David Sali

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.

The owners of the Marriott Ottawa hotel said Tuesday the 489-room property – which opened in 1971 and last underwent significant renovations 15 years ago – is about to receive a “sweeping overhaul,” with work slated to begin immediately.

InterRent eyes 2025 completion for Laurier Avenue office-to-residential conversion project

InterRent REIT says construction of 139 rental apartment units and 1,736 square feet of ground-floor commercial space in the Narono Building at 360 Laurier Ave. W. is “well underway.”

Why this Ottawa-based adviser thinks 2025 will be a ‘really strong year’ for M&A activity

Encouraged by the recent surge in activity, Ed Bryant believes the Canadian M&A scene is poised for a major revival thanks to a series of macroeconomic and geopolitical shifts.

Markham’s Sienna Senior Living acquiring Stittsville retirement home for $48M

A southern Ontario company is acquiring a retirement home in Ottawa’s west end for $48 million in...

Fieldless Farms harvesting investor support in $1.1M equity crowdfunding campaign

Jon Lomow, the co-founder and president of Ottawa-based Fieldless Farms, hopes to raise more than $1 million for his company through equity crowdfunding platform FrontFundr.

‘A born leader’: Ottawa business and community builder Sol Shinder dies at 90

Sol Shinder’s status as a giant of Ottawa business was already secure when his younger brother Lionel’s...

La Cité adding two new degree programs in business

College La Cité announced Tuesday it will begin offering a three-year bachelor of commerce degree program and a four-year specialized bachelor of commerce – management degree program.

Higher hopes: Creative Dev raises proposed Montreal Road rental complex to 21 storeys

In a revised planning application recently filed with the city, Creative Dev Ventures says it wants to build a 21-storey residential highrise at 1815 Montreal Rd., a few hundred metres east of Blair Road and about a kilometre north of the Gloucester Centre.