Designing Lansdowne Park
Published on May 23, 2009
The negotiations between the City of Ottawa and the Lansdowne Live! group have begun to create a design and economic plan for Lansdowne Park. The design part will likely be more of a collaboration, with the developers asking the city for their requirements and trying to fit them into the park and budget. The negotiations will likely come over the budget and financial requirements of the developers. The developers will want some commercial space as public space doesn’t provide them a return on their investment; without it the city would be left with funding the whole project as pure public space. There is also a list of requirements the plan must follow, such as accommodation of the farmer’s market and city approval of all tenants, design and form of buildings.
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