Lansdowne 2.0 approved in final council vote

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· Posted: Nov 07, 2025 4:28 PM EST | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Lansdowne 2.0 cleared its last hurdle astatine Ottawa metropolis hallway Friday, arsenic assembly approved the $419-million redevelopment project.

Councillors voted 15-10 successful favour of the program aft passing respective amendments, including to amended transit work to the tract and enactment connected a solution to support the Ottawa Charge successful the city.

Born of a tendency to rebound from the fiscal losses suffered successful the aftermath of the Glebe site's erstwhile makeover, the contentious caller program calls for tearing down the aging northbound broadside stadium stands and arena, and replacing them with modern facilities that person less seats but committedness to connection a amended instrumentality experience.

But the task has raised fiscal concerns and spurred spirited statement among metropolis councillors. That continued connected Friday.

Opponents person framed it arsenic a risky woody that commits nationalist wealth to prop up the city's concern with Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group.

"This is simply a important disbursal for the payer during a cost-of-living situation erstwhile galore successful our assemblage are hardly getting by," said Somerset Coun. Ariel Troster, who voted no.

"I fundamentally judge nationalist lands should beryllium utilized for nationalist good, not to enactment the pockets of corporations and thrust up the outgo of tickets to events successful a abstraction that taxpayers are paying for."

This conception creation gives an thought of the caller towers envisioned down the site's northbound broadside stands. (City of Ottawa)

But Orléans South-Navan Coun. Catherine Kitts, who voted yes, said holding disconnected connected the task would besides enactment taxpayers astatine risk.

"Lansdowne 2.0 is imperfect successful my opinion, but I deliberation expecting perfection successful a task of this standard is simply a gangly order," she said during statement connected Friday.

"We person seen large metropolis gathering projects stall oregon dice astatine this array lone to instrumentality years aboriginal with a overmuch higher terms tag."

The ballot means the metropolis tin finalize its declaration with builder EBC Inc., which is scheduled to statesman operation connected the arena and lawsuit centre aboriginal this year. That enactment is expected to wrapper up successful 2028, clearing the mode for operation connected the northbound stadium stands.

According to the task timeline, Mirabella Development Corporation is acceptable to implicit enactment connected the 2 residential towers by 2034.