The Dow's Lake area was rezoned to permit high-density residential.

At one time the property was a major venue for the Tulip Festival:

House of Commons Ottawa April 10, 1974 Mr. Haliburton (Progressive Conservative): How many tulip bulbs are purchased each year for Ottawa? How many years are the bulbs re-used? When the bulbs are disposed of, are they sold by public tender or destroyed and, if destroyed what is the manner of doing so, what is the cost?

Hon. Ron Basford (Minister of State for Urban Affairs) Liberal: ".I am informed by the National Capital Commission as follows: 250,000 tulip bulbs are purchased each year by the NCC. The number varies depending upon which floral display areas are replanted. There are four major priority floral display areas, they are Dow's Lake, Parliament Hill, 24 Sussex Drive and Rideau Hall. The beds are normally planted every second year. If the first year display is poor they will be replaced the next fall, conversely if the second year display is particularly good they will be kept a third year."

"The other floral displays are replanted when necessary every three or four years. The tulip bulbs are heeled in after they are removed in the spring, sorted during the summer and the flower size bulbs are replanted in the fall in the secondary floral display areas such as the borders along the Driveway system. The remaining bulbs, which are too small to produce a flower are buried. (The cost) is approximately $250."

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The Dow's Lake parking lot will be the focus of a residential redevelopment. "City files application for new Civic Hospital land."

APPLICATION #D01 ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT 930 Carling Avenue, 520 Preston Street-Official Plan Amendment-No Appeal. adopted July 16, 2018.

"According to the proposed rezoning map, the maximum height for a building in the middle of the hospital land will be about 10 storeys. Closer to the train station the Preston-Carling Secondary Plan would kick in. The maximum heights in that plan allow for 20 storeys southwest of the station. The rezoning application also includes the parking lot northwest of the Dow's Lake pavilion. The land would change from an open space and park to a mixed-use centre." Ottawa Citizen article by Jon Willing, August 18,2017.

"FEDCO has approved my motion, moved by Coun. Dudas, to slightly alter the ward boundary between Capital and River Wards, by moving the Dow's Lake pavilion parking lot into River Ward, to ensure the entire Ottawa Hospital project is in one ward." Councillor Riley Brockington, December 1, 2020.

 Many buildings on the Farm are facing demolition: "Coun. Riley Brockington has been trying to lock in lease conditions that would preserve as many buildings as possible, such as the Dominion Observatory." ("Feds say they'll pay $11.8 million to clean up new Civic site" by Dave Reevely, Ottawa Citizen February 23, 2018.) But the South Azimuth is interfering with the widening of Maple Drive. And the Civic Hospital does not want irregular parcels of land---Functional Operational Hospital Interests - Parcel shape-An irregular parcel shape "would require fundamental modifications." (NCC Federal Site Review...page 45/256.)

 Land reserved for a hospital is classified as Institutional. The 12-acre mixed-use area "identifies locations within the city to focus new growth into compact and mixed use developments." 

The Dominion Observatory Campus is in the upper left hand corner and the William Saunders Building is below the DARA Tennis Club and Historic Hedge Collection.