City asks developers for input on new Arts Court tower

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Expanding Arts Court will require a $3.5-million profit from adding a privately owned tower to a corner of its Sandy Hill site, but the city is asking private developers’ advice on just what sort of tower it ought to be. The project is to cost $36 million in all, be complete by summer 2015, and is to result in a huge expansion for the Ottawa Art Gallery and improved space for Arts Court’s other tenants, from the SAW Gallery to the headquarters of numerous arts organizations like Opera Lyra and Odyssey Theatre. The tower is an integral part of the plan, both for the money it’s to bring into the budget and the people it’s to bring into the neighbourhood, which is now a half-dead space between the Rideau Centre and the University of Ottawa. But whether it should be condos, apartments, a hotel, an office, a retirement home, or some combination of them is up in the air.

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