Frontier [2280 City Park Dr] | 64/73m | 20/24f | U/C

[YOWflier]

The city name is basically irrelevant on mail. The critical pieces of information are postal code followed by exact destination within that code. As long as those are present and correct, you can write gibberish for the rest and it'll make it.

[eltodesukane]

Originally Posted by OTSkyline

It's accessible in the sense that it is on the LRT at Blair but what I don't like about it is that transit looks very much like it was a second thought in this location.

The station drops passengers off in the far east end of the lot behind the majority of stores, restaurants and the cinemas (yes theres an entrance to Gloucester centre but I would bet the cinema, restaurants, chapters are much more of a draw than the actual "mall". It's up to everyone to march 400-500m through parking lots to get to the movie theater or whatnot for dinner and a movie. I wish the LRT would've gone more in the middle of the development (not at the edge just cuddling the 417) - oh well...

My friend works at the Gloucester WalMart. He has to be there before opening hours, when the WalMart doors in the Gloucester mall are still closed.
From the Blair transitway station, he has to walk outside around the whole mall, to reach the WalMart front entrance.
Quite a long unpleasant early morning walk, with wind/rain/snow on occasion. As if all was designed to inconvenience the user.
(and where would you park a bike if you had to?)

[J.OT13]

I might be wrong, but I think the Cinema, Chapater and a few stores/restaurants were built after the Transitway.

[acottawa]

Originally Posted by eltodesukane

My friend works at the Gloucester WalMart. He has to be there before opening hours, when the WalMart doors in the Gloucester mall are still closed.
From the Blair transitway station, he has to walk outside around the whole mall, to reach the WalMart front entrance.
Quite a long unpleasant early morning walk, with wind/rain/snow on occasion. As if all was designed to inconvenience the user.
(and where would you park a bike if you had to?)

Isn't that more of a problem with Walmart not making one of the three exits that face the transit station available to employees?

[Harley613]

My wife and I call that one 'Fake Walmart' because they have half the items of 'Real Walmart' at Trainyards haha. We never go there.

[waterloowarrior]

Building permit issued for 24 fl residential apartment building with 1 fl underground parking

[1overcosc]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

Building permit issued for 24 fl residential apartment building with 1 fl underground parking

That was fast. I would have hthou

[1overcosc]

Some would argue that Ontario's expanded rental control would dampen rental proposals.. at least this is one is going ahead.

(Sorry for above, I have no idea what I was trying to say, forgive me, it's really late here).

[BlueJay]

Construction started last week, tower crane has been up for a couple of weeks. They are already pouring concrete and forming is well underway.

[J.OT13]

Project now out of the ground.

[rocketphish]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

Blair Station photo tweeted by the mayor today

https://mobile.twitter.com/JimWatson...17756296261632

Cross-posting here too.

[waterloowarrior]

This will be called Spring Park
https://killamreit.com/apartments/new-developments

[TransitZilla]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

This will be called Spring Park
https://killamreit.com/apartments/new-developments

Our new development located in the east end of Ottawa, when complete will total four residential towers containing up to 840 units. The first phase of the development will include a 217,000 square foot, 23-storey tower containing approximately 222 units. This leading edge development will maximize efficiency with the incorporation of a geothermal energy system for the building’s heating and cooling. Site work has commenced and occupancy is anticipated in mid-2019. Located adjacent to RioCan’s Silver City Gloucester retail centre and Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) Blair Station on the Confederation Line East, the development is easily accessible to many retail, entertainment and transit options.

Coming in 2019

Cool.

[Arcologist]

This is awesome, I had no idea they had even broken ground on this.

[kevinbottawa]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

This will be called Spring Park
https://killamreit.com/apartments/new-developments

Their Halifax project is nice. For a second I thought that's what we were getting.

[Flemay]

They're up to the 7 floor now

[MoreTrains]

Originally Posted by Flemay

They're up to the 7 floor now

Pics or it didnt happen?

Also, Im still in love with this development. Taking a dying big box mall and turning it into residences with the commerical aspect. This should be what all new big box malls are.

[rocketphish]

Tower construction as of October 21, 2017:


https://www.flickr.com/photos/23575605@N08/24072802788/

by Chuck Clark on Flickr

[Multi-modal]

Are they starting Phase 2? Their original plans were to keep the stores on the west side of the property open during Phase 1, but it looks like they've demolished them.

Maybe they were having a tough time leasing those stores.

Sidenote: I suspect South Keys will be presenting plans to redevelop the 3 stores between the Walmart and the movie theatre... those stores are always going out of business, and 2 / 3 currently sit empty. I suspect they will be Stage 1 of implementing the South Keys CDP once the Trillium Line is up and running to South Keys Station.

[Arcologist]

Originally Posted by kevinbottawa

Their Halifax project is nice. For a second I thought that's what we were getting.

All their other projects are nicer than the one we're getting here... *sigh*