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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
It would probably be better for Ottawa if the Sens were bought/moved to QC and then eventually the Canes were moved to a new rink in Ottawa.
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The plan is to build a new arena in the LeBreton Flats area in downtown Ottawa and construction is slated to begin sometime in 2019.
Construction could begin as soon as 2019 on a massive downtown development centred on a new NHL arena for the Ottawa Senators, after the hockey club and its partners reached an agreement in principle with the federal government.
Thursday's announcement by the National Capital Commission, which manages federal lands and events in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, was the result of nearly two years of behind-the-scenes negotiations that appeared to be unravelling as recently as a few weeks ago.
The plan involves a 21-hectare site in downtown Ottawa called LeBreton Flats that has sat mostly vacant for decades. The area, about two kilometres west of Parliament Hill, has been an empty field since the 1960s, when the federal government expropriated an entire neighbourhood of industrial properties and row houses.
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