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Originally Posted by acottawa
I don't think Ottawa has hectares and hectares of vacant/dormant warehouses and industrial parks.
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Vacant? No. Substantially under-utilized? Definitely.
I look at all the used car dealerships and wreckers on Cyrville, down the street from a transit stop and it looks to me like they are ripe to be redeveloped. Likewise, I look at the secondary malls like Gloucester Centre and they could absolutely be redeveloped into substantially more mixed use. Doesn't make sense to have a multi-billion dollar transit system and then have stores with gigantic surface parking lots beside it. Heck, look at Place d'Orléans. So dead, they needed to host a federal work centre just to get done traffic. If there ever was a sign from the market that a property is ripe for development, I would say drop in daycare for public servants should be one.