Ottawa's Built Heritage Sub-Committee is set to discuss heritage designation for a 70-year-old industrial building in Mechanicsville at its meeting next week.
The property at 7 Bayview Rd. — also known as Municipal Works Building No. 4 — is an early 1940s example of an industrial building influenced by the “modern style,” according to a city staff report to the Sub-Committee that recommends designating the structure as heritage.
The move has been expected for months. The Bayview building is included in the first phase of a planned Innovation Centre that was approved by the last term of Ottawa City Council with the expectation that the building would be protected as a heritage site. The first phase of the plan is scheduled to cost $30 million. The province committed half the money last year; the city will provide the remainder, including the property, which is assessed at $8 million.
The meeting will take place at City Hall next Thursday at 9 a.m. (a half-hour earlier than usual).