Ottawa

Bank Street BIA will be rebranding and taking on a new identity next week, according to executive director Christine Leadman. 

After half a century in business and over three decades in Kitchissippi, Herb & Spice Shop on Wellington Street West has served its last customer. 

In the downtown core, the summer season is off to a slow and steady start following a soft spring, according to local business owners.

Solace says it expects to hire up to 150 new employees over the next two years after landing $10 million in federal funding to expand its software platform.

Ottawa-based Solink has raised US$60 million in fresh venture capital as it sets its long-term sights on going public amid massive growth.

Brigil is adding to its growing pipeline of mixed-use development proposals in Ottawa with a plan to build two highrises comprising nearly 600 apartments on Richmond Road.

The ongoing dispute over a proposed highrise at the corner of Wellington Street West and Parkdale Avenue will continue this summer. 

Turnstone Biologics, an Ottawa-born biotech startup that landed more than $170 million in venture capital, is going public on the Nasdaq exchange.

Lily Bond is spicing up even more customers’ kitchens with her homemade seasoning blends after inking a deal with Farm Boy – the first contract with a retail chain for the 19-year-old.

Ottawa’s industrial vacancy rate more than doubled in the second quarter compared with a year earlier as some tenants began moving into newer buildings with smaller footprints, Avison Young says in its latest market report.