Dave is OBJ's senior features writer with two decades of experience in the newspaper industry working for a variety of publications from community weeklies to major dailies. He is a four-time award-winning journalist by the Alliance of Area Business Publishers (AABP). He has received awards for best news feature, best scoop and best overall writer among medium-sized business publications.
Ian Faris, who served as president and CEO of the Ottawa Board of Trade from 2013-19, has joined Maple Leaf Strategies as a strategic adviser in the firm’s Ottawa office.
The National Capital Region’s real estate investment market is seeing “a lot of activity” even as securing capital still remains “challenging” for some buyers, a leading Ottawa broker said this week.
A B.C.-based developer wants to add to the growing stock of multi-residential housing in Ottawa’s far west end with a proposed six-storey apartment building near the Canadian Tire Centre.
A portion of one of the east end’s largest office complexes could be added to a list of federal government properties earmarked for potential conversion into housing.