The Met [180 Metcalfe St] | 84.5m | 28f | U/C

[AuxTown]

What a view that would be! Parliament, River, Gatineau Hills, Chateau Laurier, CBD....
View from the 75th floor

[YOWflier]

Don't think the lady's sipping scotch. Looks like a cappuccino or a chai latte something or other.

[FutureWickedCity]

I doubt they will get back to me, but I have e-mailed the developers, Jadco Group of Laval, requesting clarification.

[UrbOttawa]

Crane is up on this one - can't wait to see it rise to 60+ stories

[rocketphish]

Updated proposal (March 2021)

In response to staff concerns with the proposed height, as well as concerns from members of the public, the design has been revised to a 27-storey building with an enclosed amenity area at the mechanical penthouse level. The current proposed design makes extremely minimal changes to the building envelope, relative to the existing Site Plan approved building.

The proposed enclosure of a rooftop amenity area will have minimal impacts on the volume of the building, as shown in Figure 1, which compares the Site Plan Approved north elevation with the proposed north elevation.

The enclosed mechanical/amenity level will include the elevator core/stairwells, an electrical room, a mechanical room, a pool with two washroom/changerooms and a small gym, as well as access to two outdoor terraces. The proposed 5.5 metre height of this projection accommodates the proposed pool, as well as a more compact footprint for the mechanical and electrical rooms.

In addition to the above-noted changes, minor changes to unit counts and parking counts have been made through the detailed design. The changes to the number of parking spaces and bicycle parking spaces are due to a revised foundation design.

Building Height: Approved - 84.5 metres, Revised - 84.5m + 5.5m mechanical/amenity penthouse
Dwelling Units: Approved - 303 units, Revised - 307 units
Vehicle Parking: Approved - 188 spaces (0.62/unit), Revised - 178 spaces (0.58/unit)
Bicycle Parking: Approved - 201 spaces (0.66/unit), Revised - 200 spaces (0.65/unit)
Amenity Area: Approved - Total: 1,881.7m2 (6.2m2/unit) Communal: 941.7m2 (3.1m2/unit), Revised - Total: 2,209.7m2 (7.2m2/unit) Communal: 1,269.7m2 (4.1m2/unit)

[Harley613]

Today's progress:
Photo_6553858_DJI_258_jpg_4201040_0_202154153242_photo_original by harley613, on Flickr

[OTSkyline]

With this one, the two TriBeCa towers and the other 2 new retails across the street, that's a lot of development and new residents for this area!

[Harley613]

Originally Posted by OTSkyline

With this one, the two TriBeCa towers and the other 2 new retails across the street, that's a lot of development and new residents for this area!

It should be good for Elgin Street. The double whammy of the revamp followed by Covid has just been too much for the bar and restaurant scene. Whoever survives should make bank after the pandemic with all these new patrons living close by.

[JHikka]

Originally Posted by Harley613

It should be good for Elgin Street. The double whammy of the revamp followed by Covid has just been too much for the bar and restaurant scene. Whoever survives should make bank after the pandemic with all these new patrons living close by.

And for the CBD as a whole. Only two blocks south of an effectively dead area after 5pm in normal times. Bank and Elgin should benefit, of course, but so should Sparks & environs by extension.

[Urbanarchit]

It'd be nice if the empty lot at Metcalfe/ Gloucester could be redeveloped with a nice apartment building with some retail frontage to continue a bit of the commercial strip this section of Metcalfe has.

Redeveloping Metcalfe/ Slater with a residential building might also help Sparks Street by bring more people into the CBD.

I'm skeptical about the quality of the street level these new buildings by Claridge will bring to the area. I'd like to see the other surface lots redeveloped in a way that is friendly for the street, and then eventually see the Place Bell podium/ parking garage torn down and replaced with a nice residential tower.

[rocketphish]

That is quite the structure they have holding up the old facade!



https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.4190011,-...CbZtcvdXP8fzMWllSvOQA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by Urbanarchit

It'd be nice if the empty lot at Metcalfe/ Gloucester could be redeveloped with a nice apartment building with some retail frontage to continue a bit of the commercial strip this section of Metcalfe has.

Redeveloping Metcalfe/ Slater with a residential building might also help Sparks Street by bring more people into the CBD.

I'm skeptical about the quality of the street level these new buildings by Claridge will bring to the area. I'd like to see the other surface lots redeveloped in a way that is friendly for the street, and then eventually see the Place Bell podium/ parking garage torn down and replaced with a nice residential tower.

Looking forward to the redevelopment of the first two you mentioned.

The Place Bell parking garage though, I can't see it being redeveloped. Unless the post-Covid world results in a major hit on parking demand, it's here to stay. I honestly think it's one of the better looking parking garages, with retail on the ground floor, so I'm fine with its continued presence.

[passwordisnt123]

Originally Posted by Urbanarchit

It'd be nice if the empty lot at Metcalfe/ Gloucester could be redeveloped with a nice apartment building with some retail frontage to continue a bit of the commercial strip this section of Metcalfe has.

Redeveloping Metcalfe/ Slater with a residential building might also help Sparks Street by bring more people into the CBD.

I'm skeptical about the quality of the street level these new buildings by Claridge will bring to the area. I'd like to see the other surface lots redeveloped in a way that is friendly for the street, and then eventually see the Place Bell podium/ parking garage torn down and replaced with a nice residential tower.

The surface parking lot at Metcalfe and Slater has always stood out to me as something that just shouldn't be. I'd particularly like to see that be developed.

Adding more people to this area is an important and good thing but I would argue it's not enough in and of itself to revitalize sparks street. It's a necessary but not sufficient criterion, I would say. One of the things Jane Jacobs talks about is the need to give people a reason to turn one way at an intersection rather than another way. She uses a great example in Chapter 9 of Life and Death of Great American Cities:

Consider, for instance, the situation of a man living on a long street block, such as West Eighty-eighth Street in Manhattan, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. He goes west-ward along his 800-foot block to reach the stores on Columbus Avenue or take the bus, and he goes eastward to reach the park, take the subway or another bus. He may very well never enter the adjacent blocks on Eighty-seventh Street and Eighty-ninth Street for years. This brings grave trouble. We have already seen that isolated, discrete street neighborhoods are apt to be helpless socially. This man would have every justification for disbelieving that Eighty-seventh and Eighty-ninth streets or their people have anything to do with him.

We could build a Burj Khalifa's worth of housing at that site on Metcalfe and Sparks but unless we give those people a reason to turn north on Metcalfe when they leave their building, they'll all just turn and go south, east or west, leaving Sparks Street just as desolated as it is now.

[J.OT13]

Updated roofline approved by Planning Committee.

[rocketphish]

Council green-lights plan for 27-storey tower at Metcalfe Street Medical Arts Building site

By: OBJ staff
Published: Jun 24, 2021 5:24pm EDT

A long-delayed plan to construct a residential highrise at the site of an Art Deco-style heritage building on Metcalfe Street got the go-ahead from city council on Wednesday.

Jadco Group wants to demolish the interior and rear wall of the six-storey Medical Arts Building at 180 Metcalfe St., which has been designated a heritage structure, and incorporate the remaining facades into a new 27-storey tower with 307 residential units, 188 underground parking spaces and an enclosed rooftop amenity area.

Constructed in 1928, the L-shaped building with distinctive copper panels and geometric buff-coloured brick is considered a “neighbourhood landmark” due to its prominent location at the corner of Metcalfe and Nepean streets. The building’s interior does not have heritage protection.

Wednesday’s decision marks the culmination of a process that’s stretched on for more than six years.

The project originally went before council in the summer of 2015. At the time, the plan from developer Toth Equity featured 206 condo units and a 140-suite hotel in addition to retail space.

The councillor for the area, Catherine McKenney, said a hotel was inappropriate for the site and wanted the plan to include more three-bedroom apartments to house families living in the downtown core.

After the first vote lost on a tie, council approved the zoning and official plan amendments for the project in September 2015 but said a hotel could be built only if the developer contributed $200,000 towards parks and recreational facilities for the neighbourhood. That plan never came to fruition.

In 2018, a new proponent, Jadco Group, presented a fresh proposal calling for a six-storey podium that would include a retail component, topped by a 21-storey tower with 303 residential apartment units.

Six floors of underground parking would be accessed from Nepean Street and have space for 198 vehicles, with 173 spaces reserved for residents. Communal outdoor patios would be located on the roofs of the podium and the residential tower.

Last June, Jadco submitted a revised proposal for a 30-storey tower with 311 residential suites.

After receiving complaints about the height increase, the developer scaled back the plan.

https://www.obj.ca/article/real-estate/r...-27-storey-tower-metcalfe-street-medical

[rocketphish]

Jadco Group wants to demolish the interior and rear wall of the six-storey Medical Arts Building at 180 Metcalfe St.

I guess nobody from OBJ has been by this site in quite a while. Those walls have been gone for almost a year.

[HighwayStar]

Originally Posted by rocketphish

[B]Council green-lights plan for 27-storey tower at Metcalfe Street Medical Arts Building site

Last June, Jadco submitted a revised proposal for a 30-storey tower with 311 residential suites.

After receiving complaints about the height increase, the developer scaled back the plan.

https://www.obj.ca/article/real-estate/r...-27-storey-tower-metcalfe-street-medical

I get it with zoning, variances, etc…. But who *precisely* complains 27 stories is great…. But 30 stories is too high?

[J.OT13]

Very disappointing. 30 floors would have added a much needed variation, if ever so slight, to the south facing skyline. The loss of the Medical Arts Building for yet another case of facadism (and yes, OBJ seems to be years behind on this one) is also very tragic.

[Flemay]

Anybody knows if this project is at grade or above?

[SL123]

Originally Posted by Flemay

Anybody knows if this project is at grade or above?

It was at grade or pretty close to at grade last week