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The future home of an expanded Ottawa Art Gallery and redeveloped Arts Court may just look like a giant hole in the ground now, but to Alexandra Badzak, it represents a once-in-a-lifetime chance to dedicate an entire city block to arts and culture.
As the gallery’s director and chief executive, Badzak was on hand Friday as Mayor Jim Watson, city councillors and other officials got a glimpse at the buzzing construction site.
Excavation work is ongoing. Controlled blasting is being used to remove rock and deepen the pit to allow for two levels of underground parking. There have already been about 190 blasts and there’s expected to be at least a hundred more before this phase of work is done in early November. The first bit of concrete will be poured the following month.
By the time it’s done, workers will have trucked away about 50 million kilograms of rock — roughly the same weight at 33,000 Toyota Camrys.
Over the coming months, the ambitious project is expected to take shape. It will comprise a new, 5,860-square-metre (63,000 square feet) art gallery, a 21-storey mixed-use tower at 60-70 Waller St., a 250-seat multi-purpose and film-screening room, and a 120-seat theatre and four classrooms for the University of Ottawa.
The tower’s first 12 storeys will be operated as a boutique hotel; the upper eight will be condominiums. Space in the Arts Court vacated by the gallery will be repurposed, and the old and new buildings will be connected on four floors.
The new art gallery, at roughly five times its current size, is slated to open first in 2017, with the tower and Arts Court portions to be completed the following year.
“We can’t wait until we can share it with you,” Badzak told a standing-room crowd of people Friday.
The city and its partners — which include the provincial government and University of Ottawa — will together contribute $41.7 million, while the private sector will invest $60 million.
Watson credited the persistence — and perseverance — of the city’s arts and culture community for advocating so strongly for the project.
“I’m sure there are people who never thought we’d see this day,” he said.
He also credited several senior officials — city manager Kent Kirkpatrick, former deputy city manager Steve Kanellakos, acting deputy city manager Susan Jones, project manager Marco Manconi and Serge Arpin, the mayor’s top advisor — for putting in hours of work to make sure the project came together.
“They deserve our sincere thanks for making sure we’re here today,” he said. “This is an important city building project.”
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As the gallery’s director and chief executive, Badzak was on hand Friday as Mayor Jim Watson, city councillors and other officials got a glimpse at the buzzing construction site.
Excavation work is ongoing. Controlled blasting is being used to remove rock and deepen the pit to allow for two levels of underground parking. There have already been about 190 blasts and there’s expected to be at least a hundred more before this phase of work is done in early November. The first bit of concrete will be poured the following month.
By the time it’s done, workers will have trucked away about 50 million kilograms of rock — roughly the same weight at 33,000 Toyota Camrys.
Over the coming months, the ambitious project is expected to take shape. It will comprise a new, 5,860-square-metre (63,000 square feet) art gallery, a 21-storey mixed-use tower at 60-70 Waller St., a 250-seat multi-purpose and film-screening room, and a 120-seat theatre and four classrooms for the University of Ottawa.
The tower’s first 12 storeys will be operated as a boutique hotel; the upper eight will be condominiums. Space in the Arts Court vacated by the gallery will be repurposed, and the old and new buildings will be connected on four floors.
The new art gallery, at roughly five times its current size, is slated to open first in 2017, with the tower and Arts Court portions to be completed the following year.
“We can’t wait until we can share it with you,” Badzak told a standing-room crowd of people Friday.
The city and its partners — which include the provincial government and University of Ottawa — will together contribute $41.7 million, while the private sector will invest $60 million.
Watson credited the persistence — and perseverance — of the city’s arts and culture community for advocating so strongly for the project.
“I’m sure there are people who never thought we’d see this day,” he said.
He also credited several senior officials — city manager Kent Kirkpatrick, former deputy city manager Steve Kanellakos, acting deputy city manager Susan Jones, project manager Marco Manconi and Serge Arpin, the mayor’s top advisor — for putting in hours of work to make sure the project came together.
“They deserve our sincere thanks for making sure we’re here today,” he said. “This is an important city building project.”
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/mpearson78
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