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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Ottawa hotel occupancy rose more than 50% in 2022, report says

‘I have products, I have market’: Versaterm CEO bullish as firm’s acquisition spree continues

Ottawa company that makes software that helps police forces, fire departments and other public safety agencies manage their operations announced Thursday it reached an agreement to acquire fellow software firm CI Technologies.

Toronto’s Nexus Industrial REIT acquires new Ford distribution centre in Casselman for $117M

Located just south of Hwy. 417 about 56 kilometres southeast of Ottawa, the facility is slated to open this spring and will serve as a parts distribution warehouse for Ford Motor Co., which has a 15-year lease on the property.

Trellis’s e-commerce merchandising platform shines on big stage in Vegas

Ottawa-based software firm -- which now serves about 300 merchants who sell their wares on Amazon and Walmart’s e-commerce sites -- made a big splash this week at the Prosper Show on Sin City's famous strip.

Ottawa Airport plans to terminate operating licence for ground-services provider to Flair, Sunwing

In a news release on Wednesday, the airport authority said that in recent weeks it has “observed a degradation of service levels associated with ground-handling activities” provided to Flair and Sunwing by U.K.-based firm Menzies Aviation.

Ottawa-Gatineau’s annual rate of housing starts up 725% in February: CMHC

Ottawa-Gatineau’s annual pace of housing starts jumped a whopping 725 per cent in February, the Canada Mortgage...

Familiar government buildings in downtown core would be better off demolished, industry insiders say

Building owners, property managers and other Ottawa commercial real estate insiders itching to get a sense of which assets the federal government plans to offload from its downtown office portfolio in the wake of COVID-19 will have to wait a little longer.

Nearly 300 Ottawa office buildings could be candidates for ‘adaptive reuse,’ new study says

Real estate firm Avison Young says 286 properties in the nation’s capital meet two key criteria that may make them suitable to be turned into rental apartments or other forms of housing.

No ‘immediate exposure risks’ to portfolio in wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, Mistral Venture Partners says

One of Ottawa’s biggest venture capital firms said Monday it “has managed to resolve all immediate exposure risks” for the eight companies in its portfolio that have relationships with Silicon Valley Bank.

Ottawa REITs see big jump in rental occupancy rates – but expenses are rising too

In financial filings this week, InterRent REIT and Minto Apartment REIT both reported big jumps in revenues compared with a year earlier – although headwinds such as rising interest rates have boosted the cost of financing their holdings and eaten into their bottom lines.
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