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Old Posted Jun 3, 2008, 11:18 PM
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big box info from the annual development report... lots of good info

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Power centres now account for four of Ottawa’s five largest retail nodes in terms of space.

Construction activity in 2007 was focused on Orléans. Work was completed on power centres by Trinity and SmartCentres on Innes Road. Between the 2005 and 2007 City-commissioned retail surveys, over 155,000 m2 (1.7 msf)
of new retail space has opened in Orléans. The Innes Road power node, with 133,000 m2 (1.43 msf) of space, is now the city’s largest, surpassing the Kanata power centre by almost 40,000 m2. [that's about the size of Bayshore and Place D'Orleans combined! ]

South Nepean was the second most active area of retail construction. The Greenbank-Strandherd intersection has become a full-fledged power centre whose drawing power has caused retailers to relocate there or close other Barrhaven locations. Examples include Loeb, Shoppers Drug Mart, a post office, a medical centre and a Home Hardware, all of which either closed or relocated to the new node. The Greenberg-Strandherd intersection now has almost 90,000 m2 (970,000 sq.ft.) of retail space, Ottawa’s fifth largest concentration.

Kanata and Stittsville are poised for a large wave of new retail projects totalling about 210,000 m2 (2.2 msf). The proposals are focused on four areas: both sides of Highway 417 around Scotiabank Place; north March Road near Morgan’s Grant; Eagleson Road south; and Hazeldean Road west of the Carp River.

In Stittsville, there are proposals for a 10,600-m2 Sobeys and a 5,800-m2 plaza that will include Giant Tiger, the LCBO and Royal Bank.

Between Stittsville and Kanata, on Hazeldean Road, three power centres are proposed by Bryton Capital/CMHC, North American and Trinity, totalling 73,000 m2.

There are almost 100,000 m2 of new space proposed for the area around the 417-Terry Fox interchange, including an 11,700-m2 Rona and a 16,500-m2 Loblaws. The latter will replace the grocer’s outlet at Kanata Centrum. For its part, Kanata Centrum has plans for a further 5,000 m2 of new space.

At the intersection of March and Klondike Roads, Minto has proposed a 6,500-m2 plaza that would be anchored by a grocery store. South of this intersection, DIR Investments is proposing a third plaza with a Good Life gym and other outlets and further north, Trinity proposes a 10,000-m2 plaza with another grocery store.

Inside the Greenbelt, a new power centre at the Ottawa Train Yards was opened in 2007. Anchored by Wal-Mart, the centre already has 36 stores in 45,000 m2 of space open to the public. A second phase is scheduled for occupancy in 2009 and will include Ottawa’s first outlet of the U.S. chain Bed, Bath and Beyond.

On Carling Avenue, work continued on Ottawa’s first urban Canadian Tire store, a three-level, 9,300-m2 outlet at the corner of Churchill Ave. The site was formerly a car dealership. The new store will replace older ones at Fairlawn Plaza and on Richmond Road. Even though the new store can be described as a “big-box”, it has urban street presence with two retail frontages and some indoor parking. It constitutes a positive step in transitioning Carling Avenue toward a more urban, pedestrian-friendly mainstreet.

There is a proposal for redevelopment at Fairlawn Plaza, which would add about 14,850 m2 of new space.

East of the Rideau River there are seven proposals that would add 76,000 m2 of new retail. Loblaws is proposing two new 14,850-m2 stores, one at the corner of Walkley Road and Conroy Road, the other at the corner of St. Joseph Blvd. and Trim Road.

Riverside South has two strip mall proposals that account for 11,150 m2 of new space along Limebank Road (one at the corner of Spratt Road, another at the corner of Earl Armstrong Road). The “Hunt Club Plaza” strip mall, with 13,000 m2, is proposed for the southeast corner of Hunt Club and Riverside on land leased from the Airport Authority.
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