The Great Canadian Parking Lot Thread! - Page 12

Nashe · #**221** Posted **Feb 26, 2025, 1:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by cbc

"Parts of three floors and the west wall seem to have fallen or been removed from a downtown Ottawa parking garage overnight Tuesday into Wednesday.

Just before 5 p.m. Tuesday, a 911 caller noticed damage to a column on one of the pillars in the parking garage that spans from Slater Street to Laurier Avenue W. just west of O'Connor Street, Ottawa Fire Services said in a news release."

I'm no engineer but... is building theft a common Ottawa problem? I just have to worry about my bike and lawnmower here...

J.OT13 · #**222** Posted **Feb 26, 2025, 1:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nashe

I'm no engineer but... is building theft a common Ottawa problem? I just have to worry about my bike and lawnmower here...

Yeah, strange wording there. I guess they think it could have been a demo crew, but clearly it just fell.

J.OT13 · #**223** Posted **Feb 26, 2025, 1:55 PM**

And they submitted proposal that fits exactly within the zoning last year. Some people suspect they knew the parking structure was very near the end of its life.

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...=140992&page=2

Djeffery · #**224** Posted **Feb 27, 2025, 12:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by J.OT13

Partial collapse of a 1970s era parking structure in Downtown Ottawa. Who knew snow was heavy.

A house in my old neighbourhood in London collapsed this morning from the weight of the wet snow on the roof, but this is something else.

harls · #**225** Posted **Feb 27, 2025, 1:11 AM**

This lot was always sketchy. I used it a couple of times to park for the race weekend around 2013-19. Stairwells always smelled like piss. Only reason I parked there back in the day because it was free on weekends.

Glad I never was flattened.

giallo · #**226** Posted **Feb 27, 2025, 2:00 AM**

Coldrsx took this one of Richmond, BC last month.

J.OT13 · #**227** Posted **Jan 23, 2026, 2:30 PM**

Ottawa's new Civic Hospital parking garage is progressing. The structure is probably complete by now, but the design of the roof top park continues to evolve.

Parking garage is on the right.

it will have an indoor link at the top across the parking. At the end of that link should be a link (skywalk or underground) to Dow's Lake O-Train Station. The roof will have a café, and at some point previously they spoke of washrooms.

Other than regular stairs and elevators, it will also have a ramp system with a nature walk from ground level to the top.

https://ncc-ccn.gc.ca/events/virtual...g-january-2026