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The site plans have now been posted. https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applications/D07-12-24-0138/details?

I think the builder was able to parlay the fact he was building a tower at the end of the street to make scheduling crews more efficient. The smaller building made a great way to utilize trades when they only had a half day's work in either location.

The houses where the townhomes will go (separate project, separate developer IIRC) are razed, but the houses and temple for this project remain fenced off. Selfishly, my major thoughts on these two projects have to do with traffic since I need this street to escape my neighbourhood. Island Park...

I think those issues may explain why these are not condos. Many, many people are renting overlooking parking lots (Westgate, RCSS) and I've heard from those living over/next to the Farmboy on McCrae that the trucks doing delivery in the very early morning are intrusive. I agree that a bit of...

I've been wondering what the bright red building was at Zibi... Gotta say, I'm disappointed it won't stay red. It really pops when you come over the Kanata Hill and it has brightened my view from my east windows. Obviously it could never have stayed red. This is the NCR where the bureaucratic...

Great! Now our moderators can learn how to merge threads!!!!

I think this promoting of the solar panels was posted in the other forum a while ago but it showed up on r/ottawa yesterday: https://www.mitrex.com/projects/1451-wellington-st

We were on foot at Richmond and McCrae today and it looks all alone from that angle. It is hard to imagine how that wall of highrises will look when finished along there. Some of the glacial pace is due to the construction elevator being out of service this week. (Source: was chatting with...

Comment: the site plan above makes it look like the land owned by Homestead stretches around the parking lot of the Jules Leger Centre (existing 1 storey building which is actually two storeys in places) and that the parking lot is part of the project. It is not, and Clearview is fenced off so...

Appealed to the Ontario Land Tribunal. The 3 day hearing will be July 3 - 5. The lawyer for Homestead was pushing the OLT to push the appellant for an earlier date in light of the housing crisis in Ottawa. The OLT guidelines had suggested it would be a May/June time frame and that was what the...

We face this every time we walk up to Richmond and it is really looking good. And it doesn't look Char-white at all. The wind tunnel effect was really noticeable last week with the bitter cold and the wind from the south-east, making for ice cream headaches while walking up to Richmond. I know...