[Orleans] Shenkman Arts Centre | 20m | 3.5 fl | U/C

[waterloowarrior]

Shenkman Arts Center - U/C
Part of the Orleans Town Center concept, this facillity will house a 500-seat concert hall, among other things
Developer: Orleans Town Center Partnership
Location: Centrum Blvd. in Orleans
Web: http://www.orleansonline.ca/pages/A2006091301.htm
http://www.articipate.ca/en/The_Shen...Centre_21.html
Rendering:

Ground broken on new arts centre

http://www.eastottawa.ca/article-151...ts-centre.html
by Jim Donnelly
View all articles from Jim Donnelly
Article online since October 24th 2007, 15:30


Bulldozers started clearing room for the new arts centre building this week. Photo by Darren Brown

Ground broken on new arts centre
Bulldozers have finally broken ground at the site of the future Shenkman Arts Centre, with builders saying a current spate of unseasonably warm weather is helping progress.
“Right now, we’re doing tree removal and picking up some of the overburden, and getting ready to start doing some of the excavation work for the building,” said Toronto-based Aecon Buildings’ Lonny Howard, site supervisor of the project, adding the initial stage will take at least two weeks.

Though he wouldn’t comment on overall project timelines, Howard said the company just moved onto the site late last week. “We’re set up here on-site,” he said from his cell phone. “We have a site office on the north side of the City of Ottawa building (on Centrum Boulevard), and we’ve just moved in ourselves and we’re getting settled in.

“The initial stages are underway, and hopefully this good weather can hold on and we can make some progress.”

Organizers involved with the $37 million public-private partnership between the City of Ottawa and the Orléans Town Centre Partnership, a group of private interests, said they were elated at the news. “Because it’s been such a long time coming, people are still almost incredulous that it’s actually happening,” said Sandra MacInnis, campaign manager of Arts Ottawa East’s “Articipate” fundraising drive.

“It’s very exciting,” she continued. The Articipate campaign has now raised around 70 per cent of its goal of $5 million, with a $1 million donation from the Shenkman Family Foundation, as well as $2.5 million in provincial funding.

“For us out here, this is huge.”

The east-end facility slated for a spring 2009 opening was christened the Shenkman Arts Centre after the the Shenkman Family Foundation’s donation.

some more info
http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa...M-ECO-0017.htm

[movebyleap]

Has anyone noticed how we always only get to see the facade of this building in all renderings? (This includes the Shenkman website). Is the rest of it so unsightly that it must be kept from us until the building is a done deal?

[Stanzmastertron3000]

As if something like this is being built in Orleans.

[Beatrix]

Originally Posted by Stanzmastertron3000

As if something like this is being built in Orleans.

Well it's about time we get something substantial from the city.

[O-Town Hockey]

Originally Posted by movebyleap

Has anyone noticed how we always only get to see the facade of this building in all renderings? (This includes the Shenkman website). Is the rest of it so unsightly that it must be kept from us until the building is a done deal?

That is because the theatre is actually being built into a complex which includes a Super Walmart, Best Buy, and a Loblaws.

[Jamaican-Phoenix]

Originally Posted by O-Town Hockey

That is because the theatre is actually being built into a complex which includes a Super Walmart, Best Buy, and a Loblaws.

Are you @#$%ing kidding me?!

[O-Town Hockey]

Originally Posted by Jamaican-Phoenix

Are you @#$%ing kidding me?!

Yes

[Jamaican-Phoenix]

Originally Posted by O-Town Hockey

Yes

Oh, thank God. With this city and the suburbs, ya never know.

Phew, that's a relief...

[Cre47]

That means two Wal-Marts in Orleans, unless they are moving the one on Innes Road, but it's been there for like only two years or something. The invasion of Wal-Mart continues.

[jeremy_haak]

Originally Posted by O-Town Hockey

That is because the theatre is actually being built into a complex which includes a Super Walmart, Best Buy, and a Loblaws.

Man, you really have to be careful with what you say.

[Aylmer]

reminds me of the NAC/CNA

[c_speed3108]

Tower Crane is up....

[c_speed3108]

http://www.articipate.ca/vm/newvisua...20Plan-web.pdf


Many additional buildings added including a 3 story hotel

two 5 story office buildings

a 12 story seniors condo
a 14 story lux condo

two 8 story affordable apartment buildings

an expansion on the YMCA

and check out building I:

first floor retail
second floor office
thrid floor residental

a number of townhouses and other things...

[c_speed3108]

Floorplans are also up

http://www.articipate.ca/en/More_inf...plans_156.html

[c_speed3108]

These pictures happen to suck since I only had a cell phone camera on me...plus they were taken through glass and it was snowing. But it was a neat shot with the cement boom in the air.

The building sticking up above the Zellers sign is the movie theatres.

The building way in the back right smack in the middle of the picture is a fairly new apartment building. Right behind the constuction is the old Cumberland City Hall. You can see a bit of it's roof.

The peaky looking roof at the left of the shot is a Condo from back in the Cumberland days: Russell Condo #21 (there's a history lesson)

[c_speed3108]

Update here:

Tower Crane is now down.

Road ans sewer constuction behind the Arts Centre, Client Service Centre and the YMCA is underway.

[c_speed3108]

[movebyleap]

This theatre was originally going to be an 800 seat venue. A smaller theatre was also to be included in the complex. The city and the company building the project apparently kept cutting the budget for this project until it became a 500 seat theatre. The smaller theatre in this project will now have 100 seats. The problem? Five hundred seats is actually TOO SMALL to attract world class big selling acts. (Note that the very succesful Centrepointe Theatre in Nepean is regularly sold out and has about 750 seats).
At the same time, 500 seats is TOO BIG for community groups who want to stage smaller scale performances.
Meanwhile, the smaller 100 seat theatre is really useless. I'm a music teacher in the east end and with only about 24 students performing I need a theatre that will seat about 150-180 (performers, families, and friends).
There have been some complaints. Ideally they should have stuck with the 800 seat big theatre and a 200 seat smaller venue. But hey, this is Ottawa = NO VISION!!!

[movebyleap]

This theatre was originally going to be an 800 seat venue. A smaller theatre was also to be included in the complex. The city and the company building the project apparently kept cutting the budget for this project until it became a 500 seat theatre. The smaller theatre in this project will now have 100 seats. The problem? Five hundred seats is actually TOO SMALL to attract world class big selling acts. (Note that the very succesful Centrepointe Theatre in Nepean is regularly sold out and has about 750 seats).
At the same time, 500 seats is TOO BIG for community groups who want to stage smaller scale performances.
Meanwhile, the smaller 100 seat theatre is really useless. I'm a music teacher in the east end and with only about 24 students performing I need a theatre that will seat about 150-180 (performers, families, and friends).
There have been some complaints. Ideally they should have stuck with the 800 seat big theatre and a 200 seat smaller venue. But hey, this is Ottawa = NO VISION!!!

[Acajack]

I am really, really glad that Orleans is getting an arts centre. But driving by the site the other day on the 174 I couldn’t help thinking that the big cement block reminded me of the sarcophagus in which the melted-down nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is entombed.

Maybe I’ve got too vivid an imagination…