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Originally Posted by passwordisnt123
The catch is that the NCC risks the Ottawa Hospital learning and perfecting art of being both beggars and choosers simultaneously, thus making them insufferable for the foreseeable future.
Already, the Ottawa Hospital seems to be taking the news of this free land to mean that they can get even more aggressive in their bargaining position. The Ottawa Hospital has already publicly raised concerns that they might have to pay for the levelling of the buildings on the newly offered free prime real estate (the horrors!) so they're clearly setting themselves up now for an ask whereby the feds not only give them the land for free but also that the federal treasury pay to clear it from nuisance buildings for them.
Also, if The Ottawa Hospital complains loud enough about having to relocate to Tunney's Pasture, the Ottawa Hospital also gets a bit of a secondary bargain in that the NCC won't want to risk making the conflict worse by imposing any conditions on the Hospital's ridiculous so-called "needs". For example, the hospital says it absolutely NEEDS to have 20 acres of surface parking. Anybody with two braincells to rub together can figure out that no downtown hospital needs 20 acres of surface parking but the NCC probably won't push that issue or force the Ottawa Hospital to reconsider because they'd risk a public relations disaster in doing so.
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When you get free land, obviously the cost of surface parking is very cheap. Normally the cost of surface parking is much more because of the value of the land. The expectation of free land is distorting the whole debate on surface parking.