LeBreton Flats 2.0 (RendezVous LeBreton) | Cancelled

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I think a serious flaw with both proposals (and I don't think it is necessarily the fault of the applicants but the process the NCC set up) is we have no idea the triggers that would be involved for the attractions to actually get built.

Does the French School Board have funding in place to build a school? Are they hoping to apply to the province for funding? Are they going to sit on the land until more francophones move downtown?

Does the Y have funding in place to build a Y? (Ys are closing at a fairly rapid pace, I wonder if they have the money to build a big new one. Is this a relocation of the centretown Y?

Are the Sens going to build the practice rink/abilities centre or is this supposed to be a municipal project?

What are the triggers that would lead to the Devcore attractions being built? The architect told Paul Wells "The big stuff—the arena, the bandshell—would come later." Will the moon crater stay until "later"?

We know that even a successful condo project in Ottawa only builds a tower every few years. What will the flats look like 5, 10 years from now. Are they going to clean up the site and put up temporary landscaping, or will there be a fenced off toxic site for decades?

I think the reason I am strongly in favour of the Sens proposal is they seem most ready to put a shovel into the ground. One could reasonably expect that in 10 years there will be an arena there. I'm not sure what we can expect from devcore in 10 years.