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Originally Posted by OTownandDown
I can't help but put all your above comments in 'air quotes' when you talk about 'heritage district' and 'heritage buildings' when I look at the satellite view I see lots of parking lots. I'm sure there's some nice houses down there, but when I dropped my pin on the adjacent 'residential' street corner, a bland 1990's replica of heritage was on one side, bordered by a square stucco tear-down, and then more parking lots.
I know people hate on Hull, me being one of them, the no-mans land needs to be changed somehow. Why not add density to resurrect the rest of the neighbourhood?
I'm also all for heritage districts. There's a beautiful one West of Laval. To me there's maybe two (or one and a half) blocks of 'homes' between Maisonneuve and Laurier, which happens to be the prime-est, closest real estate to Ottawa and the River. Large parking lots and warehouses aren't going to last much longer.
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Not sure which beautiful heritage district west of Laval you're talking about.
Most of that area is rather unremarkable, except for a few nice houses on Leduc, like this one:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4312...7i13312!8i6656
But they're very rare.
By far the nicest (the only?) grouping of noble heritage buildings in Vieux-Hull is the rectangle bounded by Papineau-Laurier-Allumetières-Maisonneuve, near the Museum of History and the Collège St-Joseph. This was ground zero for Brigil's Place des Peuples project, but is not directly affected by the plans on the Four Points by Sheraton site (even if it's close).