453-455 Coventry Rd | ?m | up to 20f | Proposed

[rocketphish]

A conceptual development proposal comprising three, mixed-use high-rise buildings and a mid-rise mixed use building is provided to demonstrate the development potential of the Subject Property at 453 and 455 Coventry Road.

The conceptual development proposal shows a twenty-storey building along the east side of the Subject Property, closest to St. Laurent Station, fronting on Coventry Road. A sixteen storey high rise tower is shown to the west, an eighteen storey high rise tower to the north and a six-storey building to the east. A combined total of 574 parking spaces and associated loading spaces are proposed at grade and within two levels of underground parking to service the mixed use development on the Subject Property. A full access driveway is proposed off Coventry Road.

A detailed site plan control application to facilitate development on the Subject Property will be provided as part of a subsequent application.


Development application:
https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applica...1-0144/details


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[JHikka]

This is exactly the kind of area that should be building this sort of development but i'm skeptical of these walking paths to LRT stations.

Firstly, nobody will be walking a kilometre, especially over the 417, to Tremblay.
Secondly, is there a crosswalk at the southern corner of Coventry where they expect being to cross to St. Laurent Centre? If the West doors of the mall were opened that trek could be cut down a bit instead of looping all the way around the parking.

On the whole it looks positive, though.

[SL123]

I appreciate that we need to start somewhere but...what a horrible place to live with the current surrounding

[rocketphish]

New imagery (May 2022) in response to UDRP comments:

[RideauRat]

I wonder why they drew Coventry as going behind the Assent building, is there plans to realign it somewhere?

[Harley613]

Originally Posted by RideauRat

I wonder why they drew Coventry as going behind the Assent building, is there plans to realign it somewhere?

There is, I can't remember the reasoning.

[rocketphish]

Originally Posted by RideauRat

I wonder why they drew Coventry as going behind the Assent building, is there plans to realign it somewhere?

Yes, it was part of the St. Laurent Shopping Centre expansion plan:

https://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum...4&postcount=12

[vtecyo]

Originally Posted by Harley613

There is, I can't remember the reasoning.

It was to do with a proposed expansion of St. Laurent shopping centre - it's referenced on page 4 here: http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Im...0Rationale.PDF

I don't feel like we're going to see an expansion any time soon - at least not for the reasons they refer to -

Previous applications for expansion of the existing 116,000 square metre Shopping Centre to the west which included the construction of a new, larger, two-storey Sears department store, additional retail unit space, and additional office space. As part of the proposal, a portion of the centre would have been demolished and rebuilt and would have brought the total leasable floor area to 127,994 square metres.

[J.OT13]

was the re-alignment purely for the St. Laurent expansion? If so, why is the re-alignment still in the plans considering the expansion will never happen?

[ponyboycurtis]

On the surface this seems like such a bizarre location for development. I was going through some older pages the other day and we have dozens and dozens of proposals that are seemingly in a better location than this one. If we are building units of housing just for sustainability there are so many locations that make more sense than this one.

That being said, it seems that a good chunk of completed threads on this page are often 10 years old. I don't get the snails pace.

This development and everything else in the surrounding area could bode well for our maligned baseball stadium. I went to a pair of Titans games a few weeks ago an had an absolute blast. Tickets are only 15 dollars and the quality of baseball was pretty good! Both games there was easily less than a thousand people in attendance. I caught the train to Tremblay station and used the overpass over the 417 for the first time (station and overpass) It was a pretty sweet feeling to be honest.

[J.OT13]

The only way to make baseball work might be to build a mini-Lansdowne with condos and restaurants. More needs to be done to let people know the stadium is accessible by transit.

I agree that this proposal is in a strange place. I'd like to see the City create an overall CDP for the Tremblay and St. Laurent area. I know they had something for both individually, but this should be one big district anchored by both stations (similar to LeBreton).

[ponyboycurtis]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

The only way to make baseball work might be to build a mini-Lansdowne with condos and restaurants. More needs to be done to let people know the stadium is accessible by transit.

I agree that this proposal is in a strange place. I'd like to see the City create an overall CDP for the Tremblay and St. Laurent area. I know they had something for both individually, but this should be one big district anchored by both stations (similar to LeBreton).

Perhaps when in 10-20 years and all those towers around Tremblay and across from the main Post Office get built and .. please please.. connect that neighborhood to Tremblay.. it will be a much better fabric and a travesty if not realized.

I was mostly thinking of along the lines of ... if this complex popped up overnight it would be weird.

I feel like I've said the word towers way to many times today but onwards we march.

[OTSkyline]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

The only way to make baseball work might be to build a mini-Lansdowne with condos and restaurants. More needs to be done to let people know the stadium is accessible by transit.

I agree that this proposal is in a strange place. I'd like to see the City create an overall CDP for the Tremblay and St. Laurent area. I know they had something for both individually, but this should be one big district anchored by both stations (similar to LeBreton).

I was literally thinking that while driving past the baseball stadium yesterday. Add a few rental towers on the side parking lot (between the stadium and the 417) a-la Lansdowne. It would add density, housing, lots of people in the immediate area who might be tempted to spend an afternoon there every week or two and it would be a very quick easy walk across the 417 in a covered walkway mind you, to the Tremblay LRT station. The area will also get better with other projects like this one on Coventry and the street (after the stadium) already has nice new sidewalks and bike lanes.

The only issue would be there isn't THAT much space to do a whole lot, with the lands being sandwiched between the Ottawa Convention Centre and the Canadian Tire. Not sure if they own the whole surface parking lot, if they did they could make it underground and have a lot more room to build - could also become more of a destination for the neighbourhood and of use for the people staying at the hotels next door (if there were restaurants and such).

[J.OT13]

Measuring the parking at Lynx Stadium vs Lansdowne, it's about comparable to the four blocks at the north-west corner. Kind of wish the City would not have sold the parking lots where Canadian Tire and Best Buy are now situated. In any case, those can be rezoned if that hasn't already been done. City should also put up the O-Train "O" pylon at the entrance to the Mx Keeping Bridge, along with a map to show people you can get to the train from there.

I'd like to think that if the City redeveloped the parking lot, everything east of the baseball stadium would quickly follow.

[ponyboycurtis]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

Measuring the parking at Lynx Stadium vs Lansdowne, it's about comparable to the four blocks at the north-west corner. Kind of wish the City would not have sold the parking lots where Canadian Tire and Best Buy are now situated. In any case, those can be rezoned if that hasn't already been done. City should also put up the O-Train "O" pylon at the entrance to the Mx Keeping Bridge, along with a map to show people you can get to the train from there.

I'd like to think that if the City redeveloped the parking lot, everything east of the baseball stadium would quickly follow.

Gotta start somewhere I suppose.

This proposal also has an even worse approach to the mall than the oddball 2x 30 floors in the traffic island. Much worse.