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Enough progress has been made in talks with Eugene Melnyk’s RendezVous LeBreton group to designate it as the preferred proponent and enter into formal negotiations, the National Capital Commission’s board heard Thursday.
NCC official Marco Zanetti said the agency’s staff have met 22 times over the past six months with RendezVous officials to resolve preliminary issues.
Based on responses received from LeBreton in October, Zanetti said he was “cautiously optimistic” that a development agreement was possible. But he said it would take at least another year to negotiate a deal, and major issues remain to be resolved.
RendezVous LeBreton, a joint venture of the Senators Sports & Entertainment and Trinity Development, won the right to negotiate a development agreement for 21 hectares of LeBreton Flats last April, beating out a competing proposal from the Devcore Canderel DLS group.
Thursday’s update was the first the NCC has provided since then. Talks between the NCC and the RendezVous group began early this summer but, until now, little was known publicly about how they were progressing.
The RendezVous proposal includes three public anchor uses: a “major event centre” that would become the Ottawa Senators’ new home; a sports and recreation community centre open to able-bodied and disabled users; and a dual-rink Sensplex.
The development plan envisions five distinct neighbourhoods, to be built in three phases over two decades or more, along with a restored heritage aqueduct lined with cafés and shops.
The proposal calls for 4,400 residential units, significant office space and stores. When fully developed, as many as 7,000 people would live there, with easy access to two stations along the city’s new Confederation LRT line, which will open in 2018.
The RendezVous group has pledged to make 25 per cent of the residential units affordable for those with modest incomes and has recruited the Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corp., the city’s largest non-profit housing organization, to deliver on that promise.
If talks with RendezVous ultimately falter or collapse, the NCC has the option of entering into negotiations with the Devcore group, assuming that group is still interested.
If any agreement is reached, it will be submitted to the federal government for approval. Once the government signs off, the project will shift to the municipal arena in 2018 or 2019 for the necessary official plan and zoning amendments.
That will also be the next time that citizens have a chance to make their views known about the development.
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NCC official Marco Zanetti said the agency’s staff have met 22 times over the past six months with RendezVous officials to resolve preliminary issues.
Based on responses received from LeBreton in October, Zanetti said he was “cautiously optimistic” that a development agreement was possible. But he said it would take at least another year to negotiate a deal, and major issues remain to be resolved.
RendezVous LeBreton, a joint venture of the Senators Sports & Entertainment and Trinity Development, won the right to negotiate a development agreement for 21 hectares of LeBreton Flats last April, beating out a competing proposal from the Devcore Canderel DLS group.
Thursday’s update was the first the NCC has provided since then. Talks between the NCC and the RendezVous group began early this summer but, until now, little was known publicly about how they were progressing.
The RendezVous proposal includes three public anchor uses: a “major event centre” that would become the Ottawa Senators’ new home; a sports and recreation community centre open to able-bodied and disabled users; and a dual-rink Sensplex.
The development plan envisions five distinct neighbourhoods, to be built in three phases over two decades or more, along with a restored heritage aqueduct lined with cafés and shops.
The proposal calls for 4,400 residential units, significant office space and stores. When fully developed, as many as 7,000 people would live there, with easy access to two stations along the city’s new Confederation LRT line, which will open in 2018.
The RendezVous group has pledged to make 25 per cent of the residential units affordable for those with modest incomes and has recruited the Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corp., the city’s largest non-profit housing organization, to deliver on that promise.
If talks with RendezVous ultimately falter or collapse, the NCC has the option of entering into negotiations with the Devcore group, assuming that group is still interested.
If any agreement is reached, it will be submitted to the federal government for approval. Once the government signs off, the project will shift to the municipal arena in 2018 or 2019 for the necessary official plan and zoning amendments.
That will also be the next time that citizens have a chance to make their views known about the development.
dbutler@postmedia.com
twitter.com/ButlerDon
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