Future of Duke of Somerset uncertain despite settlement
Lauren Mitsuki, Centretown News
The city has been awarded a settlement in a legal battle over Somerset House on Bank and Somerset streets. The fate of the heritage building is still uncertain.Archive 1997-2016
The future of a heritage building on Somerset Street is still unclear, despite a partial settlement between the City of Ottawa and the owner of the building. Lauren Mitsuki, Centretown NewsThe city has been awarded a settlement in a legal battle over Somerset House on Bank and Somerset streets. The fate of the heritage building is still uncertain.
Nearly five months after the Elgin Street parole office was relocated to Bank Street, the federal government is still paying rent on the building with no plans for a new use of the space.
Ottawa be wary.
Ottawa resident John Kruspe remembers the bi-weekly trips to Montreal. He recalls the monotony of preparation, ultimately filing into the car with the rest of his family. Visits to the care facility left Kruspe troubled and depressed. Over the course of four grueling years, he witnessed the deterioration of his mother-in-law.