Power Centre Development

[waterloowarrior]

Here's a list of some of the current planned/UC/recently completed power centres in Ottawa. If you can think of anymore, please add them to the list.



Ottawa Central

Ottawa Train Yards - Industrial & Trainyards - Now Open

"Power Centre" shopping is coming to the centre of the City of Ottawa with the planned development of 520,000 square feet of retail stores and resturants. The retail site comprises 50 acres and the preliminary site plan is shown below.



Ottawa South

KENNEVALE CENTRE, Ottawa (Barrhaven), ON - Spring 09

LOCATION
Southeast Corner of Strandherd Drive & Kennevale Drive

1. TENANTS
2. Farm Boy
3. TD Canada Trust
4. Drug Store

RIVER & MITCH OWENS, Ottawa (Manotick), ON - Spring 09

LOCATION
Northwest Corner of River Road & Mitch Owens Road

1. TENANTS
2. Food Store (proposed)
3. Home Improvement (proposed)
4. TD Canada Trust
5. Tim Hortons

Ottawa West

MARCH & OLD CARP, Ottawa (Kanata), ON - Spring 09

LOCATION
Southeast Corner of March Road & Old Carp Road

1. TENANTS
2. Sobeys
3. TD Canada Trust

HAZELDEAN & HUNTMAR, Ottawa (Kanata), ON - Spring 09

LOCATION
Northeast Corner of Hazeldean Road & Huntmar Drive



KANATA ANNEX, Ottawa (Kanata), ON - Spring 08 (some buildings have already finished)

LOCATION
Frank Nighbor Place at Hwy. 417 & Terry Fox Road

1. TENANTS
2. Costco
3. Home Depot
4. Anchor
5. Vacant 28,000 s.f.
6. Vacant 10,000 s.f.
7. Vacant 30,000 s.f.
8. - 7. Vacant

Ottawa East

INNES & BELCOURT, Ottawa (Orleans), ON - some of this has already opened

LOCATION
Southwest Corner of Innes Road & Belcourt Boulevard

1. TENANTS
2. Lowe's
3. Warehouse Club (proposed)
4. CIBc

Smartcentres Orleans - Innes and Mer Bleu - 867,000 sq ft - Under development






Gatineau
ST-RAYMOND & OUTAOUAIS (PHASE III), Gatineau (Hull), PQ - Phase III Spring 09

LOCATION
Northwest Corner of Boul. St-Raymond & Boul. de l'Outaouais

1. TENANTS
2. Wal-Mart
3. Rona
4. Famous Players
5. Loblaws
6. Super C
7. Scotiabank
8. Vacant 10,000 s.f.
9. Winners
10. TD Canada Trust
11. Bureau en Gros
12. Moores
13. Pantorama/Levi"s/Sport's Experts/Dollar ou Deux/BouClair
14. SAQ
15. Payless Shoe Source.The Source.L'Équipeur
16. Laurentian Bank.Additon-Elle.Thyme Maternity/Clement/Reitmans/Aldo
    Smart Set/La Senza/Danier

Exurban

SmartCentres Rockland -






Carleton Place Colonnade - 7 & McNeely






Kemptville Colonnade

Kemptville ON
45 Acres Available September, 2008

This site is located at the intersection of Highway 416 and Highway 43. 45 acres of the site is available for development, 43 acres of the site is being developed into the new retail centre "Kemptville Colonnade," now leasing for Fall 2008.

The community of Kemptville is located approximately 30 minutes south of Ottawa. It is the largest community along Highway 416 between Ottawa and Highway 401.

[harls]

Here's another one - Smartcentres Gatineau

405,000 sq ft - 44 acres

SuperFabulousWalmart and the Brick are the major tenants

http://www.smartcentres.com/site_sum...tineau_ss1.pdf

http://www.smartcentres.com/site_sum...tineau_ss2.pdf

Demographics

http://www.smartcentres.com/site_sum...ineau_demo.pdf

(I don't know where they get those numbers from.. it says 12 million people for Quebec??)

[Kitchissippi]

Isn't SmartCentres also doing Baseline at Clyde? Funny you go to their website and click on Nepean and it takes you to Napanee! That's like confusing Alanis Morrisette with Avril Lavigne

[clynnog]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

Carleton Place Colonnade - 7 & McNeely

Quite the compilation of big box category killers there...I'm sure the parasitic retail will follow soon after. In Carleton Place, I have my doubts that a Starbucks will do well there, especially as there is an established Tim's across the road. In Carleton Place, I fear for existing retail with a huge Wal Mart opening.

How far along in the various municipal approval processes are many of these big box developments.

Harls...I believe that you are right regarding the inflated QC population #'s....market analysts have a way with accentuating the positive and always inferring that the market will keep on growing etc. and that there will be no population/spending habit contraction in the marketplace.

[clynnog]

Originally Posted by Kitchissippi

Isn't SmartCentres also doing Baseline at Clyde? Funny you go to their website and click on Nepean and it takes you to Napanee! That's like confusing Alanis Morrisette with Avril Lavigne

yes, they are. They bought the old Laurentian HS site, but if Councillor Chiarelli has his way they won't even be allowed to file a rezoning or site plan application.

[waterloowarrior]

Originally Posted by clynnog

How far along in the various municipal approval processes are many of these big box developments.

The Kanata ones are hard to keep track of, there are so many applications and a lot of OMB hearings too. The Fernbank CDP has a list of some applications' (not just retail) status as of Jan 07 (pp 10-15)
http://www.fernbankcdp.com/dmdocumen...s%20Report.pdf


Colonnade in Kemptville is approved but the municipality, there was a pre-hearing meeting for the OMB, not sure what happened after that

Kennevale Centre in Barrhaven went to the OMB (to amend to OP I think) but council rejected rezoning it in September ... here's the planning committee minutes
http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa.../minutes16.htm

[clynnog]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

Kennevale Centre in Barrhaven went to the OMB (to amend to OP I think) but council rejected rezoning it in September ... here's the planning committee minutes
http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa.../minutes16.htm

I see another OMB hearing on that one. City Council in Ottawa tend to want to continue a fight when they don't agree with an OMB decision when subsequent applications come forward on a site that City Council lost on in the past.

[harls]

The Smartcentre in Gatineau is U/C and slated to open early next year. Last time I went past there the Wal-Mart building was up and the parking lot lights were being installed, and that was weeks ago.

[harls]

Originally Posted by clynnog

Harls...I believe that you are right regarding the inflated QC population #'s....market analysts have a way with accentuating the positive and always inferring that the market will keep on growing etc. and that there will be no population/spending habit contraction in the marketplace.

Maybe they are adding the population of Eastern Ont to their rather optimistic figures?

[osirisboy]

cool thread, too bad these are all such disgusting projects. it seems ottawa gets more suburban and spread out every year.
the train yards could have been a place to build a whole new community on a grid system. what a waste. and innes road is one of the ugliest streets ive ever seen. what ever happened to the policies from smart growth 2020 the city came up with back in 2000?

[Jamaican-Phoenix]

Man, sooooo muuuuuuuuch spraaaawwwwllll.

Train Yards was a glorious chance to get some serious smart growth and a new residential community in there, but God forbid that the area goes on without a bix box development... :roll:

[Acajack]

In order to arrive at a Quebec market of 12 million people for any Gatineau power centre they’d have to include everyone in the entire province from Rouyn-Noranda to Sept-Îles and beyond (some 1500 km or more across), and the population of Eastern Ontario from Ottawa all the way down to Oshawa approximately.

This Web site has been completely out of sync for some time, as evidenced by the fact that they show a hypothetical Brick store going in there when it’s highly unlikely since this chain just opened a brand-new store about 1 km away on Maloney (Galeries Gatineau) last year.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by harls

The Smartcentre in Gatineau is U/C and slated to open early next year. Last time I went past there the Wal-Mart building was up and the parking lot lights were being installed, and that was weeks ago.

Got a Dumbcentre about 1km from my home in London. Horrid place, I tells ye. Includes Canada's first mega-Walfart. Walfart is an especially appropriate label, on account of the next-door dairy farm, and consequent cow dung. Across the street is one of Canada's few Sam's-Clubs. Actually, despite the proximity, I do not shop there that often.


SmartCentres London North, 1280 Fanshawe Park Road W, London, Ontario
SmartCentres London North is a 580,000 square foot shopping centre that is situated at the intersection of Hyde Park Road and Fanshawe Park Road West in London, Ontario. A Wal-Mart Supercentre anchors the site. Other national tenants include Winners, Linen ‘N Things, Reitmans, Old Navy, Petcetera, and Golf Town.
http://www.smartcentres.com/site_sum...don(N)_ss2.pdf

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Across the street is one of Canada's few Sam's-Clubs. Actually, despite the proximity, I do not shop there that often.

Yeah, we have one in Cambridge too. It's usually pretty dead there and hasn't really stolen any business from the Costco in South Kitchener at all.

[Aylmer]

Ah, suburban Big-Boxes...
Eating up the countryside one square kilometer at a time!

[waterloowarrior]

Originally Posted by clynnog

I see another OMB hearing on that one. City Council in Ottawa tend to want to continue a fight when they don't agree with an OMB decision when subsequent applications come forward on a site that City Council lost on in the past.

yep there are a bunch of cases for these lands that have been added to the OMB's site (I think recently)

train yards phasing plan

[clynnog]

[QUOTE=waterloowarrior;3277726]yep there are a bunch of cases for these lands that have been added to the OMB's site (I think recently)

/QUOTE]

Do you have the addresses for the OMB referrals?....wasn't the train lands development planned to be innovative etc, and not just generic big box development with the requisite parasitic retail?

[waterloowarrior]

Do you have the addresses for the OMB referrals?

here's the e-status pages
http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ea-cgi/dtch...70875&lang=eng
http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ea-cgi/dtch...70875&lang=eng
http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ea-cgi/dtch...70875&lang=eng
(although they may be the old cases and the OMB just never updated the site... for some reason the "Ottawa" page has been randomly displaying old cases sometimes)

....wasn't the train lands development planned to be innovative etc, and not just generic big box development with the requisite parasitic retail?

from a city report

The Trainlands Concept

As part of the Official Plan Amendment, City Council approved policies to guide the development of the entire site. A goal of these policies was to realize an overall development that had a significant focus on public transit and other non-vehicular means of transportation and that would exhibit a high quality of urban design, for both buildings and outdoor public areas. This high quality design would help tie the entire site together in aesthetic appeal and function

I forget what happened in the end, but I remember the City and the developer / Wal-Mart had a lot of issues at the time with the originally proposed site plan (in the linked report they recommend refusal)

[clynnog]

[QUOTE=waterloowarrior;3278735]here's the e-status pages
http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ea-cgi/dtch...70875&lang=eng
http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ea-cgi/dtch...70875&lang=eng
http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ea-cgi/dtch...70875&lang=eng
(although they may be the old cases and the OMB just never updated the site... for some reason the "Ottawa" page has been randomly displaying old cases sometimes) [QUOTE]

Thanks for the links, but I don't think that those links relate to the Train lands area. Kennevale Drive is on the west edge of Barrhaven.

[waterloowarrior]

[quote=clynnog;3278764][quote=waterloowarrior;3278735]here's the e-status pages
http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ea-cgi/dtch...70875&lang=eng
http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ea-cgi/dtch...70875&lang=eng
http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ea-cgi/dtch...70875&lang=eng
(although they may be the old cases and the OMB just never updated the site... for some reason the "Ottawa" page has been randomly displaying old cases sometimes)

Thanks for the links, but I don't think that those links relate to the Train lands area. Kennevale Drive is on the west edge of Barrhaven.

when I said "yep there are a bunch of cases for these lands that have been added to the OMB's site (I think recently)" I was referring to your post about Kennevale's potential OMB hearing. The Train yards phasing plan was a separate item. sorry for the confusion.