General Update/Rumour thread [Urban Ottawa] - Page 293

AuxTown · #**5841** Posted **Sep 24, 2019, 2:18 PM**

Very nice mural near my office on Gilmour near Bank. Would love to see more stuff like this in Ottawa.

It's too bad there are so many large surface lots in this area of Centretown, even on main streets like Somerset.

AuxTown · #**5842** Posted **Sep 24, 2019, 2:19 PM**

Very nice mural near my office on Gilmour near Bank. Would love to see more stuff like this in Ottawa.

It's too bad there are so many large surface lots in this area of Centretown, even on main streets like Somerset.

kwoldtimer · #**5843** Posted **Sep 24, 2019, 2:32 PM**

I'm told that the properties on Bronson between Albert and Slater recently sold. Anybody know who the buyer was and what might be planned for the site? Seems to me like an interesting site for a residential tower.

danishh · #**5844** Posted **Sep 24, 2019, 4:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

I'm told that the properties on Bronson between Albert and Slater recently sold. Anybody know who the buyer was and what might be planned for the site? Seems to me like an interesting site for a residential tower.

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Let me do this again.

The land assembly is advertised here: http://www.collierscanada.com/27642#.XYpPArxKiUk
Escarpment district plan calls for low rise on this site: https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/documents/files/documents/con055249.pdf

The properties are heritage graded but not listed, the whole section of houses has a heritage overlay.

I wouldnt expect highrise development on this site to be easy, as there will be a lot of pressure to retain the heritage buildings, the last of what remains of uppertown when the lumber barons lived there.

J.OT13 · #**5845** Posted **Sep 26, 2019, 3:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by danishh

edit:
Let me do this again.

The land assembly is advertised here: http://www.collierscanada.com/27642#.XYpPArxKiUk
Escarpment district plan calls for low rise on this site: https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/documents/files/documents/con055249.pdf

The properties are heritage graded but not listed, the whole section of houses has a heritage overlay.

I wouldnt expect highrise development on this site to be easy, as there will be a lot of pressure to retain the heritage buildings, the last of what remains of uppertown when the lumber barons lived there.

Terrified of this one. This entire block should be restored and preserved.

kwoldtimer · #**5846** Posted **Sep 26, 2019, 9:31 PM**

This reminds me - I'm told that the new owners of the old mansion at the corner of Bronson and Lisgar are planning to build a four storey addition to the back of the house (ie. facing north). I think it is currently divided up into three or four apartments.

rocketphish · #**5847** Posted **Sep 27, 2019, 10:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urbanarchit

22-storey mixed-use rental apartment building proposed at 1655 Carling avenue.

Source

As originally reported by SidetrackedSue...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=8696214&postcount=5856

Harley613 · #**5848** Posted **Sep 28, 2019, 1:11 AM**

Looks like another Lahey masterpiece.

Jokes aside if it's his it's not his worst. It certainly reminds me of the 22 storey East Market Lofts tower. This area is interesting right now with Canadian Tire closing, a recently abandoned milk plant, and an abandoned warehouse. This development and the renovation of Carling Volvo will be welcome signs of life.

Not a bad spot for some good density. Direct access to the Queensway and a quick ride down the 85 to an O-Train stop. It's close to the new mega hospital that's opening in a few years.

RideauRat · #**5849** Posted **Sep 28, 2019, 4:44 PM**

[QUOTE=Urbanarchit;8700539]22-storey mixed-use rental apartment building proposed at 1655 Carling avenue.

[URL="http://kitchissippiward.ca/content/1655-carling-ave-development-pre-

big win for carling Imo hope westgate and the travelogde prospect development get's rolling that stretch of the 417 will be good looking in the future

Urbanarchit · #**5850** Posted **Sep 28, 2019, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by RideauRat

big win for carling Imo hope westgate and the travelogde prospect development get's rolling that stretch of the 417 will be good looking in the future

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Originally Posted by Harley613

Looks like another Lahey masterpiece.

Not a bad spot for some good density. Direct access to the Queensway and a quick ride down the 85 to an O-Train stop. It's close to the new mega hospital that's opening in a few years.

The 85 is anything but a quick and reliable ride down Carling. With the planner development along Carling I really hope the City builds BRT or LRT or something quicker and reliable along Carling because this sort of high-density development is going to create a lot of traffic problems as most people living there are going to need a care to get around. The buses on Carling (especially the 85) are not something I rely on anymore to get around,

Harley613 · #**5851** Posted **Sep 28, 2019, 5:16 PM**

[QUOTE=Urbanarchit;8701082]

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Originally Posted by RideauRat

The 85 is anything but a quick and reliable ride down Carling. With the planner development along Carling I really hope the City builds BRT or LRT or something quicker and reliable along Carling because this sort of high-density development is going to create a lot of traffic problems as most people living there are going to need a care to get around. The buses on Carling (especially the 85) are not something I rely on anymore to get around,

The last time I rode the 85 down Carling was in the 90's and it used to be a viable alternative to get downtown if the transit way was busy back then. I guess things have changed in 20 years haha.

CityTech · #**5852** Posted **Sep 28, 2019, 9:34 PM**

The city is planning on putting bus lanes on Carling. Not quite to the level of the Baseline BRT, though. IIRC, they're going in soon... as in, they'll be up by the time Phase 2 opens.

TransitZilla · #**5853** Posted **Sep 29, 2019, 2:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by CityTech

The city is planning on putting bus lanes on Carling. Not quite to the level of the Baseline BRT, though. IIRC, they're going in soon... as in, they'll be up by the time Phase 2 opens.

https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public-engagement/projects/carling-avenue-transit-priority-measures

Implementation is supposed to be next year...

I e-mailed them this summer suggesting that the EB stop at Merivale needs to be moved to the far side of the intersection. Whenever I am on a bus down Carling, that intersection takes forever to get through.

J.OT13 · #**5854** Posted **Sep 29, 2019, 1:29 PM**

I'm puzzled as to why the 85 is so unreliable. Carling Avenue is 6 to 8 lanes wide and has very little traffic outside of rush-hour, yet when I tried to take the 85 from the Civic to Carling Station and vis-versa, often one or two don't show up or they bunch up 30-45 minutes late. Bank is worse, Rideau-Montréal is significantly worse. Suburban routes (starting or ending outside the Greenbelt) are the only ones that seem to be respectively reliable.

rocketphish · #**5855** Posted **Oct 9, 2019, 1:17 AM**

Federal workers sent home due to bedbug infestation
100s of government employees sent home due to persistent bedbug issue

Matthew Kupfer · CBC News
Posted: Oct 08, 2019 7:49 PM ET | Last Updated: an hour ago

The federal government is treating a Gatineau, Que., office building for a persistent bedbug issue, which is forcing hundreds of employees to work from home or by alternative arrangements.

Public Service and Procurement Canada (PSPC) said previous attempts to treat the issue at 70 Crémazie Street have been unsuccessful.

PSPC is treating the entire building "as well as PSPC employees' homes, as necessary." The department says employees have been sent home until the situation is resolved.

Eddy Bourque, national president of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union (CEIU), says workers were notified Tuesday morning to not come to the building. He said between 500 to 600 CEIU members work at 70 Crémazie.

On Tuesday afternoon, Bourque said he was checking with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) about some employees that still had to work on the building's sixth floor.

In a statement Tuesday evening, IRCC said all of its employees have been instructed to find alternative arrangements and that such arrangements "are available to all IRCC employees engaged in all business lines and types of work."

He said he wants the department to also commit to support for employees should they have brought bedbugs home. He said the bugs have been detected in the building going back to 2018.

"I would like, once for all, that they would fix the problem for the employees' health and for anybody else's health that the employees are in contact with at home," he said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/bedbugs-cremazie-gatineau-1.5314095

Uhuniau · #**5856** Posted **Oct 9, 2019, 4:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by J.OT13

I'm puzzled as to why the 85 is so unreliable. Carling Avenue is 6 to 8 lanes wide and has very little traffic outside of rush-hour, yet when I tried to take the 85 from the Civic to Carling Station and vis-versa, often one or two don't show up or they bunch up 30-45 minutes late. Bank is worse, Rideau-Montréal is significantly worse. Suburban routes (starting or ending outside the Greenbelt) are the only ones that seem to be respectively reliable.

And the city is planning on doing exactly nothing to resolve any of those situations on Bank or Montreal-Rideau over any planning horizon. The time, convenience, social and economic mobility of those neighbourhoods is valued at zero. The urban transit plan does not yet exist.

J.OT13 · #**5857** Posted **Oct 10, 2019, 3:42 PM**

Could things I've noticed the last two weeks. Work is being done on the Lester B. Pearson building; new porte-cochère near the Sussex main entrance and a crane at the eastern part of that same façade.

Also, they had blue fencing around Roper House. I hope they aren't gutting the interior, assuming it is still mostly original.

kwoldtimer · #**5858** Posted **Oct 10, 2019, 5:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by J.OT13

Could things I've noticed the last two weeks. Work is being done on the Lester B. Pearson building; new porte-cochère near the Sussex main entrance and a crane at the eastern part of that same façade. ...

Has there been a render of the LBP Building project? I’m assuming it’s some sort of new secure entry building.

rocketphish · #**5859** Posted **Oct 11, 2019, 1:08 AM**

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Has there been a render of the LBP Building project? I’m assuming it’s some sort of new secure entry building.

A rendering? I don't know. But I just found the NCC's Lester B. Pearson Building Rehabilitation Plan document. On p.2 there is mention of other major projects are being completed on Lester B. Pearson, including the perimeter security project which was approved by the NCC in July of 2017.

The purpose of the security project was to improve security of the building for occupants and operations through the implementation of two new guard booths screening areas outside of the building and a security landscape/fence on site perimeter.

On p.13 there is a cross-section of the main Security Pavilion on Sussex Drive.

http://ncc-website-2.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/21.0-2019-P182-Lester-B-Pearson-building.pdf

Note that since we don't seem to have a project thread for the rehabilitation, I've just started one over here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=240586

kwoldtimer · #**5860** Posted **Oct 11, 2019, 11:37 AM**

That’s got it. Basically, just a glass box out front to be used for security screening. Iirc, you used to be able to just walk in the front doors and go to the bank, library, and cafeteria, until they installed security gates in the lobby. Not a design for these more dangerous times, unfortunately.