[J.OT13]

The island needs another attraction besides a seasonal zipline. They also really need to focus on the hotel that's planned (integrating the large ruins). A decent sized boutique hotel with absolutely gobsmackingly epic views of Parliament and the Riverscape would bring a lot of people to the island to support more commercial.

The new regional museum in the old EB Eddy building will help, though that's a CAQ promise, and their promises aren't worth much. Agreed that Board Mill hotel would go a long way in activating the site with hundreds of people every week eager to go out and eat/spend some money on activities. Hope they come up with other ideas to attract people to the site.

They could also focus on events and activation of the space. I remember years ago before Zibi was a thing they used to have events in the old warehouse building which were a hit. Think Canada Day, Winterlude, Bluesfest, etc.

I feel like we lost something since Windmill left the project. They were very good at animating the site.

As I mentioned in one of the other threads, the Aisle24 stores are only really good for snacks and beverages. If you want real food, then you’re still going to have to drive (or walk) to your local grocery store

It’s a nice new development, but they’re definitely going to have to bonify the commercial space on offer. I’m afraid that in the long term, businesses will want to settle at Lebreton Flats and Gatineau, but will avoid the space within Zibi

Aisle24 is no substitution for a grocery store or even a dépanneur, especially with the app based access that limits walk-ins, but at least it's something. I'm sure Zibi eventually become a desirable place for retail as the literal bridge between LeBreton Flats and Hull.

It's really too bad le Vieux Chicago plans to move to the Hull side of Zibi fell through.

 

[HeIsTheOne99]

The island needs another attraction besides a seasonal zipline. They also really need to focus on the hotel that's planned (integrating the large ruins). A decent sized boutique hotel with absolutely gobsmackingly epic views of Parliament and the Riverscape would bring a lot of people to the island to support more commercial.

a hotel in that location might also become very popular with the musicians and bands that perform at Lebreton Flats in the summer months

the issue with Zibi is that it’s stuck between Hull (which already has a decent amount of small businesses, and will be getting a tram in the future) and LeBreton Flats (where big money will be spending big in order to bring in a lot of commercial business into a brand new development. It already has two OTrain stations that will serve the area well). Pretty hard to compete when Zibi is mostly a residential development and their construction progress is going at a snail’s pace, and I suspect that it’ll always struggle relative to its two neighbours

 

[J.OT13]

Though I understand why Portage makes more sense for the tram, it would have been great if it used Chaudière.

Maybe a frequent bus shuttle between the tram and Pimisi could help.

 

[hoggytime]

They need to move Confederation Boulevard to the Chaudiere instead of the Portage and market it heavily. The War Museum, Chaudiere Falls, Adisoke, The Holocaust Memorial, the upcoming Outaouais Museum and Aghanistan War memorial need to be on it.

 

[J.OT13]

Confederation Boulevard already has a few section off the main path, so adding Queen in there (NAC, past a few Government institutions, hopefully something nice at Bronson Park eventually) and then the rest of your path to hit those other landmarks would be great.

I'd say Albert over Queen for vistas of the NAC on one side, and Adisoke on the other, but because it's a one way and doesn't have any monumental Government building in between...

 

[postingaboutottawa]

I don't think any of those "need" to be on the confederation bvld. if they are building out the nodes plan from the last round of NCC docs. Goes through too much residential and albert needs to be function over form.