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InterRent REIT posts gains in key financial metrics as occupancy rate hits ‘optimal’ 97%

InterRent REIT reported gains in most key financial metrics in the fourth quarter of 2023 as the...

Ottawa’s downtown office vacancy rate to hit 15% in 2024, CBRE predicts

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.

Savour the City: YOW-za! Top picks for food and drink at the Ottawa International Airport

When you think of airport food, dry tuna sandwiches at soaring prices might spring to mind. Not so at YOW — at least, not anymore," writes Yvonne Langen in this instalment of Savour the City.

Merger by design: Montreal firm Provencher_Roy acquires Ottawa’s GRC Architects

Montreal-based architecture firm Provencher_Roy has acquired Ottawa’s GRC Architects in a move that will create one of...

Courtyard Restaurant calls it quits after more than 40 years in the ByWard Market

The historic Courtyard Restaurant in the ByWard Market has announced it will be serving supper for the last time tonight. 

Colonnade BridgePort targets 2025 start for Pickering Place, Scott Street projects

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.

Porter to offer direct route from YOW to St. John’s starting in June

Porter Airlines announced in a press release Tuesday that it is launching a new route between Ottawa and St. John’s, N.L. in June.

City committee to consider Smart Living’s nine-storey Nelson Street proposal

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.

Local staple Wallack’s opts to stay in Centretown and bets on Bank St. – again

When Wallack’s Art Supplies and Framing realized it needed to find a new space after nearly half...

Lynx Air shuts down three months ahead of scheduled expansion into Ottawa

Travellers hoping to take a discount flight to or from Ottawa will have fewer options as low-cost airline Lynx Air announced a sudden halt to its operations yesterday.
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