In a letter to Mayor Mark Sutcliffe and council, the leaders of three local business associations have thrown their support behind Lansdowne 2.0, calling it a “trifecta of city building.”
The three-building Carling Executive Centre at 1525, 1545 and 1565 Carling Ave. near Churchill Avenue was put on the block earlier this month and is already generating buzz in the investment community, said Graeme Webster, a partner at Koble Commercial Realty who is marketing the property.
Boeing Canada currently employs 33 people at its office in the World Exchange Plaza. The 8,000-square-foot space serves as headquarters for the global aircraft manufacturing giant’s growing Canadian defence operations.
A spokesperson for CMHC confirmed Friday that two of the three buildings at the Crown corporation’s 700 Montreal Rd. headquarters – Building A, which has a total of 165,933 square feet, and Building B, which covers 56,805 square feet – are no longer occupied.
Group Germain plans to start laying the groundwork next week for construction of a 178-room Alt Hotel that will be attached to the airport terminal, the company’s vice-president of operations, Hugo Germain, told OBJ on Thursday afternoon.