Archive 1997-2016
The search is on to find the new face of Chinatown after Grace Xin, executive director of the area’s business association since March 2008, resigned last month, to take up a new job with the Tourism Industry Association of Canada where she will work primarily to strengthen tourism relations between China and Canada.
A proposal to transform a vacant gas station into a restaurant and parking lot is on track after a city committee voted to exempt the site from the city’s guidelines on the use of the land.
An English-style, high-end steak restaurant and pub is scheduled to open next spring at the renovated former home of Friday’s Roast Beef House – the historic Grant House on Elgin Street.
Boel Marcks von Würtemberg, Centretown NewsRenovations are underway to turn the Grant House into a steak and seafood restaurant.
Ottawa doesn’t need another long-term plan but the recently announced Mid-Centretown Community Design Plan is just that.