Ottawa Business Journal

Hydro Ottawa planning $80M consolidation

March 28, 2013 - 16 h 39

The city’s public utility is spending $80 million to construct two new suburban facilities so it can consolidate the locations it has scattered throughout Ottawa by 2016.

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Gatineau puts vacant lot north of downtown up for sale

March 21, 2013 - 11 h 42

The City of Gatineau has issued a public tender for empty land it plans to sell north of downtown.

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UPDATED: ‘Unique’ tenant needed for Rideau Centre theatre space: broker

March 12, 2013 - 15 h 48

The unconventional layout and orientation of the soon-to-be vacated movie theatres on the top floor of the Rideau Centre mean the mall’s owners may look to a non-retail tenant to fill the space, according to one local real estate expert.

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Empire Theatres to close Rideau Centre location, reopen at Lansdowne

March 11, 2013 - 15 h 55

There will soon be a vacancy at one of Ottawa’s largest shopping centres as Empire Theatres announced Monday it will be leaving its space at the Rideau Centre before the end of March.

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LEED’s need for speed: Green building certification process needs to be accelerated, officials concede

March 8, 2013 - 15 h 46

The organization responsible for doling out a much-coveted seal of approval for green buildings still has some work to do to reach its goal of speeding up the approvals process, one of its officials said.

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City committee endorses proposed Kanata outlet mall

February 26, 2013 - 16 h 13

An outlet mall proposed for the Ottawa’s west end is one step closer to being built, as councillors on the city’s planning committee gave their go-ahead to the proposal at a Tuesday meeting.

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DND’s Carling Avenue consolidation at a standstill

February 15, 2013 - 8 h 36

More than two years after paying $208 million to buy the sprawling former home of Nortel Networks, the federal government says it still lacks a budget, timeline and specific plans to renovate the campus and consolidate the Department of National...

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Office developers running out of downtown land

February 13, 2013 - 16 h 59

Condo builders are squeezing office developers out of the downtown core to the point that the few remaining commercial development sites are insufficient to meet demand for new space beyond the next decade, according to a local real estate expert.

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Place d'Orleans goes to H&R REIT in compromise

February 5, 2013 - 16 h 18

The two rival groups that have been competing to buy Primaris Retail Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:PMZ.UN), one of Canada's largest shopping mall operators, have reached a $4.6-billion compromise.

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Making their mark in the Market

January 31, 2013 - 8 h 15

The two ByWard Market businesswomen had been talking about it for roughly nine years. They would run into each other in the York Street building where they were both tenants and, inevitably, it would come up.

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