Hill reno update: House BOIE approves design for main entrance to new welcome centre complex

As of January, $185-million of the $761-million approved for the first five years of work on the Centre Block building and construction of the underground welcome centre, up to 2021-22, has been spent.

A look at the excavation site that nows sits in the shadow of the Centre Block building, right, where digging is underway for construction of the last phase of the new underground welcome centre complex, as pictured Dec. 2, 2020. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

March 3, 2021

Plans for renovations to Parliament Hill are inching ahead with the House of Commons’ recent approval of a design for the entrance to the new, underground visitors’ welcome centre complex being built in the shadow of the Centre Block building. Plus, a recent update from Deputy House Speaker and...

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