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Lansdowne Park Redevelopment Project and Costs

Last updated: October 18 2026

The City of Ottawa gives the Lansdowne 2.0 budget as $418.8 million. Lansdowne Park’s first redevelopment ran from 2012 to 2014 and reopened the stadium and the park in 2014.

At a glance: Lansdowne 2.0 costs

Figure Amount Source and date
Total project budget $418.8 million City of Ottawa, final report page; City of Ottawa Q&A (both read October 18 2026); Ontario Construction News, July 23 2026
Originally approved budget $419.1 million (City Q&A). The final report page says the $418.8 million total is a reduction of $279,000 from the original estimate City of Ottawa Q&A; City of Ottawa final report page
What the budget covers The Event Centre and the replacement of the north side stands Ontario Construction News, July 23 2026
Construction contract $312.8 million, EBC Inc. City of Ottawa final report page (bid); Ontario Construction News, July 23 2026 (contract)
Spent to date $59.5 million, 14% of the budget City report as reported by Ontario Construction News, July 23 2026
Paid to EBC to date $31.0 million, 10% of the contract Ontario Construction News, July 23 2026
Contingency drawn $5.2 million of $37.8 million Ontario Construction News, July 23 2026
Parking budget framework $326,000 spent of $19.2 million Ontario Construction News, July 23 2026
Projected new revenues $288.2 million, stated as net present values. The six amounts the Q&A lists add to $288.0 million City of Ottawa Q&A
Net City investment “Approximately $130 million” City of Ottawa Q&A
Air rights sale for the mixed-use development Winning bid of $65 million from Mirabella Development Corporation (preferred proponent), up from an original $39 million estimate (final report page). The Q&A’s revenue list gives $33.9 million from the sale of air rights, as a net present value. The two sources use different measures City of Ottawa final report page; City of Ottawa Q&A
Public art $2 million of the total budget City of Ottawa Q&A and Lansdowne 2.0 page

The City’s main Lansdowne 2.0 page does not state a total budget. 3DownNation rounds the figure to $419 million (August 26 2026).

Lansdowne 2.0: decisions and stages

The City’s final report page refers to an April 2024 Council approval of a design-bid-build delivery model and says its recommendations were for Council’s consideration as part of a phased approval. 3DownNation reported on November 7 2025 that City Council approved Lansdowne 2.0 by a vote of 15 to 10, and gave the cost as $418.8 million.

The City lists three stages:

  • Stage 1, the Event Centre: Q4 2025 to Q3 2028. The City’s Q&A gives preliminary works in December 2025 and construction from Q1 2026 to Q3 2028.
  • Stage 2, the north side stands: Q4 2028 to Q4 2030.
  • Stage 3, mixed-use development and retail: from 2031. The Q&A gives construction of the residential towers as 2031 to 2034.

The City says the Event Centre has 5,850 seats, with 6,600 for hockey and up to 7,000 for concerts, counting standing viewing areas. Ontario Construction News reported that physical site works began in December 2025, and the City’s October 2026 newsletter reports that structural steel installation began in early October 2026. For the project in full, see Lansdowne 2.0. For the group that runs TD Place and its role, see OSEG.

The first redevelopment, 2012 to 2014

  • 2007: CBC News reported that part of the lower south side of Frank Clair Stadium was closed after engineers found stress cracks in support columns and beams, and that the then-mayor said the closure could prompt a review and possible redevelopment of Lansdowne Park.
  • March 2008: the Ottawa REDBLACKS’ history page says the CFL conditionally awarded a franchise to the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG).
  • 2011: CBC News reported that a judge rejected a legal challenge by Friends of Lansdowne Park, ruling that the City acted in good faith and did not break its own rules. CBC gave the redevelopment cost as $300 million.
  • 2012: CTV News Ottawa reported that a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled the redevelopment plan legal. CBC News reported that construction began in 2012.
  • July 9 2014: TD Place’s grand opening ribbon-cutting (CTV News Ottawa). The REDBLACKS played their first home game at TD Place on July 18 2014, against the Toronto Argonauts.
  • August 2014: Ottawa Business Journal reported on July 4 2014, in an article on OSEG’s update to a City committee, that the 18-acre public green space at Lansdowne Park was scheduled to open on August 16.

The City’s Lansdowne 2.0 Q&A describes the initial redevelopment as providing “new $123 million south side stands and renovated arena, as well as 360,000 square feet of new retail space”, and says it was “completely paid for by taxes generated by the commercial/retail development at Lansdowne” and by “eliminating the cost that the City used to spend operating the site”. The Q&A gives no dates for the project. The $300 million figure from CBC and the $123 million figure from the City describe different things, and no source read for this page reconciles them.

For the park’s earlier history, see Lansdowne Park background and history.

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