Ottawa Business Journal

Competition heats up downtown as Morguard launches build

Additional inventory to put downward pressure on rents, observers predict One of the city’s largest landlords is pushing ahead with construction of a 22-storey office

Townhouse starts increase 102% in December

Residential

Ottawa’s housing market saw the number of row housing starts more than double year-over-year in December, while the overall market grew by four per cent.

Housing resales up 13% in December

Residential

Ottawa Real Estate Board members saw a 13-per-cent increase in resales in December, capping a year where annual sales slightly rose. Members sold 699 properties

Opinion: Innovating like Steve Jobs

Techopia

During the last few months, the media has been fixated on the life and legacy of Steve Jobs. Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M.

Construction permits jump 47% in November

Construction

The value of local construction permits was up $82 million, year-over-year, in November, according to municipal records. The city issued 750 permits with a combined

Lowering Lorne

Non-Residential

Stand on the Mackenzie King Bridge, just outside the Rideau Centre, facing west, and one stares directly at what’s supposed to become a $487-million “jewel.”

Opinion: RocketOwl wises up to products game

Techopia

While it’s often hard to tell whether a tech company is a hardware or software business, or a services or products studio, there’s no doubt

Opinion: Select Start Studios grows exponentially by helping clients of clients

Techopia

I recently interviewed the tall, charismatic 30-year old Select Start Studios CEO Tariq Zaid at the company’s cool headquarters in an old stone building fronting

Opinion: Engineering grads pair beauty and smarts

Retail

What can a pair of male University of Waterloo engineering grads possibly know about the rapidly growing market for beauty products, where 98 per cent

Opinion: Rekindling the relevance of strategic planning

Retail

Richard P. Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters. Crown Business, 2011. I have been teaching MBA courses in business strategy, as