Deschâtelets building renewal among Ottawa school projects getting provincial funding
Posted Oct 26, 2020 05:18:00 PM.
The provincial government is putting another $30-million into school projects in Ottawa.
Ottawa's French Catholic school board is getting $5.7-million to purchase the Deschâtelets building, in Old Ottawa East. It will be the site of the new École élémentaire Catholique au coeur d’Ottawa.
“We're going to see a great project here with new gymnasium facilities, new school and a community centre, all partnering together to realize what we've been working towards, which is the repurposing of that building,” says Capital Ward City Councillor Shawn Menard.
Meanwhile, the Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB) received $25-million to fund two new elementary schools in Fernbank (Kanata/Stittsville area) and Barrhaven South.
This funding represents over a thousand new pupil spaces and will provide for close to eighty more licenced childcare spots between the two new schools.
The new Barrhaven South Catholic Elementary School will be located in South Nepean in the northern portion of the Half Moon Bay Community, at a site to be purchased.
The two new OCSB schools are scheduled to open in September 2023.
These announcements are part of the goverment's $550-million accelerated funding plan, which will see 20 new schools built in the province and 8 permanent additions to existing facilities.
