The National Capital Commission is not renovating Place du Portage for office workers.

Place du Portage 111 targeted for major renovations. Link2Build. Aprl 29, 2020. "The NCC is considering plans to significantly renovate a major federal government office complex in Gatineau. The Place du Portage 111 office complex houses approximately 4,800 civil servants from Ottawa and Gatineau-most working with Public Services and Procurement Canada...Phase 1 includes replacing the building envelope and rehabilitating the base building. The proposal also calls for redesigning the public realm along the south face of the building. Phase 2 involves a complete redesign of the public realm on the north side of the building and the improvement of the east-west connections through demolition of the Place d'Accueil Complex."

1.) Thousands of Place du Portage 111 employees have already vacated the complex because it is being privatized, in my opinion: "Nearly 2,500 public servants to be moved for Portage 111 renovations." CBC News, September 5, 2018. "Approximately 2,460 of 4,500 employees who work at Portage 111 will be moved between October and June 2019, according to an email from a Public Services and Procurement Canada spokesperson. The department said they will be in temporary offices until 2025."

2.)  A statement from PWGSC in October of 2020: "Much of the government-owned Ottawa-Gatineau portfolio is obsolete....There is room for the private sector to create new space."

3.)   Government properties have been converted into apartments:  Constitution Building, 305 Rideau Street, Ottawa.   Former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Headquarters, Jarvis and Mutual Streets, Toronto.   A former CBC warehouse, 90 Sumach Street, Toronto.

4.)  Employment "hubs" are being created throughout the region. "Federal government opens alternative work hubs for public servants." Ottawa Citizen, June 3, 2019."The federal government announced Monday that it will be providing federal public servants with 385 work spaces across five sites in the National Capital Region. The pilot project, called GCcoworking, is being spearheaded by Public Services and Procurement Canada and seeks to provide federal government employees with flexible workplaces separate from their regular offices or homes." The locations are:  480 boulevard de la Cite, Gatineau;   L'Esplanade Laurier;  335 River Road;  Place d"Orleans;   555 Legget Drive, Kanata.   

5.)  Within a few years PWGSC will no longer exist. Phase 111 will then become vacant.