SENATORS READY TO GO FORWARD WITH DEVELOPMENT NEAR ARENA

          The Corel Centre "is close to finalizing plans for a
     'quality, name' hotel" to be built on site near the
     facility, "with construction set to begin soon after the
     completion of three high-tech office towers adjacent to the
     hockey arena," according to Warren & Pappone of the OTTAWA
     CITIZEN.  Senators President Roy Mlakar: "We're close, we
     want to get it done and it's a priority."  While the
     Senators have assembled a "target group" of developers for
     the project, Mlakar "would not reveal any financial details
     of the hotel plan."  Mlakar: "Our priority is to get someone
     in here of quality and we're zooming in on the hotel next,
     any type of hotel on our property would only enhance
     everything that we're doing."  Mlakar said that the towers
     are scheduled to be completed "sometime in mid-2002" with
     the hotel construction to follow (OTTAWA CITIZEN, 10/19).