A Gatineau-based developer that recently made headlines for its plan to build multiple highrises at the site of Ottawa’s former downtown bus terminal wants to construct a mixed-use tower with hundreds of rental apartment units near the Bayshore Shopping Centre.
Brigil recently filed an application with the city for a 30-storey highrise just north of the intersection of Ramsey Crescent and Dumaurier Avenue in the city’s west end. The property, which is currently occupied by a single-storey commercial building, is less than half a kilometre east of the Bayshore mall and just west of the future Pinecrest LRT station.
The developer’s proposal calls for 330 rental apartment suites, including 194 one-bedroom units and 136 two-bedroom apartments. The commercial component would feature three ground-floor units facing Dumaurier Avenue that will cover a total of about 4,700 square feet.
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The proposed development would provide 250 parking spaces, with 240 in a three-storey underground lot and the remaining 10 at ground level.
Planning documents say the property has “a high redevelopment potential” because it’s one of the “closest developable lots” to the Pinecrest station, which is slated to open in 2025 as part of phase two of the Confederation Line.
Brigil is not the only developer looking to construct new apartments in the neighbourhood.
Ivanhoe Cambridge, the owner of Bayshore Shopping Centre, in partnership with KingSett Capital secured the green light from a city committee for its plans to construct a 27-storey tower and a 30-storey highrise immediately west of the mall.
For its part, Brigil is seeking a zoning amendment to permit a building height of 95 metres, which exceeds the limit of 18 metres under current zoning bylaws.
The Gatineau real estate firm has a number of other high-profile projects in the application stage in the National Capital Region.
It made a splash last winter when it announced plans to build more than 1,000 housing units along with office and retail space on the site of Ottawa Central Station on Catherine Street, the city’s former bus terminal.
Weeks later, the company said it had reached a deal to buy the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel and Conference Centre in downtown Gatineau in a bid to revitalize the city’s heritage district and develop the parking lot beside the hotel.
