Archive 1997-2016
By Jason Brown
When a crew of 10 men pulled up to the front door of a Bank Street restaurant recently with orders to collect as much as they could of value, a Centretown institution came to a swift and brutal end.
Imperial Pizza, a greasy spoon that flourished serving pizza and Lebanese fast food for more than 30 years at its 315 Bank St. location, went bankrupt and closed on Feb. 23.
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.
By Linda Ip
When Mira Shane moved to Ottawa almost 20 years ago, she chose to live in Centretown mainly for its convenient and safe location.
She may be able to add another reason if the city succeeds in declaring the west area of Centretown a Heritage Conservation District.
By Victoria Fulford
A trip to the bank isn’t what it used to be. Using automatic teller machines, telephones and the Internet are more convenient.
For Ottawa’s main branch of the Bank of Montreal, keeping up with the times in a federally designated heritage building is a balancing act between tradition and new technology.