originalmuffins said:
I very much think that area needs the parking garage lot to be redeveloped with street frontage retail and things that would be of service. Add in another residential tower and underground parking, and all of a sudden, you have a perfect addition to the Rideau Centre.

I hope they do something interesting with the remaining Nordstrom retail soon, it would be great to finally see something(s) come to life there.
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I'm so with you on retail. This new building + the hostel + the SAW/OAG are great, but it's missing that ground level retail. It could be a nice little annex to the market if it had some extra street interaction. On that note, I wonder what's planned for the podium of this tower?
 
I think they had mentioned they want a restaurant or café in the old Registry building. I assume the Registry and the retail block connected would be one unit, with the terrace. Otherwise, there's a mall entrance and retail bays in the "mall" (podium). Rest of the frontage is the lobby and car/delivery ramps.

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Doesn't have as much of a skyline impact as I hoped. Mostly just a great addition to the Nicholas streetscape.
 
Definitely not a big impact from farther out, but it's a great addition when you are walking around the area. I hope they re-develop alot of those lots nearby.
 
ponyboycurtis said:
What lots are you thinking? There is a parking lot on Besserer at Waller.
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All that's left at this point, unless he's thinking of the DND parking, which will never be redeveloped until DND moves.

Island between Desmarais and DND could maybe be redeveloped (with the ramp removed) once Kettle Island Bridge is built.

There's also the Desmarais parking, which was supposed to be an extension of Desmarais (curving the opposite direction).
 
J.OT13 said:
All that's left at this point, unless he's thinking of the DND parking, which will never be redeveloped until DND moves.

Island between Desmarais and DND could maybe be redeveloped (with the ramp removed) once Kettle Island Bridge is built.

There's also the Desmarais parking, which was supposed to be an extension of Desmarais (curving the opposite direction).
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Given that I love the Desmarais building, that would be awesome.

I suppose the University has those parking lots along Stewart that will eventually turn into something.

Courtyard Marriot has the adjacent parking lot.

Parking lot between the Little Theatre and I forget the name building.

The LCBO across the street.

I suppose the parking deck along Waller if we are compiling a list.

These properties are probably the most likely candidates. Barring some type of fire please stay away from the old ramshackle buildings along Rideau and surrounding area. If you touch my Shanghai Wonton Noodle house I am coming for you.

Struggling to think of anything else that you would consider in the immediate area as I look on Google maps. I won't get into anything on the other side of KE. The Uni is it's own thing. Sandy Hill is borderline untouchable as is much of the market.

We are starting to reach saturation point of the Great Clump. University projects aside are probably looking at another 8/9 towers or so before having to take the wrecking ball to anything other than the CourtYard Marriot.

The standalone Shoppers across from the Bytowne is a travesty. Let's not do that. Ever.
 
Really hopping the Courtyard is fully redeveloped at some point. There's a parking garage under it, so they could at least do something with the surface parking.

Parking between Little Theatre and Envie will need to be another back to back, wall to wall nightmare considering the little bit of space left. This stretch of Rideau will forever be the most oppressing block Downtown.

BlueJay gave us a sneak peak of the LCBO redevelopment (Rimap). It's another clunker, but with decent materials (maybe).

That stand alone Shoppers is, fwiw, the nicest ever built (from an exterior design perspective).

As always, really hoping that heritage blocks remain untouched. Plenty of parking lots and crappy 60s-2000s buildings to redevelop.
 
J.OT13 said:
Really hopping the Courtyard is fully redeveloped at some point. There's a parking garage under it, so they could at least do something with the surface parking.

Parking between Little Theatre and Envie will need to be another back to back, wall to wall nightmare considering the little bit of space left. This stretch of Rideau will forever be the most oppressing block Downtown.

BlueJay gave us a sneak peak of the LCBO redevelopment (Rimap). It's another clunker, but with decent materials (maybe).

That stand alone Shoppers is, fwiw, the nicest ever built (from an exterior design perspective).

As always, really hoping that heritage blocks remain untouched. Plenty of parking lots and crappy 60s-2000s buildings to redevelop.
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Looking closer it appears the parking ramp at Courtyard appears to turn down underneath the surface lot. Seems like the Indigo is its own thing but the corner lot at least is occupied.

Never occurred to me that there was underground parking there.

I'm with you on that Shoppers being a handsome building. It's actually a legitimately nice structure that did a great job of building new to look like old. I'm just trying to imagine a similarly styled midrise tower above it. Imagine if CP 1 & 2 had a podium in a style like this? I legit don't mind the towers but the podium is a stucco botch job.

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While I am thinking about it. Here is another similar style retail building that I like. My wife actually interned on this site while attending Algonquin some years back as an Architectural Technologist.

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Imagine if Riverrain had this as a podium. I'm not even saying all the interior would have to look like this but at least the face approaching from Cummings bridge and wrapping around to Montgomery and River rd.
 
Fully agree. CP and Riverain, they could have built the podiums like one of those. Red brick is the goat.

Also didn't know Courtyard had underground parking until my uncle stayed there once maybe a decade ago.
 
Yeah, so I was meaning the old parking garage because it's attached to Rideau, but instead of just being a parking garage, I'd love to see what CF could create in terms of another tower with like 4-5 levels of underground parking instead.

I was wondering if something new could come in at 3 Daly, but it seems difficult. The DND lot is a pipedream to redevelop but I don't see DND moving anytime soon. But these were the areas in red that I was thinking about for developing the area a bit more:

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CF does want to eventually redevelop the parking garage into a hotel (probably half hotel, half condos). That parking garage was built on the cheap in 2006 to replace the old Ogilvie parking garage from the 1960s. I could see them move on that within the decade.
 
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