Bank Street (French: Rue Bank ) is the major commercial north–south street in Ottawa , Ontario , Canada. It runs south from Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa , south through the neighbourhoods of Centretown , The Glebe , Old Ottawa South , Alta Vista , Hunt Club , and then through the villages of Blossom Park , Leitrim , South Gloucester , Greely , Metcalfe , Spring Hill , and Vernon before ending at the city limit at Belmeade Road, becoming Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry county highway 31.
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57-882: The Queensway to Holmwood Avenue. Bank Street is home to Lansdowne Park where the Ottawa 67's and Ottawa RedBlacks play. Even further south, after the road passes over the Rideau Canal on the Bank Street Bridge , Bank Street is home to the Billings Bridge Plaza and eventually, the South Keys Shopping Centre . Bank Street north of Billings Bridge is an historic urban arterial road, often with many more pedestrians than vehicular traffic and significant parking issues, hence
76-480: The Rideau Canal . South Keys Shopping Centre South Keys Shopping Centre , officially SmartCentres Ottawa South , is a shopping centre in the South Keys neighbourhood of Ottawa , Ontario, Canada. It is owned and operated by SmartCentres . The power centre is built on 56 acres of land with 486,127 square feet of store space. Walmart serves as the mall's anchor . Eight separate buildings house
95-535: The 19th century, whereas the bank was founded in 1934. It's believed that the road was named this because it originally went from the "bank" of the Ottawa River at its northern end to that of the Rideau River to the south. However, the road was originally called Esther Street in honour of Colonel By 's wife. Bank Street officially ends at Wellington Street and the portion of the street running closest to
114-611: The Bank Street Promenade) is considered the centre of Ottawa's burgeoning gay village , characterized by a small concentration of businesses targeted to Ottawa's LGBT community. In 2011, the city officially unveiled signs identifying the neighbourhood as Ottawa's gay village, at the intersections of Somerset, James and Nepean Streets with Bank Street. Travelling south, there exists a shopping district in The Glebe running exclusively along Bank Street from approximately
133-515: The Trillium Line and the new Airport Link in 2023. The shopping centre has been the location of several minor and major crimes. At around 9:00 a.m. on July 28, 2013, the body of a deceased female was found in the ditch between the Kelsey's parking lot and Bank Street. The following day, she was identified as 28-year-old Melissa Richmond, who had been missing for the previous two weeks. It
152-589: The actual riverbank is federal Crown land for the Parliamentary Precinct of the Parliament of Canada . South of the Rideau River the road was previously named "Prescott Road". Highway 31 was formed in 1927, and started at the junction of Highway 2 in Morrisburg, Ontario . It travelled north through the town of Winchester , and eventually into Ottawa. The road was paved in stages, but
171-457: The centre's 20 stores and services which include supermarkets, restaurants, banks, and a movie theatre. South Keys Shopping Centre was first opened in 1996. The property is bound by Johnston Road to the north, Bank Street to the east, Dazé Street to the south, and the Transitway to the west. SmartCentres notes that there are 50,638 households comprising 71,374 people within a 5km radius of
190-429: The community of Vernon. Recently, just south of Leitrim Road, Bank Street gives access to a developing neighborhood called Findlay Creek that will become quite significant in the long term, and it will also provide access (after secondary roads are extended) to the community of Riverside South . Bank Street also serves in some contexts as an unofficial division between "eastern" and "western" Ottawa. For example, prior to
209-401: The flow is generally quite slow. South of Billings Bridge to Leitrim Road , the street turns into a more modern four-lane (or five-lane) urban arterial, which flows much better despite the 50 km/h (30 mph) speed limit on the northern half and 60 km/h (about 40 mph) from South Keys southward. South of Leitrim it is a rural two-lane highway with an 80 km/h speed limit until
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#1732766041573228-562: The shopping centre. The average household income within this radius is CA$ 113,539 . OC Transpo 's Transitway runs north-south along the back of the shopping centre with Greenboro station serving the mall's north end and South Keys station serving the south end. Greenboro station also features a park and ride and access to the Trillium Line . Stage 2 of the O-Train expansion project will see South Keys station connected with
247-563: The takeover of Maclean-Hunter by Rogers Cable in 1994, the street marked the division between those cable companies' service areas in Ottawa: cable subscribers west of Bank Street were served by Maclean-Hunter, while cable subscribers east of Bank Street were served by Rogers. Contrary to popular belief, the street is not named after the Bank of Canada headquarters at the corner of Bank Street and Wellington Street. The street name dates back to
266-549: The title Bank Street . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bank_Street&oldid=821191628 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bank Street (Ottawa) Bank Street made up much of Highway 31 before it
285-511: Was Ottawa's seventh homicide of the year. On November 26, 2015, her husband, 53-year-old Howard Richmond, was found guilty of first degree murder . At around 6:30 p.m. on November 23, 2018, a 27-year-old man, Yonis Barkhadle, one of three brothers who were well known to police in the city, was fatally shot in the parking lot at the north end of the mall. Since 2015, the City of Ottawa has been considering redeveloping South Keys Shopping Centre into
304-481: Was also re-aligned along the Winchester Bypass, when it was completed and opened in 1974, but no other changes were made to the road since then, until being fully decommissioned as a provincial highway, in 1998. Portions of Bank Street have undergone major reconstruction each year since 2006. The City of Ottawa held public consultations for a major redevelopment of Bank Street between Wellington Street and
323-489: Was downloaded in 1998 (all of it south of Heron Road ). Currently it is also known as Ottawa Road #31 . Between Wellington Street and Gladstone Avenue in downtown, Bank Street is a shopping and business development district officially known as the "Bank Street Promenade" and the street is lined with common signage affixed to streetlights and street-level advertising billboards showing this distinction. The area between Somerset Street West and Gladstone Avenue (within
342-499: Was fully paved by 1936. The road's designation of Highway 31 was extended from the Dundas-Stormont-Glengary/Russell-Prescott county line into Ottawa later that same year. While maintaining its alignment along Bank Street for its entire history, the road was re-aligned along Canal Drive (now today's Queen Elizabeth Driveway). From here, it became less clear where the northern terminus of the road
361-517: Was located, as Ottawa posted Highway 31 as a scenic route within its limits along Heron Road and Bronson Avenue ( concurrent with Highway 16 ) before terminating in downtown, while the Ministry of Transportation noted no changes in road length (78 km / 48.8 mi). This is presumed to be a connecting link between Highway 31 and The Queensway ( Highway 417 ), but these scenic routes /connecting links were all decommissioned by 1960. The road
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