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.
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Average home prices in Ottawa will not revert to pre-pandemic levels this year: CMHC

The federal housing agency is predicting that home prices in the capital will come in at an average of $640,000 on the low end and $700,000 on the high end in 2023.

Fullscript adds veteran U.S. health-care exec to C-suite in bid to fuel growth

Ottawa health-care technology firm beat its revenue forecasts by more than 10 per cent in the first three months of 2023 and is on pace to exceed its goal of 20 per cent year-over-year revenue growth.

‘Fate of the country hangs’ on reimagining downtowns, experts tell City Building Summit

Urban planning experts told the sellout crowd of 260 at the Shaw Centre that downtown merchants can no longer rely on a steady flow of office employees to drive sales.

Colonnade BridgePort taps real estate veteran Andrew Blair to head fund management business

In his new role, the Ottawa native will be in charge of securing partnership deals with the kind of deep-pocketed backers – including high-net-worth individuals, family offices and institutional investors – that can help fund Colonnade BridgePort’s next wave of multi-residential and industrial development proposals.

Virica Biotech’s viral vector-boosting technology gets $790K shot in the arm

While about three-quarters of Virica’s 50 customers are gene therapy producers, founder and CEO Jean-Simon Diallo says his firm’s technology also accelerates the production of vaccines.

Ottawa faces ‘multi-whammy’ of challenges as it looks to reimagine its downtown, urban expert says

This week’s public-service job walkout adds to the list of challenges Ottawa faces as its economy tries to rebound from the pandemic and it looks to reimagine city space, a prominent urban planning expert says.

Demand for rental units pushes Ottawa housing starts to all-time high in 2022: CMHC

Builders in Ottawa launched 11,032 new housing units last year, an eight per cent increase from 2021, the national housing agency says in its latest Housing Supply Report released Wednesday.

Ottawa developer proposes nine-storey housing complex for Lowertown site

The proposed structure – which is located north of Rideau Street about 700 metres from the Rideau LRT station and less than 200 metres from several bus stops – would have one level of underground parking with space for 40 cars and 482 bicycles. 

Ericsson Canada to grow Kanata workforce as part of $470M partnership with feds

The project is supposed to create and provide training for hundreds of jobs in Kanata and Montreal, while establishing Canada as one of Ericsson's global research and development hubs.

Taggart Group floats plan to replace historic Kent Street office building with 30-storey tower

Ottawa-based real estate company says it does not intend to redevelop the property, which it purchased about a dozen years ago, for at least another decade.
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