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Merkley Supply president and CEO Robert Merkley, who has spent more than four decades at the helm of the masonry supplier that bears his family name, will receive the honour during the Best Ottawa Business Awards on Friday, Nov. 29 at The Westin Ottawa.
In an application filed last month, St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts says it needs to raise more revenue to fund work that would address what it calls the building’s “growing heritage infrastructure deficit.”
In a conversation with Mayor Mark Sutcliffe after a breakfast networking event at City Hall, Live Nation Entertainment’s Erik Hoffman said the National Capital Region was “overdue” for a place like the planned 2,000-seat hall.
Colonnade BridgePort CEO Hugh Gorman said Wednesday that interest rates are “trending in the right direction” after the Bank of Canada cut its benchmark rate by half a percentage point to 3.75 per cent.
Colonnade BridgePort’s site-plan application for the development on Scott Street near Island Park Drive says the proposed building would include 244 dwelling units and 91 underground parking spaces.