Ottawa\u2019s new tallest building will be built at the corner of Preston and Carling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In December, the city\u2019s planning committee approved an amendment to the Official Plan for a 50-storey Claridge building to be constructed at 829 Carling Avenue. It will include 503 residential units and be located less than 100 metres from the Dow\u2019s Lake O-Train station, and across the street from the soon-to-be-built new Civic Hospital campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The new tower will also be located across the street from Claridge\u2019s Icon Building \u2014 Ottawa\u2019s current tallest building at 45 storeys \u2014 which opened in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe building contains a mix of unit types, including studios, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units,\u201d a city staff report read. \u201cOn the ground floor, 300 square metres of commercial space will front onto Preston Street, reinforcing the Mainstreet Corridor character and providing active street frontage, while the main residential and office entrance will be accessed from Carling Avenue.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2021, Claridge originally planned to build a 60-storey tower but scaled back its plans. That proposal also called for 459 units, fewer than the number that will be built.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Claridge submitted its original proposal nearly four years ago, Neil Malhotra, its chief financial officer, told the Ottawa Business Journal he didn\u2019t expect significant backlash over the tower\u2019s then-proposed 60-storey height. He noted the city had already opened the door to \u201csuper-tall buildings\u201d in the neighbourhood after green-lighting projects such as the Icon and Richcraft\u2019s proposal for a trio of towers as tall as 55 storeys just down the street at 845 Carling Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To address complaints that the first plan included too much parking, Claridge has cut the proposed number of vehicle parking spots to 196 from 385 in the original proposal, while boosting the number of bicycle spaces to 482.\u00a0Vehicle parking spaces would be located in a six-storey underground garage accessible from Sidney Street.<\/p>\n
With files by David Sali and Mia Jensen.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa\u2019s new tallest building will be built at the corner of Preston and Carling.\u00a0 In December, the city\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-416121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}