LeBreton Flats: The Trouble Is Not The Sens
Given the 60-year period that the National Capital Commission has not been able to develop LeBreton Flats, given its unremarkable past performance, it’s doubtful that the problem is the NCC.
That said, the editor must admit a bias … I’m an Ottawa Senators fan.
For the sake of the team, I would hope that Senators officials would not move the arena to the Flats. The NCC will be a often source of trouble.
The Bulldog has outlined in previous posts the problems with the move, which are many, but the No. 1 reason is the slow, unrealistic and bureaucratic dealings with the current NCC. There’s a reason why the Flats have not been developed for more than half-a-century.
When your agent was a reporter, the NCC proposed turning LeBreton into a high-tech park without remediating the problem of polluted land. That would be left up to the builders of the high-tech projects. I covered the story.
Not one high-tech company built on the site. The companies wanted to locate in Kanata where they could cluster and could buy cheap land that wasn’t polluted.
The NCC project failed miserably.
Bulldog reader Miranda Gray should feel free to express her opinion, but this publication disagrees with it:
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At some point soon, we’ll need to tell Sens to poop or get off the pot. https://t.co/crL70jQQNc
— Miranda Gray (@mirgray) June 20, 2025
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I am in complete agreement with you, Ken. Lebreton Flats is a stunning piece of property adjacent to the Ottawa River. Perhaps instead overloading the beauty of that particular site with concrete and glass, it might serve a better purpose just leaving it as is .. contaminated land and all.
There really isn’t anything wrong with green lushness meeting an expanse of water.
Sometimes greed just gets in the way of nature.
Besides the net zero requirements and the unknown cost of remediation of the lands, the LRT can’t move 20,000 people quickly. It would take an hour and a half using East West and South LRT as we all know the NCC doesn’t want any parking by the public on the site. And the stations aren’t large enough to hold the people while they wait for the trains which means you have to have your kids standing outside of the stations at -20 c until the train shows up. God forbid that the train break down at any point. And then there’s the problem with getting the buses. They are may not show up to take you the rest of the way home. So not only is the NCC a problem, so is the city of Ottawa.