The cleared site is approximately 66 acres in size, and sits just west of the Wellington's palaces of culture and politics. Since the site was levelled in the 1960's, many proposals have been pursued for its redevelopment, including schemes for federal offices, housing, and recreational spaces, none of which have found fruition. Much of the site remains vacant, with the exception of a parkway which bisects the northern end of the site, the bike path, the bus transitway, the 1870's municipal waterworks and its aqueducts (which survived the fire of 1900), the Thompson-Perkins Mill, and various roads serving the previously existing neighbourhood. Cleared of any visible markers of its history, the Lebreton Flats in Ottawa are a byproduct of modernist city planning, a barren landscape of flat indecisive lawn upon which any dream might efficiently be projected, but none seem ideal. Barely concealed beneath the surface, sewage systems, electrical lines and multiple layers of architectural remnants mark out the memory of what came before, ghost marks of its history.