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Elgin Street office building to be converted into residential units (ottawa.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by veeesix to c/ottawa

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An Elgin Street apartment [sic] building is slated to be converted into a residential building, as Ottawa's downtown core continues its makeover coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Colliers International senior managing director Warren Wilkinson says 200 Elgin Street joins 360 Laurier Avenue and 130 Slater Street as buildings being converted into housing.

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[–] bionicjoey 6 points 11 months ago

This will be an interesting conversion if it works. Office to residential conversions are often infeasible because office buildings have very different regulations governing things like plumbing, airflow, and most importantly, natural light. Looking at this building from the pictures in the article, it looks like it's got a slightly smaller footprint compared to many office buildings. So it might just be possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Downtown needs the extra life. This is great news.

[–] BedSharkPal 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, but I thought the answer was killing WFH? /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My client hid the last couple of lines, so your response looked like

Wait, but I thought the answer was killing

that would make downtown more interesting...

[–] BedSharkPal 1 points 10 months ago

I mean now that I think about it, there seemed to be a lot more stabbings pre COVID?