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The rebuilding of a stretch of Gladstone Avenue this fall will include the installation of a new, state-of-the-art “soil cell system” along the street to help keep newly planted trees alive in Centretown’s urban jungle.
Standing at the corner of Preston and Somerset streets, there’s not much to see but a vacant lot adorned with white and violet petunias. This empty space houses a big dream for Can Le, president of the Vietnamese Federation in Ottawa, who hopes the lot will become a museum recounting the painful but moving story of the Vietnamese Boat People.
Chinatown has a new look thanks to a series of murals put up over the summer.
Michelle Kwan, Centretown NewsLocal artist Dominique Boisvenue used spray paint for her mural near Somerset and Percy streets.
National Capital Commission officials are hinting that residential development in their LeBreton Flats project will be built with greater density than previously planned, a revamping of the scale of the planned neighbourhood that could prove controversial.
Veronika Gorlova, Centretown NewsThe NCC is considering revamping the scale of the planned neighbourhood at its LeBreton Flats project site.