Ottawa has a massive NIMBY/BANANA contingent. 30-40 stories is finally normal enough that the pitchforks mostly stay sheathed, in the but it took decades. Getting a couple of 50+ story buildings out of the ground will reset the norm and we can finally build up the city properly without so much...
...and hopefully it gets built as a landmark design like the 65 and 56 story terra cotta and glass towers that Trinity proposed, not the chopped down Mega Charcwhites that CLV was showing in their renders. This site deserves design excellence and extraordinary height.
Some interesting tidbits in this article, including the names of the apartment components of the three new RIMAP hotels. Most impressively though, RIMAP has three new multires projects on deck for Ottawa once the three hotels are completed...
The site for the rental apartment portion is up now, and it's called 'Mrkt Lofts' https://www.mrktottawa.com/floorplan-navigator
Floors 15-24 are rental apartments.
I drove down Wellington yesterday and the entire Wellington and Metcalfe street exposures of the site are fenced off and gated. They are moving much faster on this than I expected!
I see that vision a little bit as well...but I'd like to see a 100m+ tall bookend on the East end of this long row of buildings. This lot would be perfect.
Morguard Corporation is proposing to develop a 28-storey, high-rise residential apartment building at 500 Coventry Road, the first in what is intended to be the long-term redevelopment of the larger parcel at 500 Coventry Road.
Phase 1 of the redevelopment of 500 Coventry Road includes a...