Don Wilcox, Property Biz Canada
Artist's rendering of the Ottawa-Gatineau Zibi site. (Image courtesy of Theia Partnership)
Summary
It will take a decade to build-out Ottawa and Gatineau’s massive mixed-use Zibi site, but its developers are already building a live-work-play downtown community.
With Phase 1 under construction, Zibi president Jeff Westeinde says there will be homes, retail/professionals, entertainment, offices, public spaces and hotels in place on the 37-acre property within a couple of years.
“Phase 1 is much more than just condos,” he told RENX. “What you’ll see in Quebec and in Ontario is, we want to create a ‘there there’.
“Even in the near term, next spring there will be people living here, people eating here, people shopping here and people working here (Ontario) and in Quebec.”
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