Azure Westboro [2070 Scott St] | 83.4m | 25f | U/C

[McKellarDweller]

Originally Posted by Jim613

Saw that too and was quite impressed that they're targeting average sized families here. Probably will be expensive as hell, but it's a start and hopefully other developers follow suit

In my dream scenario, it would be cheaper for developers to supply a 1000-1100 SF 3 bedroom apartment inside the greenbelt, with a good size storage unit in the building, and additional children-friendly amenity space, than it is to convert some farmland out in the sprawlburbs to a townhouse.

[CityTech]

^ That could be done with some rejigging of the fees.

[rocketphish]

New proposal for 25 stories and an updated design:









http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Im...02-19-0121.PDF

[danishh]

seems fine. build it. now.

[waterloowarrior]

recommended for approval
http://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/agdoc...&itemid=401430

[RogueNacho]

I believe this project was also approved by the planning committee yesterday.

[RogueNacho]

Approved by the Planning Committee.

One section of Scott Street near Westboro station has attracted one development application after another in recent years, and the planning committee approved yet another on Thursday for the parcel between Winona and Churchill avenues.

When the building proposed for 2070 Scott St. in Westboro went to the city's urban design panel for review, panellists questioned its height.

Leiper said he was glad to see the 25-storey building proposed for the site has been made less "wide and blunt" than originally planned, and welcomed the $900,000 the project will generate for affordable housing and parks in his ward.

Nevertheless, he was the only committee member to vote against the rezoning, urging the city to push for even better design.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...boro-1.5702076

[J.OT13]

OBJ article from last month. Glad to see a little bit of variation in height along Scott.

Developer seeks to add extra storeys to planned mixed-use tower on Scott Street

OBJ, July 17 2020

A developer that planned to build a 23-storey mixed-use tower on a vacant Westboro lot is now seeking to add two extra floors to the proposal after acquiring additional property near the original site.


Azure's original proposal called for a 23-storey highrise.

Azure Urban Developments filed plans with the city last year to construct an apartment tower on an empty lot on the south side of Scott Street between Winona Avenue and Churchill Avenue North. The original proposal called for 241 residential units, 5,554 square feet for commercial use on the ground floor and a four-level underground parking garage with 146 spaces.

At the time, Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper wrote in an update on his ward website that he was skeptical the lot would be able to accommodate “such a dense development,” pointing out that other recent projects in the area have been approved as “narrower towers.”

The developer has now refiled an updated site plan with the city after acquiring additional land at 328 Winona Ave., near the original site at 2070 Scott St. The Winona Avenue property is currently occupied by a single-detached dwelling.

The new proposal calls for a 25-storey building with the same amount of commercial space plus 264 residential units and 160 underground parking spots. The developer has applied for a zoning bylaw amendment to raise existing height limits from 20 metres on Scott Street and 11 metres at the Winona Avenue property to about 80 metres and reduce the setbacks required.

The area surrounding Westboro Transitway Station – which will be converted to light rail in the coming years – has been a hot spot for development as of late, with Colonnade Bridgeport building out its Westboro Connection down the road on McCrae Avenue as well as a neighbouring project on the site of the old Trailhead Paddle Shack.

Colonnade Bridgeport is also looking to partner with Morley Hoppner a bit farther west on the site of the Granite Curling Club on a proposal that would see the curling club shifted to a nearby lot and a mixed-use highrise built in its place. Another builder, Surface Developments, has filed plans to build a 30-storey mixed-use tower just a few metres east on Scott Street that would contain more than 350 apartment units.

https://obj.ca/index.php/article/dev...r-scott-street

[FutureWickedCity]

I appreciate Councillor Leiper's efforts to persuade the council and developers to uphold higher design standards.

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by FutureWickedCity

I appreciate Councillor Leiper's efforts to persuade the council and developers to uphold higher design standards.

I agree,but this proposal I find to be quite nice. Not the same level as 400 Albert, but the best of the Scott Street proposals, with 320 McRae coming as a close second thanks to its crown.

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...t=mcrae&page=2

Everything else is plain as can be.

[J.OT13]

Pre-Construction Open House:

• Video Link

[J.OT13]

And we have a name for the project: Azure Westboro

[J.OT13]

• Breaking ground late-April or early-May;
• 5 months excavation (including 4 months of blasting);
• Reaching ground level by early Spring 2022;
• Superstructure 12 to 14 months, should be complete by December 2023;
• Completion Summer 2024.

Scott and Churchill will not be impacted. Winona bear the brunt of the contraction impacts. They will achieve a minimum 82% waste diversion.

[Urbanarchit]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

And we have a name for the project: Azure Westboro

So there's an Azure at Richmond and Woodroffe and another Azure Westboro here? might be a bit confusing.

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by Urbanarchit

So there's an Azure at Richmond and Woodroffe and another Azure Westboro here? might be a bit confusing.

Same developer. This seems pretty common nowadays, with Mastercraft Starwood SoHo projects, Parkview's Lofty line of buildings or Brigil's Apogee (though they don't seem to use this name as much anymore).

[Har13]

Piling drill now on site.

[Har13]

https://flic.kr/p/2kXbjMA

[J.OT13]

City committee backs developer's bid for $350K brownfield grant for Westboro site

OBJ Staff, June 4, 2021

The city’s finance and economic development committee has endorsed a developer’s request for a brownfield grant of up to $352,000 to clean up the site of a proposed 25-storey mixed-use tower on a vacant Westboro lot.

Azure Urban Developments has filed plans with the city to construct an apartment tower on an empty lot on the south side of Scott Street between Winona Avenue and Churchill Avenue North.

The builder originally planned to build a 23-storey tower with 241 units before acquiring additional land at 328 Winona Ave. and revising the proposal to a 25-storey building with 264 apartments and 160 underground parking spaces.

According to a staff report, groundwater on the site has benzene levels that exceed provincial environmental standards. The developer expects the decontamination work to take six months to complete.

Full council will consider the request at its next meeting on June 9.

https://obj.ca/article/real-estate/r...grant-westboro

[Har13]

Soil stripping started today

[Marcus CLS]

No activity for awhile now. Appears to be on hold due to Scott Street detour work for stage2LRT. Round steel piles were placed around about 50% of the perimeter then all work stopped more then a month ago. The house that was added has not been demolished yet.