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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.

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.

Local officials in the meetings and conventions sector are cautiously optimistic about the future, even as they’re in the midst of a 2023 post-pandemic bounce in activity.

Deal marks the end of the line as an independent entity for the Gatineau firm that was launched in 2013 under the name Hydropothecary and later became the subject of an award-winning book that chronicled the lives of founders Adam Miron and Sebastien St-Louis.

As a record amount of office space sits vacant in Ottawa’s downtown core, a new study says the capital is well-positioned to turn some of its empty towers into residences.

The Ottawa firm, which specializes in customer survey and data collection software, reported revenues of $23.5 million in the 12-month period ending Dec. 31.

Six-person Ottawa cleantech startup is one of nine companies from around the world that’s taking part in a three-month accelerator program in Oslo, Norway, backed by international investment firm Techstars and Norwegian energy company Equinor.

Several prominent local real estate experts say they expect vacancies to keep rising as businesses rethink their space requirements.

More than half a million square feet of industrial space is in the works at two sites in west Kanata as developers scramble to satisfy demand for warehousing and light-manufacturing facilities in the city’s tightest submarket.