Posted Oct 1, 2014, 2:54 PM
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I'm surprised to see how many posters who regularly complain about the painfully-slow pace of the first phase of redevelopment at Lebreton Flats are now so keen to have the second phase of development anchored by (anchored to?) a new hockey arena that we won't need for -- what? -- a dozen years? A project that at the very least would necessitate half that time in painful negotiations around planning and financing the arena.
I'd love to see Ottawa's arena downtown, and LF makes great sense in principle, but there's a "but" coming: Y'all realize that choosing this path probably means that the vast majority of the site stays as it is -- a bombed-out gravel waste isolating the b/west side of town from the CBD -- easily for another decade?
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