It’s 36 acres. RCMP will be vacating. 6 times the size the NCC is offering. Direct access to 417 and the LRT via the footbridge to Tremblay/VIA station.
That’s the [LH Nicholson building](https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=4706) (aka: old RCMP HQ). It’s been designated as heritage, but it’s also in severe disrepair, so who knows what they’re going to do with it. It’s owned by PSPC (as expected), who are in the middle of a HUGE divestment of property and based on assessments probably doesn’t meet the threshold for them to hold on to it – so a private owner could possibly see it come up for purchase in the next 5-10 years, but there’s still the issue of the Heritage designation in the FHBRO system – whoever buys that property may be forced to build *around* Nicholson bldg.
Fun fact: the Quebecois architect who designed this building was hand-picked by the Pope!
ReferenceAny778
Yeah fuck Lebreton, I want it off the Queensway as well
Mauri416
I guess really nothing around there (bars, restaurants)
WackHeisenBauer
Wait a second. Is this Mark Sutcliffe’s burner?
Barbicels
It’s also where a future Ottawa River tunnel might debouch, intriguingly.
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CeedeeNumber88
I’d love that lol. I could walk there in 30 minutes
XXXKStar
We are still in that building and with secure server rooms and forensic labs that would need to be built as replacements, we aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. This keeps coming up as a site for the rink and it’s amazing how little people know about their city. It’s like the people who keep saying use the old DND building by the Rideau Center. Not going to happen in the time frame needed for a new rink.
amach9
I’d be down for that
danauns
1st pic, under your label. That’s the old city dump I believe.
……a perfect spot.
The land would have to be remediated, but as it sits it’s just a giant waste of space.
Benjamin_Stark
In my opinion, this is too far from any decent, walkable parts of the city.
LeBreton is a good location because it is close to Little Italy and to the west end of Sparks Street. I know that end of Sparks is kind of dead right now, but the stadi would reinvigorate it, and it would become the pedestrian connection between LeBreton and the ByWard Market.
72Handicap
Being next to a highway isn’t always a good thing. Stopped traffic at the ramp intersections would get backed up onto the Queensway on gamedays, and make it more of a shit show than it already is, especially on weekdays.
TeamScience79
This site might fit the stadium itself but to me it looks that’s about it. No room for any parking, no room for any other development (aka Maple Leaf Square, Edmonton’s arena district) and while there is an LRT connection it isn’t that ideally connected. I do not see how this site compares to Lebreton (if the NCC offers any more land) or Bayview (which had the extra room already).
Ok_Captain7856
this is a terrible location. there is literally nothing around it for fans pre and post game within walking distance… traffic would be terrible at the off ramp… need to be DT or lebreton, if not leave it in kanata as much as I hate driving there,
jmejia09
Does anyone else think that would be an awful place to have an arena? One one side you have Overbrook/Vanier and the highway/coventry, the other side you have Trainyards then Alta Vista. Having lived here my whole life, I don’t walk in either of those areas at night lol Lebreton or centretown is MILES better as an option imho.
spartacat_12
Accessing this site from the LRT would involve walking almost 20 minutes across a pedestrian bridge, through a parking lot, then across the Vanier Parkway. Plus the station only serves Line 1, so anyone coming from the south end would have to transfer trains.
While it is centrally located, it really isn’t downtown. The river and highway would make it tough for anyone to actually walk to games
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Melnyk talked about building on that location.
That’s the [LH Nicholson building](https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=4706) (aka: old RCMP HQ). It’s been designated as heritage, but it’s also in severe disrepair, so who knows what they’re going to do with it. It’s owned by PSPC (as expected), who are in the middle of a HUGE divestment of property and based on assessments probably doesn’t meet the threshold for them to hold on to it – so a private owner could possibly see it come up for purchase in the next 5-10 years, but there’s still the issue of the Heritage designation in the FHBRO system – whoever buys that property may be forced to build *around* Nicholson bldg.
Fun fact: the Quebecois architect who designed this building was hand-picked by the Pope!
Yeah fuck Lebreton, I want it off the Queensway as well
I guess really nothing around there (bars, restaurants)
Wait a second. Is this Mark Sutcliffe’s burner?
It’s also where a future Ottawa River tunnel might debouch, intriguingly.
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I’d love that lol. I could walk there in 30 minutes
We are still in that building and with secure server rooms and forensic labs that would need to be built as replacements, we aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. This keeps coming up as a site for the rink and it’s amazing how little people know about their city. It’s like the people who keep saying use the old DND building by the Rideau Center. Not going to happen in the time frame needed for a new rink.
I’d be down for that
1st pic, under your label. That’s the old city dump I believe.
……a perfect spot.
The land would have to be remediated, but as it sits it’s just a giant waste of space.
In my opinion, this is too far from any decent, walkable parts of the city.
LeBreton is a good location because it is close to Little Italy and to the west end of Sparks Street. I know that end of Sparks is kind of dead right now, but the stadi would reinvigorate it, and it would become the pedestrian connection between LeBreton and the ByWard Market.
Being next to a highway isn’t always a good thing. Stopped traffic at the ramp intersections would get backed up onto the Queensway on gamedays, and make it more of a shit show than it already is, especially on weekdays.
This site might fit the stadium itself but to me it looks that’s about it. No room for any parking, no room for any other development (aka Maple Leaf Square, Edmonton’s arena district) and while there is an LRT connection it isn’t that ideally connected. I do not see how this site compares to Lebreton (if the NCC offers any more land) or Bayview (which had the extra room already).
this is a terrible location. there is literally nothing around it for fans pre and post game within walking distance… traffic would be terrible at the off ramp… need to be DT or lebreton, if not leave it in kanata as much as I hate driving there,
Does anyone else think that would be an awful place to have an arena? One one side you have Overbrook/Vanier and the highway/coventry, the other side you have Trainyards then Alta Vista. Having lived here my whole life, I don’t walk in either of those areas at night lol Lebreton or centretown is MILES better as an option imho.
Accessing this site from the LRT would involve walking almost 20 minutes across a pedestrian bridge, through a parking lot, then across the Vanier Parkway. Plus the station only serves Line 1, so anyone coming from the south end would have to transfer trains.
While it is centrally located, it really isn’t downtown. The river and highway would make it tough for anyone to actually walk to games