Breaking: Major disagreement puts new Senators arena on hold and team's future in doubt

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Breaking: Major disagreement puts new Senators arena on hold and team's future in doubt
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The plan to move the Ottawa Senators downtown into a new arena at Lebreton Flats now appears to be on the ice. 

On Thursday, the National Capital Commission board of directors received an update on the plan to redevelop the land. At the meeting, NCC CEO Mark Kristmanson said the "RendezVous Lebreton partners, which include Capital Sports Management Inc. and Trinity Development Group Inc., advised the NCC they had not been able to resolve their internal partnership issues."


The NCC received notification from RendezVous on Nov. 8 that the partners — the Senators and Trinity Developments — apparently have some disagreements.


At the meeting, Mayor Jim Watson called this latest development 'disappointing.' He has indicated to staff in city planning to pause the rezoning process until January.

Last January, the NCC announced it had reached an agreement in principle with RendezVous, who was looking to build an 18,000-seat NHL arena surrounded by a mixed-use community of multi-residential and commercial building. A Sensplex and an abilities centre are also included in RendezVous’s plans.

"I have more confidence today than ever," Senators owner Eugene Melnyk had said after a meeting with Trinity Group CEO John Ruddy and top city officials, including Mayor Jim Watson back in August . "I'm very confident that this is going to go forward."

Now there seems to be no confidence left at all...

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