Barrhaven South recreation complex | Proposed

[jeremy_haak]

Originally Posted by MountainView

And why does the proposed school already have portables in the back?! Is it not cheaper in the long run to build the school bigger now and have it sit empty then expanding later?

I understand that it is very common to build new schools with portables at the outset because neighbourhoods tend to age over time. I suppose it is easier to build it with portables at the outset when demand is the greatest and then remove the portables later as the number of young families in the neighbourhood shrink.

[waterloowarrior]

here's the site plan application for the adjacent school
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/...appId=__81AY4P

[S-Man]

Ceetainly, once this is built, concurrent with the upgrade of Cambrian/Jockvale, the area will seem a lot less "infancy-ish"?

Keep in mind, before summer, 2009, there wasn't a single house in Barrhaven South. Literally, it popped up overnight. The Greenbank realignment and new bridge will complete this, as well as aid transit. Notice how development just stops as you head west down Cambrian west of Greenbank. That corridor isn't being touched until the pavers get there..

One though I've always had, and it goes for western parts of Findlay Creek as well, is that the land originally there (western Barrhaven South - towards Cedarview) was and is awfully low. Like, swampy cedar forest kind of low. I would never be comfortable buying into an area that looks like it could fill up in one of the increasingly frequent once-in-a-century floods we seem to get in Ottawa these days.
How do they put people at ease in this situation?

[waterloowarrior]

renders
some minor floorplan updates as well

On the main level, changes include addition of a 'Dry Changeroom' outside the gym, and alterations to the 'housekeeping' areas on the east approach of the building. Changes on the second level include a boardroom in the top, centre of the floorplan as well as an additional Meeting Room at the eastern end, along the rink view area.

http://www.stevedesroches.ca/index.p...reation-centre

[Uhuniau]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

renders
some minor floorplan updates as well

Look at all the pretty Lego trees! Vibrant!

[waterloowarrior]

Site Plan application
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/...appId=__8567UF

[waterloowarrior]

Ellis Don awarded the construction contract .. construction to be completed fall 2014
http://www.stevedesroches.ca/index.p...reation-centre