{"id":166807,"date":"2026-08-13T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/166807\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:07:10","slug":"ottawa-senators-ncc-confident-lebreton-land-deal-will-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/166807\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators, NCC confident LeBreton land deal will close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The Senators and the National Capital Commission \u201cremain confident\u201d that the team\u2019s purchase of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/05\/finalization-of-senators-ncc-deal-for-lebreton-flats-not-imminent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/05\/finalization-of-senators-ncc-deal-for-lebreton-flats-not-imminent\/\">11 acres at LeBreton Flats<\/a> last year to build a new home for the club \u201cwill be completed in the coming months, allowing work on the site to begin in earnest,\u201d according to Bruce Garrioch of the OTTAWA CITIZEN. Senators President Cyril Leeder said that the project \u201ccontinues to move forward.\u201d Garrioch noted Senators owner Michael Andlauer and his partners have agreed to pay $37M for the 11 acres. Leeder confirmed that the Senators \u201cdo have the option to buy four more acres, but they haven\u2019t determined whether that will be the case yet.\u201d There is \u201ca lot of heavy lifting taking place,\u201d and Leeder predicted that there will be \u201cat least another five months of work on planning, which includes decontaminating the site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/27\/senators-algonquin-anishinabe-nation-near-lebreton-flats-arena-partnership-framework\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/27\/senators-algonquin-anishinabe-nation-near-lebreton-flats-arena-partnership-framework\/\">working with Indigenous groups,<\/a> designing the site and financing.\u201d Garrioch wrote all these need to be dealt with before the Senators can \u201cconfirm a timeline for putting shovels in the ground.\u201d The Senators are also in \u201cregular discussions with the City of Ottawa because this is an urban development that will require planning for roadways and infrastructure\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/ottawa-senators\/one-year-lebreton-deal-arena-project-progress \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/ottawa-senators\/one-year-lebreton-deal-arena-project-progress \">OTTAWA CITIZEN, 8\/10<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">CHANGE STARTS NOW: In Ottawa, Callum Fraser wrote the organization \u201cmust continue to make the necessary upgrades to the arena that will likely host the hockey club into the 2030s.\u201d Leeder unveiled that the \u201centirety of the arena\u2019s 200-level has brand new seats, and work is underway to give Bert\u2019s Bar a \u2018facelift,\u2019\u201d including a \u201cnew name to be announced.\u201d Leeder said, \u201cIt\u2019s our most ambitious off-season plan that we\u2019ve ever had.\u201d With the PWHL\u2019s Ottawa Charge moving to CTC this fall, \u201crenovations are also happening in the bowels of the arena\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/ottawa-senators\/senators-gm-steve-staios-im-certainly-not-done-making-improvements \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/ottawa-senators\/senators-gm-steve-staios-im-certainly-not-done-making-improvements \">OTTAWA CITIZEN, 8\/13<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senators and the National Capital Commission \u201cremain confident\u201d that the team\u2019s purchase of 11 acres at LeBreton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[37889,268,2836,271,61],"class_list":["post-166807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-deals","tag-hockey","tag-leadership","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}