An Ottawa firm plans to build a new Holiday Inn near a growing cluster of industrial parks and fulfilment centres in the city’s southwest end.
An Ottawa firm plans to build a new hotel near a growing cluster of industrial parks and fulfilment centres in the city’s southwest end.
Troms Holdings Corp. recently filed a proposal to construct a four-storey, 88-suite Holiday Inn on a 1.2-acre parcel of land at 140 Lusk St. in Nepean. The application says the new hotel will include 108 parking spaces.
The site is less than a kilometre north of Amazon’s 2.8-million-square-foot fulfilment centre and the Gateway Industrial Park, a planned four-building project on a 50-acre site near the intersection of Strandherd and Citigate drives in Barrhaven.
The Lusk Street property is adjacent to another lodging, the Hampton Inn and Suites Ottawa West, which opened two and a half years ago.
The proposal comes as Barrhaven business leaders step up their efforts to reimagine the area as more than a bedroom community.
Last year, all three levels of government committed funding to help create a downtown district that would be the “beating heart” of the suburb of 100,000 people, Barrhaven BIA executive director Andrea Steenbakkers recently told OBJ.
The initiative would include a new civic building, performing arts centre, library, outdoor plaza, shops and residential apartments.
“We’re really focusing on adding that place-making vibrancy so that people realize that we’re no longer the sleepy suburb anymore,” Steenbakkers said. 
