900 Albert St | 234/203/105m | 65/56/23fl | Approved - Page 8

DanOttTor · #**141** Posted **Oct 7, 2012, 1:09 AM**

Not too bad looking at all. Unless they keep getting scaled back, then they will start looking like typical Ottawa lego blocks.

MountainView · #**142** Posted **Oct 7, 2012, 2:55 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jamaican-Phoenix

I really wish those huge panels on the side were a public form of tetris that you could play from the bus terminal...

There could be an app for it!! Play from your iPhone!

AuxTown · #**143** Posted **Oct 7, 2012, 2:29 PM**

I would LOVE to see something like that. Street video games are awesome!

• Video Link

Abe Simpson · #**144** Posted **Oct 7, 2012, 6:11 PM**

The height and scale work for me. I think they will be a decent addition to the skyline in the area. Finally starting to see some height being added west of downtown!

Beatrix · #**145** Posted **Oct 7, 2012, 6:29 PM**

I like the hight.

However, despite the multi-coloured panels, there's really nothing special about it. I agree with J.OT - seems like 1980's POMO all over again.

J.OT13 · #**146** Posted **Nov 1, 2012, 3:32 PM**

October 30th app.

From planning rational;

Quote:

The modifications are detailed as follows:
Performance
Standards Current Proposal September 2011 Proposal
Leasable
Floor Area126,984 square metres
(1,366,846 square feet)
120,733 square metres
(1,299,563 square feet)
Parking
spaces 297 (275 interior; 22 exterior) 298 (275 interior; 23 exterior)
Link height
6 storeys 3 storeys

Aside from the above minor revisions, the proposal is identical to that which was updated
in September 2011, as addressed in the Ironside Report.

http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Im...0Rationale.PDF

http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/...appId=__49CB8H

Harley613 · #**147** Posted **Nov 1, 2012, 6:36 PM**

i can't decide whether i'm more excited about this one or about Claridge Icon. Icon would be anchor to a new community of skyscraper condos...this would be anchor to a new secondary CBD....

amanfromnowhere · #**148** Posted **Nov 23, 2012, 2:27 PM**

from today's DCN:

Quote:

OFFICE AND RETAIL DEVELOPMENT

Proj: 9124953-7

Ottawa, Ottawa-Carleton Reg ON

PREPARING PLANS

LeBreton Mews, Tower A, 801 Albert, K1R 5B4

$200,000,000 est

Note: Owner is securing approvals. Scope of work, timelines for working drawings, tender for general contractor and construction will be finalized once all approvals are in place. Other components of the project are Tower B (can be followed under ID# 9117966) and Tower C (can be followed under ID# 9122311). Further update spring, 2013.

Project: proposed construction of a new 32-storey tower.

Scope: 1,291,000 square feet; 32 storeys; 4 storeys below grade

Development: New

Category: Commercial offices; Retail, wholesale services

What tower C? Do they call 6 storeys link a tower?

agl · #**149** Posted **Nov 23, 2012, 3:37 PM**

The link between the two tall towers is only 2-3 stories; the 6 story tower is on the eastern edge of the property, although in the render from the Ottawa Sun it looks like it's connected to the 32 story tower beside it for the entire 6 floors.

In Ottawa, I think developers are calling anything over 4 stories high a "tower", as it is such an achievement against all the NIMBYism.

McC · #**150** Posted **Nov 23, 2012, 3:39 PM**

There can only be one TOWER C!

J.OT13 · #**151** Posted **Nov 23, 2012, 3:58 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by McC

There can only be one TOWER C!

YES! Place de Ville Tower C 4EVER!!!

Davis137 · #**152** Posted **Nov 24, 2012, 1:36 AM**

Puuuuuhhhlllleeeezzzeee build this project!

Harley613 · #**153** Posted **Nov 24, 2012, 9:18 AM**

it's in somerset ward..diane holmes land. it won't be built as imagined unless diane retires.

waterloowarrior · #**154** Posted **Jan 15, 2013, 10:46 PM**

retail leasing info http://www.penequity.com/Docs/Downtown_Ottawa_Pkg.pdf

J.OT13 · #**155** Posted **Jan 16, 2013, 1:49 AM**

They switched it up again; now with a condo tower.

35,000 sqft could fit a grocery store. Too bad the building looks 1980s Montreal.

J.OT13 · #**156** Posted **Jan 16, 2013, 1:50 AM**

Oh, and a hotel.

McC · #**157** Posted **Jan 16, 2013, 2:14 AM**

If they're serious about a hotel, then this project has to be twenty years off, because I can't see a hotel working there until the western parcels of Lebreton and the Bayview yards are developed, and the site finally looks like what it always already should have been: the near west side of downtown.

Also, that slab condo tower is just offensive.

Back to the drawing board, please.

Harley613 · #**158** Posted **Jan 16, 2013, 6:04 AM**

The future area map makes lebreton flats and bayview yards look like communist housing projects.

McC · #**159** Posted **Jan 16, 2013, 2:50 PM**

I think that you can expect the Bayview Yards plan (from 2005-06) to change with the updated CDP this Spring, architectural tastes have changed, and the density targets have increased significantly since the concept for this site was developed in the context of the old NSLRT plan.

Harley613 · #**160** Posted **Jan 16, 2013, 5:14 PM**

I hope you're right. I was never a fan of the plans for Lebreton or Bayview. I have no idea why we would want one developer making uniform blocks. We need variety! We need Potsdamer Platz!