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Mayor Jim Watson wants to make sure the City of Ottawa is involved in the redevelopment of LeBreton Flats.
“The city needs to be at the table for these discussions,” Watson said during a city council meeting Wednesday.
Watson said he’ll ask for council’s support to enter into negotiations with the National Capital Commission and RendezVous LeBreton Group, the consortium led by the Ottawa Senators and the NCC’s preferred redevelopment partner.
The NCC continues to negotiate the land-use deal with RendezVous.
The city doesn’t have much say about LeBreton Flats redevelopment, but it’s a major stakeholder.
The city will be impacted across several departments, including planning, transportation, emergency services and public works.
Plus, the city will be running an LRT system through the property.
Watson, a non-voting member of the NCC board, said he’ll bring a report to the finance and economic development committee and council in the next few months. He wants council to give him permission to lead the negotiations, along with city manager Steve Kanellakos.
He wants to know more about how the Ottawa Senators plan to finance the new arena and what the organization’s plans are for the Canadian Tire Centre. The loss of the NHL arena in Kanata will have a serious effect on the west end, Watson said.
The mayor said the city has already begun commercially confidential and “exploratory” discussions with the RendezVous about how the city can participate in the redevelopment. The NCC asked the city and RendezVous to have those talks.
There have also been talks about decontamination at LeBreton Flats. The city offers developers major tax and development fee breaks for cleaning up key brownfield properties in Ottawa.
City hall recently scored an important senior manager who will become a key internal consultant on the LeBreton file.
Steve Willis, the city’s general manager of planning, worked for the NCC as the head of capital planning.
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“The city needs to be at the table for these discussions,” Watson said during a city council meeting Wednesday.
Watson said he’ll ask for council’s support to enter into negotiations with the National Capital Commission and RendezVous LeBreton Group, the consortium led by the Ottawa Senators and the NCC’s preferred redevelopment partner.
The NCC continues to negotiate the land-use deal with RendezVous.
The city doesn’t have much say about LeBreton Flats redevelopment, but it’s a major stakeholder.
The city will be impacted across several departments, including planning, transportation, emergency services and public works.
Plus, the city will be running an LRT system through the property.
Watson, a non-voting member of the NCC board, said he’ll bring a report to the finance and economic development committee and council in the next few months. He wants council to give him permission to lead the negotiations, along with city manager Steve Kanellakos.
He wants to know more about how the Ottawa Senators plan to finance the new arena and what the organization’s plans are for the Canadian Tire Centre. The loss of the NHL arena in Kanata will have a serious effect on the west end, Watson said.
The mayor said the city has already begun commercially confidential and “exploratory” discussions with the RendezVous about how the city can participate in the redevelopment. The NCC asked the city and RendezVous to have those talks.
There have also been talks about decontamination at LeBreton Flats. The city offers developers major tax and development fee breaks for cleaning up key brownfield properties in Ottawa.
City hall recently scored an important senior manager who will become a key internal consultant on the LeBreton file.
Steve Willis, the city’s general manager of planning, worked for the NCC as the head of capital planning.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
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