. (CSDI), along with partners:
• Ottawa Senators/ Capital Sports Management, Inc.
• Sterling Project Development
• Populous
• Tipping Point Sports
• Live Nation

Staff report on next Flats Phase - going out to market in June, goal is for construction starting 2024
https://ncc-website-2.s3.amazonaws.c...g-LeBreton.pdf

Lol, love the Daugavins shirt.

Hey, he'll only be 40 when this thing opens. Don't rule out a triumphant return just yet.

I love it, it looks incredible. This will easily be one of the top arenas in the league. With having a good group of consortium members - Live Nation, Sterling Project Development (real estate management firm from UBS Arena), Tipping Point Sports, and Populous - I think this proposal has a much better shot than any previous ones.

As far as timelines go, it seems the NCC wants to have a lease agreement ready by the end of the year, and signed by fall of 2023.

Am I right in saying that while these are all huge outfits, none of them actually invest in venues? If so, gotta wonder where the money is going to come from. Is there a breakdown in terms of who comprises Capital Sports Development?

Haha. I had to look him up. 91 NHL games 6G 9A, hasn't played in Ottawa since the 2012-2013 season.

Maybe this proposal was drawn up a long time ago?

I like it a lot though.

Glad that it's finally been approved. While not in the heart of the CBD, it will no doubt add more entertainment value to the wider downtown area. Love the renderings.. although what's the body of water with the people kayaking and canoeing ?

Its the Nepean Bay Inlet

Had this been built 20-30 years ago, it probably would not have done much for the traditional downtown, but the O-Train is a game changer. People can easily take the train a few stops and go to Sparks, Occo on Bay, Queen Street Fare, Elgin, the Market. Or down to Preston. Or West to Hintonburg or Preston. It could be like Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver where everything on a transit line is accessible before and after the game.

Outside the Sens, not a single local player? Might be a good thing.

Though I think an arena is the best use for the site and I'm really happy the idea is being revived, I do wonder about the process. Who were the other groups? Was it all rigged for the Sens? Should the NCC work with the Sens again after the disastrous collapse of the last deal?

Side note - haven't watched the NCC Board meeting yet and probably won't for a few days, so what happened to the second, smaller parcel in the park area?

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Love seeing an arena that's integrated in the urban fabric with attached towers instead of a stand alone. I just wonder where the receiving bays will be. Wish they could build over the tracks.

My assumption is that City Centre Ave extenstion will have some sort of under arena loading dock connection

Ottawa Senators win bid for downtown arena on LeBreton Flats

Blair Crawford, Ottawa Citizen
Jun 23, 2022 • 1 hour ago • 2 minute read

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The Ottawa Senators will moved downtown to a new arena on LeBreton Flats in a deal the National Capital Commission called a “transformational, city-building moment” that will fundamentally change downtown Ottawa.

The memorandum of understanding announced Thursday by the NCC will see the Senators and a bevy of deep-pocketed partners build a new rink on a 7.5 acre parcel of land on Albert Street between Preston Street and City Centre Avenue. The land, to be leased to the consortium, is just west of the site of Adisoke, Ottawa’s new central library now under construction.

While the hockey arena was the showpiece of Thursday’s announcement, the NCC will also begin accepting offers next week on a new mixed residential development on Wellington Street opposite the Canadian War Museum. That project, to be known as the Flats District, will see up to 800 new housing units in blocks of six storeys with set back towers of between 12 and 20 storeys. The housing will be modelled after neighbourhoods in the Netherlands with curb-less, narrow streets and a central aqueduct that currently flows underground through the area.

The housing development will include affordable housing units and an agreement to ensure economic benefit for suppliers and workers from the Algonquin Nation, on whose unceded land the development stands.

The NCC will accept requests for offers to lease the land from developers from June 29 until Oct. 5. It hopes to begin signing deals in early 2024 with construction beginning near the end of 2024.

Mayor Jim Watson, who sits on the NCC board of directors and likened the LeBreton Flats saga to the movie Groundhog Day, praised the agreement.

“Nothing is easy with LeBreton Flats,” Watson said. “But at the end of the day, the NCC has brought forward a plan that is realistic.”

A previous deal to bring the Senators downtown ended acrimoniously in 2018 in lawsuits and counter-lawsuits between the team’s former owner, Eugene Melnyk, and his partner in the deal, businessman John Ruddy.

“It’s an opportunity for us to thank the Senators for not giving up on this proposal,” Watson said Thursday. “The easy thing to do when things went south last time would be to pick up your notepad and your chequebook and leave. And you didn’t do that.”

Michael Foderick, an NCC board member from Toronto, said Thursday’s deal could transform downtown Ottawa in the way the Toronto Maple Leaf’s Air Canada Centre transformed downtown Toronto.

“This is fundamentally going to change, for the better, the nature of downtown Ottawa,” Foderick said. “We’re going see new residential units in a part of the city that needs that night life, that 24 hour presence there. I’ve seen how it’s transformed downtown Toronto.

Those residential units bring light around the clock, not just during office hours.

“Just when the office workers are heading out, that’s when the hockey fans are coming in. They come in with their jerseys and their kids. The come in for a bite to eat and they’re having fun downtown. It brings this whole element of life to the downtown.”

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...lebreton-flats

Not sure how accurate this is. Sounds like a joke.

https://twitter.com/TSNSimmer/status...QgjZuegYV1gqdw

Delete.

From Albert:

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Overview:

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