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In its 2024 Canadian market outlook released this week, CBRE predicts Ottawa’s overall office vacancy rate will hit 14.1 per cent before the end of the year, up from 13.3 per cent in December 2023.
Colonnade BridgePort chief executive Hugh Gorman says the company has “five to 10 years’ worth” of multi-residential development projects in its pipeline and hopes to get a few of them off the ground later this year or early in 2025.
Smart Living Properties plans to construct a nine-storey building with 421 rental apartments at 112 and 134 Nelson St., just north of Rideau Street and a block east of King Edward Avenue.