Mosaiq Ottawa | 818 Gladstone Ave | 30m | 9s | Ottawa Community Housing | Hobin

[J.OT13]

This thing is huge!

 

[urbottawa]

 

[hoggytime]

Today:

 

[J.OT13]

Didn't realize two were going up at once.

 

[CloudsintheSky]

And they have started the block of townhomes already too!

 

[J.OT13]

OCH working fast nowadays.

 

[Marcus CLS]

Street level shots.

 

[Bluejay]

Good news is that OCH will be announcing further projects very soon which will be more than welcomed!

 

[Ottman]

 

[urbottawa]

 

[hoggytime]

So much new housing, and the area is still a grocery store desert. It will be even more difficult for the average residents in community housing who don't have cars.

 

[CapitalSeven]

So much new housing, and the area is still a grocery store desert. It will be even more difficult for the average residents in community housing who don't have cars.

There used to be a grocery store a four-minute walk away on Booth, until 2006 it seems. Eric Darwin wrote an article about it, and it's not hard to find a trail of discussion about the lack of groceries in the general area going back nearly 20 years. Really, the lot this is being built on would have been an ideal place for a food store, given all the housing being built between Bronson and the Trillium Line. It's great we keep building housing for folks but what are they supposed to eat?

 

[Ottawacurious]

There's a few big buildings going in on that block. Any of them have room for a food basics?

 

[J.OT13]

You'd think OCH, of all the developers, would want to fill the need for basic services in the area.

 

[lakeofthewood]

Wasn't a grocery store proposed as part of the Booth Street CLC lands? There's been so many iterations of that project I forget when or where it might have been