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Ottawa’s Iridian Spectral Technologies poised to expand after being acquired by U.S. firm

Producer of optical filters plans to expand its 43,000-square-foot manufacturing facility near Hunt Club Road to about 60,000 square feet before the end of the year.

Is there room enough in Ottawa for both the Mayfair and the ByTowne?

In Ottawa, the Mayfair Theatre and the ByTowne Cinema have co-existed in the market for decades. But in the aftermath of the pandemic and with changes in the industry, can it continue?

Local investors support new wellness and social club at former Canadian Tire on Carling

Altea Active, which signed its lease with RioCan REIT last week, will take possession of the old Canadian Tire retail store on Carling Avenue in August.

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.

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.

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.

Uncertainty clouds the outlook for meetings and conventions business, officials agree

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.

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