Archive 1997-2016
By Shachi Kurl
Ottawa Neighborhood Services has been given a new lease on life, thanks to an infusion of cash from the region.
In a unanimous decision on Wednesday that took only seconds to make, the Region of Ottawa-Carleton approved a $75,000 loan to keep the non-profit organization alive.
One innovation only will bring prosperity to Sparks Street Mall merchants (Business, Feb. 6), that is, residential development. Mixed zoning and the purchase and thoughtful renovation of existing buildings by the private sector would add people to our town’s greatest neighborhood!
The power struggle between Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and Regional Chair Bob Chiarelli over redeveloping Lansdowne Park is more than just a political showdown.
It’s a sign that the city hasn’t given enough thought to how to develop the area.
Mayor Watson and the city are eager to let the private sector take Lansdowne off their hands, but they now have to contend with the fact that the region has a say in the matter. While Lansdowne is owned by the city, any major changes to the area must be approved by regional council.
By Karyn Pugliese
Centretowners of all classes once spurned apartment buildings as evil and immoral abodes.
But when famed Ottawa architect, Cecil Burgess, designed an apartment building for fashionable Metcalfe Street — the old stomping ground of Mackenzie King and Sir John A. Macdonald — he was fashioning an apartment building for the elite.