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An aquarium will almost certainly not be part of RendezVous LeBreton’s plan to redevelop LeBreton Flats, an adviser to Eugene Melnyk said Wednesday.
“It’s highly, highly unlikely that we would ever pursue that,” Ken Villazor said in an interview. “Based on our understanding of what the numbers would be, at this stage it doesn’t appear to us that it’s a financially viable attractor.”
The National Capital Commission’s board voted last week to begin negotiations with RendezVous LeBreton after its bid was rated more highly by an evaluation committee than a competing proposal from the Devcore Canderel DLS Group.
Villazor’s comments effectively repudiated statements made Tuesday by Fred Waks, president of Trinity Development Group, the co-developer with Senators Sports and Entertainment of the RendezVous proposal.
In an interview with the Citizen, Waks identified the Ripley’s Aquarium as one of the elements of the DCDLS plan that was attractive to RendezVous.
Waks said John Ruddy, Trinity’s founder and executive chairman, would “probably be reaching out” to DCDLS after consulting his RendezVous partners.
But Villazor called Waks statement “inaccurate,” saying RendezVous is unable to do that because “we’re still very much in the procurement phase of this project. There will be no reaching out to the DCDLS Group during this period.”
To this point, Villazor said, there have been “zero conversations” within the RendezVous team about moving some of DCDLS’s elements into its bid.
“We have no interest in integrating an aquarium into our submission. It wouldn’t serve us well to bring in an attractor element and then see it fail.
“And we’re certainly not looking at any elements that are currently within the DCDLS bid to incorporate into ours,” he emphasized.
In an email to the NCC released Wednesday, DCDLS asked the NCC to order RendezVous not to talk to or solicit any of its development partners, tenants and consultants. That prohibition, DCDLS said, was “a condition of our remaining in the process.”
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“It’s highly, highly unlikely that we would ever pursue that,” Ken Villazor said in an interview. “Based on our understanding of what the numbers would be, at this stage it doesn’t appear to us that it’s a financially viable attractor.”
The National Capital Commission’s board voted last week to begin negotiations with RendezVous LeBreton after its bid was rated more highly by an evaluation committee than a competing proposal from the Devcore Canderel DLS Group.
Villazor’s comments effectively repudiated statements made Tuesday by Fred Waks, president of Trinity Development Group, the co-developer with Senators Sports and Entertainment of the RendezVous proposal.
In an interview with the Citizen, Waks identified the Ripley’s Aquarium as one of the elements of the DCDLS plan that was attractive to RendezVous.
Waks said John Ruddy, Trinity’s founder and executive chairman, would “probably be reaching out” to DCDLS after consulting his RendezVous partners.
But Villazor called Waks statement “inaccurate,” saying RendezVous is unable to do that because “we’re still very much in the procurement phase of this project. There will be no reaching out to the DCDLS Group during this period.”
To this point, Villazor said, there have been “zero conversations” within the RendezVous team about moving some of DCDLS’s elements into its bid.
“We have no interest in integrating an aquarium into our submission. It wouldn’t serve us well to bring in an attractor element and then see it fail.
“And we’re certainly not looking at any elements that are currently within the DCDLS bid to incorporate into ours,” he emphasized.
In an email to the NCC released Wednesday, DCDLS asked the NCC to order RendezVous not to talk to or solicit any of its development partners, tenants and consultants. That prohibition, DCDLS said, was “a condition of our remaining in the process.”
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