General Update/Rumour thread [Urban Ottawa] - Page 280

TransitZilla · #**5581** Posted **Dec 7, 2018, 6:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Norman Bates

I think you mean 77 Metcalfe. Seems more like 20 years ago.

I was talking about the Urbandale building at Metcalfe and Slater (with the Tim Horton's on the ground floor) . I recall it being quite extensively renovated in the early 2000s.

J.OT13 · #**5582** Posted **Dec 7, 2018, 7:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by MattRichling

Where is the thread for Monocle? (or is there one?) Is it just lumped in with Q-West? thnks

Yup, we've kept it with Q-West.

https://forum.skyscraperpage.com/sho...178158&page=28

kwoldtimer · #**5583** Posted **Dec 13, 2018, 4:38 AM**

I see that excavation is now underway for the small project at Beechwood and Champlain, across from the St Charles project. I think a render was posted quite some time ago but I couldn't find it.

There's also another project being proposed about a block east on Beechwood, although I don't know the details. The site is currently occupied by a single house.

kevinbottawa · #**5584** Posted **Dec 13, 2018, 4:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

I see that excavation is now underway for the small project at Beechwood and Champlain, across from the St Charles project. I think a render was posted quite some time ago but I couldn't find it.

It might be this one. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=210655&page=2

rocketphish · #**5585** Posted **Dec 13, 2018, 12:49 PM**

It could also be this much smaller project to construct a new medical clinic (Nuvo Eye Center) at 119-121 Beechwood.

https://ontarioconstructionnews.com/...retail-ottawa/

https://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans...appId=__A8P25E

kwoldtimer · #**5586** Posted **Dec 13, 2018, 1:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by kevinbottawa

It might be this one. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=210655&page=2

No, it's east of there - the second house east of the corner of Chapleau.

FutureWickedCity · #**5587** Posted **Dec 13, 2018, 3:37 PM**

On Radio-Canada this morning, I heard them saying that the owners of Le Petit Chicago in Hull are looking for a new venue because the current property is being considered for federal government offices. New tower???

Acajack · #**5588** Posted **Dec 13, 2018, 3:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by FutureWickedCity

On Radio-Canada this morning, I heard them saying that the owners of Le Petit Chicago in Hull are looking for a new venue because the current property is being considered for federal government offices. New tower???

That sucks for Le Petit Chicago. I actually go there semi-regularly. It's the kind of place the Promenade du Portage needs more of, not less. Hopefully Tristan will be able to find a new spot - bar permits are quite restricted in the Vieux-Hull, a holdover from the clean-up they did in the bad old days.

As for that location's future, I guess if it's to be federal offices it will be the whole block that will get the axe. At the west end there is a former bank with a historic façade that is vacant but used to be a pawn shop. Then going east there is a Subway and then Le Petit Chicago.

Jayday23 · #**5589** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 1:19 AM**

as per the Claridge website:

2 new developments coming soon:

The Royale condos - will be somewhere on Rideau. Sales start early 2019.
Moon - no info know at this time.

https://claridgehomes.com/coming-soon

J.OT13 · #**5590** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 1:31 AM**

Claridge has its development on the corner of Queen and Lyon. Sales centre is complete and application has been submitted to the City.

https://forum.skyscraperpage.com/sho...d.php?t=182878

c_speed3108 · #**5591** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 3:05 PM**

From CFRA's twitter:

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BREAKING: ClubLink, the owner of the Kanata Lakes golf course, confirms it partnering with Minto and Richcraft Homes to "pursue options for alternative use of the golf course lands." Consultation to begin in early 2019. #ottnews

Proof Sheet · #**5592** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 3:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by c_speed3108

From CFRA's twitter:

Oh that will be a fun one to keep the pitchfork brigade who live in the surrounding houses (especially those who paid a premium to back on to the golf course) at bay.

People still play golf !!!!!

Kitchissippi · #**5593** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 4:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jayday23

as per the Claridge website:

2 new developments coming soon:

The Royale condos - will be somewhere on Rideau. Sales start early 2019.
Moon - no info know at this time.

https://claridgehomes.com/coming-soon

Moon? Is this a lunar reference or a building shaped like buttocks?

MOON: A building with class

danishh · #**5594** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 4:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by FutureWickedCity

On Radio-Canada this morning, I heard them saying that the owners of Le Petit Chicago in Hull are looking for a new venue because the current property is being considered for federal government offices. New tower???

its a good location since it's walking distance from the chaudiere bus stops, but I think the howards pawn shop building is heritage protected, and the church certainly is, so footprint will be limited to the petit Chicago and subway buildings.

Acajack · #**5595** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 4:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by danishh

its a good location since it's walking distance from the chaudiere bus stops, but I think the howards pawn shop building is heritage protected, and the church certainly is, so footprint will be limited to the petit Chicago and subway buildings.

There is a way to get around that. The new building across the street (22 Eddy?, but is fronts onto Portage too) incorporated the old façade on the Bank Hotel and such on Eddy, and also features a reconstruction of an old building that used to front on Portage, known to locals as Le Bloc Scott.

danishh · #**5596** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 4:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jayday23

as per the Claridge website:

2 new developments coming soon:

The Royale condos - will be somewhere on Rideau. Sales start early 2019.
Moon - no info know at this time.

https://claridgehomes.com/coming-soon

I'm betting Moon is a condo building on Claridge's Half Moon Bay land in barrhaven.

This article details their neighborhood plan - https://www.toronto.com/news-story/7...-in-barrhaven/

danishh · #**5597** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 5:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

There is a way to get around that. The new building across the street (22 Eddy?, but is fronts onto Portage too) incorporated the old façade on the Bank Hotel and such on Eddy, and also features a reconstruction of an old building that used to front on Portage, known to locals as Le Bloc Scott.

they can, but it adds cost, especially to build above the heritage façade. 22 Eddy has a green roof over the promenade du portage façade.

I'm not expecting anything too big for this block, maybe ~6 story midrise.

Acajack · #**5598** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 6:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by danishh

they can, but it adds cost, especially to build above the heritage façade. 22 Eddy has a green roof over the promenade du portage façade.

I'm not expecting anything too big for this block, maybe ~6 story midrise.

I suppose the owner of the properties knows what he is getting into. The bank building is actually a federal heritage site:

40 Promenade du Portage
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_...ux_de_Gatineau

I agree if a federal office building is built there it will a smallish one.

AFAIK a number of the buildings they occupy in Ottawa have been renovated and are coming back online and others are in renovation now.

The era when the feds actually needed a couple of big new towers is likely over.

danishh · #**5599** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 10:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

I suppose the owner of the properties knows what he is getting into. The bank building is actually a federal heritage site:

40 Promenade du Portage
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_...ux_de_Gatineau

I agree if a federal office building is built there it will a smallish one.

AFAIK a number of the buildings they occupy in Ottawa have been renovated and are coming back online and others are in renovation now.

The era when the feds actually needed a couple of big new towers is likely over.

yeah, I'm at Portage III and they're starting complete renos of all three towers. They're mostly shuffling employees into workplace 2.5 layouts (open concept) at Chaudière or at Esplanade Laurier, and accommodating those groups who arnt compatible with the new layouts in other Phase III towers while their tower is being renovated. Increases in teleworking is also diminishing the need for square footage. In the old days for a department as big as PSPC, and a project as big of this, we would have seen a new HQ built somewhere, have all employees move there, and then reno PDP III.

J.OT13 · #**5600** Posted **Dec 19, 2018, 1:49 AM**

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Ottawa East Holiday Inn sold for $50M

Ottawa Business Journal
December 18, 2018

The Halifax-based owner of the Holiday Inn on Joseph Cyr Street has sold the hotel and adjacent properties for a total price tag of $50 million.

Holloway Lodging announced Tuesday it has sold the 261-room Holiday Inn across the way from the St. Laurent Shopping Centre and a stone’s throw from the forthcoming light-rail transit station. Also included in the sale to an unnamed buyer are a neighbouring property occupied by a Lone Star Grill and adjacent vacant land.

Holloway, which owns and operates some 30 hotels across its portfolio, acquired the property in a deal four years ago and subsequently renovated the site to open the Holiday Inn. The company expects to make a gain of $26.3 million on the sale.

In a departure from the hospitality sector, Holloway Lodging is expected to break ground this coming spring on a new five-tower residential development on the same Carling Avenue site as its existing Travelodge Hotel.

https://obj.ca/article/ottawa-east-holiday-inn-sold-50m