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Originally Posted by J.OT13
This would be a great replacement for the City of Ottawa parking garage in the Market.
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I would rather that they demolish that parking garage and then dig an equivalent underground garage with a space on the ground for a proper open air market. With the coming of the LRT just a block away, the ByWard Market needs more space for more people to just hang out.
Instead of the cramped linear corridors hemmed in by cars, it would be nice to have a more free-flowing european style market square:
I would also love to see the streets beside the market building decluttered and pedestrianized (at least for the summer months) with places to sit and eat street food like in Boston's Quincy Market, which has the same bones as the ByWard Market (a central market building lined with store fronts on either side) but they've managed to make room for more people and activities like busking and sidewalk cafes while providing relatively uncluttered photo ops for tourists.
Sounds like a bizarre twist, but if they treated the ByWard market area streets like they did Lansdowne, blurring the boundaries between street and sidewalk, we'd have a much more liveable space that is flexible in the different seasons by allowing cars only on certain weekdays and/or cold months.