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Old Posted Jun 30, 2020, 8:23 PM
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So is Amazon putting in THREE in Ottawa or will North Gower no longer be an Amazon site?

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/amazon-bui...tawa-1.5005646
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Old Posted Sep 21, 2020, 11:34 PM
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Heard on 1310 news today this North Gower Facility is now slated to be a wayfair distribution centre. It was mentioned during a Rob Snow segment interviewing OBJ. Pretty certain they were both in agreement about hearing this
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Could we change the title? This is Wayfair, not Amazon.
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Could we change the title? This is Wayfair, not Amazon.
Do we know that yet, officially?
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Old Posted Nov 16, 2020, 11:17 PM
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Do we know that yet, officially?
Other than the radio conversation between CFRA's Rob Snow and OBJ's David Sali, I don't think we have any official sources. Removing Amazon is probably enough for now.
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Rideau Action Group continues fight against North Gower warehouse
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...warehouse.html
By Brandon Mayer, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterThe North Grenville Times
Fri., Dec. 10, 2021

The Rideau Action Group (RAG) has finally made their appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) in opposition of a planned “Mega Warehouse” in North Gower. Although the appeal, which has been planned for months, has finally been heard, closing remarks and rebuttals have not yet happened, meaning a verdict will likely not be reached until at least January of 2022.

Leigh-Andrea Brunet, Chairperson of RAG, spoke with the Times about some surprising developments that came out of the hearing. “After the hearing, we don’t know what exactly they plan on building,” Leigh-Andrea said.

The lawyer for the opposing side argued that the “proposal” for the new build was, in fact, a “conceptual plan,” with no clear answer as to what will be built. For RAG and many concerned citizens, this is troubling, because it means that zoning changes would occur before it is known what is actually going to be built.

“Originally, the developers came to the City of Ottawa to ask for an official plan amendment and zoning by-law amendment that would allow them to build 700,000 square feet.” Leigh-Andrea said. “That’s kind of where it started.”

However, RAG has since learned that the original intended “end user” of the warehouse space has backed out of the deal, raising serious questions about who will even use the developed space. “The lawyer for the applicant said it’s probably going to be a warehouse, it’s probably going to be a distribution centre, but would absolutely not confirm anything,” Leigh-Andrea said.

The land in question is currently divided into three zones: a light industrial zone, a highway commercial zone, and a recreational zone. RAG is fighting to keep this zoning in place, as the land is within the North Gower village limits. North Gower is growing, and RAG does not want to lose land that will help keep the village growing in the future. “We’re building houses like crazy here,” Leigh-Andrea said. “That property is going to be very valuable to us as we grow as a community.” One of the main goals of RAG is to make sure that North Gower keeps its small-town feel.

When asked if RAG is hopeful about the results of the appeal, Leigh-Andrea answered that they are “extremely hopeful.” She added, “Everything that’s guided around development for our village says this is absolutely ridiculous, and in no way does a development of this size fit into the proper land use.”

While RAG has many supporters, some other North Gower locals took to social media after the announcement of the appeal to voice their disapproval, saying that the village is an ideal place for a mega warehouse, given its proximity to the highway. Others commented on the benefit of local job creation, though Leigh-Andrea argues that there is no shortage of jobs available, and that the costs outweigh the benefits.


RAG has set up a GoFundMe page to support their cause. By December 3, it had raised $27,900 of a $60,000 goal. The page can be found at gofund.me/00a2f92d.
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Cities don't zone for specific developments. They zone for the type of use in general. A developer can build pretty much whatever they want on land as long as it fits within the rules for the zone. If RAG was surprised by this after appealing to the OLT, they really need to do their homework.
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Old Posted Feb 1, 2022, 4:10 AM
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This article is still calling it an Amazon project:

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Crestpoint buys Amazon's Barrhaven fulfilment centre from Broccolini for $494M

By: David Sali, OBJ
Published: Jan 25, 2022 3:51pm EST




Fresh off its deal late last year to buy a 50 per cent stake in one of Ottawa’s largest office complexes, Toronto-based Crestpoint Real Estate Investments has upped the ante by acquiring Amazon’s Barrhaven fulfilment centre for nearly half a billion dollars.

Crestpoint said this week it purchased a 90 per cent stake in the 2.8-million-square-foot warehouse at 222 Citigate Dr. from developer Broccolini for $494 million. The Toronto firm acquired the property on behalf of clients that include the Crestpoint Core Plus Real Estate Strategy, Vestcor Inc., and Kiwoom Securities and Hangang Asset Management, a South Korean investment consortium.

The five-storey building, which has a floorplate of more than 450,000 square feet, was completed last year at a cost of $200 million. Designed to handle more than 100,000 packages a day, it’s the largest facility of its kind in Canada and a key distribution hub for Amazon, which holds a 20-year lease on the property.

Crestpoint’s head of investments, Elliott Altberg, said the company has partnered with Broccolini on other projects for Amazon in the past – including the e-commerce behemoth’s one-million-square-foot warehouse in Ajax that opened last year – and jumped at the chance to add the Barrhaven property to its portfolio.

“For us, it kind of (ticks) all the boxes,” he said. “It’s just a really stable investment opportunity.”

The deal comes amid surging demand for industrial space in Ottawa as Amazon and other e-commerce companies look to capitalize on the region’s proximity to Toronto and Montreal to help them satisfy growing demand for same-day deliveries to consumers in Canada’s two largest cities.

In addition to occupying the Barrhaven facility, Amazon leases a one-million-square-foot warehouse on Boundary Road that opened in 2019 and was also built by Broccolini. The Montreal-based developer is also planning to construct a 700,000-square-foot distribution centre for Amazon in North Gower, a project that’s now under appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal.

With space at a premium, Ottawa’s industrial availability rate dropped below two per cent in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to CBRE, while net rents jumped to a record $12.15 per square foot, up from $11.94 at the end of September.

Altberg said the capital’s booming industrial sector is a sign of the times as online retailers scramble to find the most cost-efficient locations to store and ship products to an expanding customer base.

“We’re all kind of transitioning our lifestyles and e-commerce is a beneficiary of that,” he said. “Ottawa is close to a whole bunch of population (centres). There’s a lot of reasons why people want to be in Ottawa and a lot of large (institutional investors) are looking to grow (their footprints) in Ottawa.”

The acquisition is Crestpoint’s second $100-million-plus transaction in the capital in less than three months. In November, the company purchased a 50 per cent stake in the Place de Ville office complex for $175 million.

Like the Barrhaven distribution centre, Place de Ville has a blue-chip tenant locked up for years to come in the federal government, which occupies about 85 per cent of the 1.17-million-square-foot property.

“I think these are core buildings in core locations first and foremost, but they’re (supplemented) by cash flows and (tenants) that are stable and have been there for quite some time,” Altberg said of the Place de Ville and Amazon deals.

Besides three highrises and a four-storey podium, another key asset traded hands in the Place de Ville agreement – a surface parking lot on a prime piece of downtown real estate.

While Crestpoint’s growing Ottawa portfolio also includes a 50 per cent stake in a 26-storey office tower at 234 Laurier Ave. W. as well as three office buildings in Kanata, the firm has yet to venture into the capital’s multi-residential market. Altberg said that could change now that the company owns development-ready land in the core – a scarce commodity in Ottawa.

“That will provide us an opportunity over the medium term to go ahead and develop multi-family (units) should we choose that route,” he said.

“I think we have the best undeveloped parking lot in Ottawa at this point. One of the things that we want to do is get into income-producing multi-family (projects), so that’s an area that we will focus on in the coming years.”

https://www.obj.ca/article/real-esta...tre-broccolini
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Old Posted Feb 16, 2022, 9:00 PM
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Old Posted Aug 24, 2022, 2:21 PM
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The community group requested leave to appeal at Divisional Court and lost
https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onscdc/...2onsc4219.html

The chairperson of RAG is running for Scott Moffat's old seat
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Old Posted Jan 14, 2023, 7:35 PM
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[May 2022] 1966 Roger Stevens Drive in North Gower was purchased by Roger Stevens GP Inc. & Roger Stevens Coinvest GP Inc. (Broccolini Construction Inc.) from MCU Holdings Ltd. for $5,250,000 or $46,837 per acre. It is zoned Rural General Industrial, Rural Commercial & Parks and Open Space.

http://juteaujohnsoncomba.com/wp-con...-May-Sales.pdf
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