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After 14 years of planning and pondering, the Ottawa Hospital’s new Civic campus is finally moving closer to reality. Well, OK, it’s still an estimated seven years from completion, but the long overdue update the hospital released Tuesday still marks a rapid acceleration from the languid pace of the past.
It wasn’t entirely apparent from CEO Cameron Love’s presentation, but the past year has contained almost all of the meaningful progress the hospital has made on its expansion plan. Just a year ago, it had a rough drawing of a building that looked like a doughnut with two bites out of it. Love calls that version “very much a preliminary concept.”