[J.OT13]

Report on the Civic Hospital link to Dow's Lake Station.

https://pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=308585

Good news is, they picked the underpass and have a future proofed design.

Bad news is, they won't do anything beyond improving the crosswalk for a very long time (15 to 20 years).

 

[Ottawacurious]

One of the photos from this listing

 

[Katimavid]

not huge on realtors but they are a great source for photos like these

 

[J.OT13]

Approved by Committee yesterday, though I don't what that means if anything in terms of steps to actually get the thing done.

Jeff Leiper 🛴🚲🚇♻️🚌📊 (@jleiper.bsky.social)

A personal thanks to Graham Bird and Ritchard Brisbin who have persisted for months to get the City to recommend a connection between LRT and the new Civic that will serve properly the major space this will be in our city. Approved by committee this morning.

bsky.app

 

[Ottawacurious]

Again from Jeffs newsletter

WRt to next council meeting:

"In our ward, I'm pleased that we'll likely pass a recommendation that an overhead connection between Dow's Lake station and the new Ottawa Hospital be the preferred option."

 

[J.OT13]

And overhead is a mistake. It's the below grade option that's preferred.

 

[J.OT13]

From yesterday.Parking garage. The first pick is from the plaza by Dow's Lake, just above the stairs.

Big hole and pile driving at the hospital site.

 

[casscadia]

Numerous views of the massive wasteland that is this construction site, taken from the Dominion Observatory grounds yesterday (none of these do justice to just how big this empty space is):

 

[J.OT13]

Hoping Emanulix does a drone video here soon.

 

[Ottawacurious]

Not suggesting Ottawa needs a 22 storeys tower like Mississauga but I dislike we didn't opt for more height instead of the massive spread.

The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital, a $13.9-billion “state-of-the-art” health-care centre that will rise up 22 storeys on the same site as the current Mississauga Hospital, will check in at 2.8 million sq. ft. in size when completed. That’s roughly three times the size of the current hospital, which first opened at the southwest corner of Hurontario Street and The Queensway West in 1958.

 

[J.OT13]

$13.9B! Ottawa's Civic only has a $2.8B budget.

The new Civic will be 12 floors at its highest, far taller than any other hospital on Ottawa The site is large enough for a more spread. A lower building is probably preferred to avoid chopping up services on multiple floors and to make evacuations easier.

A big part of future expansion will be adding floors to the west wing.