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waterloowarrior · #**181** Posted **Mar 6, 2010, 6:02 PM**

SBC9 flickr - looks like the podium brick is up to the third floor

eemy · #**182** Posted **Mar 7, 2010, 12:14 PM**

I have to say that the building itself looks far better than its rendering.

Davis137 · #**183** Posted **Mar 7, 2010, 11:11 PM**

This is going to look decent when it's finshed...

harls · #**184** Posted **Mar 8, 2010, 1:57 AM**

Shot today from Hull by me.

harls · #**185** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 11:39 AM**

More photos by francely in the Canada section:

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that construction near the War Museum, seen from Alexandra bridge

reflection in the War Museum

Davis137 · #**186** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 1:09 PM**

That 2nd tower is going up really fast now...will only be a matter of weeks when they top it off I think.

Great Pano's of the Northern Ottawa Skyline and Tunneys!

K-133 · #**187** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 12:59 AM**

When the first tower stood there all alone, the project looked dismal. Now that the second tower is rising, you can really feel it coming together. Once the whole project is completed, I think this is really going to feel like it fits in.

Though the next ten years may be somewhat difficult to endure.

Harls, that picture from the Hull side really capture it!

jcollins · #**188** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 1:24 AM**

What else is planned for the surrounding areas other than these two towers?

K-133 · #**189** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 1:41 AM**

There are three more 'phases' planned.

Two shorter buildings with, I believe townhomes, condos and some retail space. Basically, if you're at the corner of Fleet and Lett looking towards Chinatown, that will all be filled in with the above. If standing in the same place you turn 180 degrees to look at Hull, that area is planned to have a Firefighters monument. It is currently still owned by the NCC.

waterloowarrior · #**190** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 2:29 AM**

Here`s the model from Claridge`s bid

The next Claridge phase is currently trying to get rezoning
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7TBVSZ. I think it`s the building above Claridge's Phase 1 and Two in the model image (aerial view)

I believe the next part of the overall LeBreton Flats development (i.e. other than Claridge's section) will be the NCC selling blocks U and T, which are on the south side of the ORP, just west of Claridge's Phase 1 & 2 (on the aerial view they are the blank area to the right of the existing development).

K-133 · #**191** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 2:57 AM**

waterloowarrior

My understanding is that those sections will be used to erect a monument.

waterloowarrior · #**192** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 3:10 AM**

Here's a couple more images for context

(source: southfacing flickr)

Here's where the Firefighters monument will be according to http://www.cfff.ca/en/memorial/

K-133 · #**193** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 3:25 AM**

That makes much more sense then. Thanks waterloowarrior.

Any idea what's happening in that section between Booth and the transit path? There's been crews working those grounds all winter.

ServiceGuy · #**194** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 10:58 AM**

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Any idea what's happening in that section between Booth and the transit path? There's been crews working those grounds all winter.

That's infrastructure work... water mains, gates, or something like that.

jcollins · #**195** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 12:13 PM**

Thanks for all the info everyone!

Looks like it's going to be quite the project. I like the mix of townhomes and condos.

Does Claridge have the contract to do the entire thing?

Ottawan · #**196** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 1:12 PM**

Claridge has the contract for the area that they have built models for (the orange buildings in the renderings), they would have to compete to build anything west of Booth and/or south of the aquaduct.

I've personally always been most interested in those buildings along Booth - I can't wait for Claridge to get there.

My big disappointment with the project isn't the look (I always have maintained that while one lonely building looks bad, the area as a whole would look quite good), but the pace. In 2004, when Claridge won the bid, the whole development was supposed to be complete by 2015. I find it unlikely that even Claridge's portion will be complete by then.

K-133 · #**197** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 2:32 PM**

Ottawan - I share your frustration. Where you and I see the whole, many people see only a lonely building, surrounded by dirt. Though, I look at this as opportunity - without demand prices remain stagnant. Once this project really begins to come together, demand will rise more sharply - and so will the pace.

Unfortunately, until that demand comes, Claridge will not be motivated to move any faster. I give this project at least another 10 years.

Aylmer · #**198** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 6:00 PM**

Well at least it's moving faster than the first tower... Claridge might be able to finish for 2013 at the earliest.

K-133 · #**199** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 6:11 PM**

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Well at least it's moving faster than the first tower... Claridge might be able to finish for 2013 at the earliest.

You're right, it is possible. They've sold 80% of tower 2 as well.

It also appears that the pace of the second tower is much faster now than tower 1.

ajldub · #**200** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 7:23 PM**

We need to figure out a way to get a major sports hub that is home to the sens, 67s, CFL and soccer on the rest of this land. Preferably in two buildings. I can't think of anything that would go further in pulling this city together.