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Welcome to the 2025 Edition of the BOMA Commercial Space Directory. This year’s issue looks at our downtown core, and it’s importance to our industry, the business community and the city’s overall economy.
The Downtown Ottawa Action Agenda, spearheaded by BOMA Ottawa, the City of Ottawa, Invest Ottawa, the Ottawa Board of Trade, Ottawa Tourism, and the National Capital Commission, this initiative is guided by the expertise of renowned urbanist Mary Rowe and her team at the Canadian Urban Institute.
We are pleased to welcome Sueling Ching, President & CEO of the Ottawa Board of Trade, to share how this transformative vision is shaping our city’s future—and how you can be part of what’s next!
Also in this issue, Shawn Hamilton, a senior commercial real estate executive and former President of BOMA, shares his insights as a respected industry professional on how this plan can be embraced by BOMA and its members to bring it to life.
Finally, I give my own perspective, as how a newly elected President of BOMA, I spent much of 2024 being a part of the plan development, and will play an even bigger role in 2025 to ensure its implementation.
Enjoy the 2025 edition.
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BOMA Ottawa had an impactful 2024 with a robust calendar of activities designed to advance the commercial real estate industry, foster collaboration, and drive innovation.
Advocacy
A key highlight of 2024 was the development and adoption of the Downtown Ottawa Action Agenda, a collaborative plan aimed at revitalizing the city’s downtown core. BOMA Ottawa looks to play a pivotal role in driving the agenda forward. BOMA champions policies that support sustainable development and economic growth in the region working closely with all levels of government to address key industry concerns, including development charges, property taxes, energy regulations, and building codes, ensuring that members’ voices are heard so Ottawa remains a competitive market for commercial real estate.
Professional Development
Education and professional development remain a cornerstone of BOMA Ottawa’s activities. The organization hosted a variety of training sessions, workshops, seminars and published articles throughout the year, offering members valuable insights into industry trends, technological advancements, and best practices in building management. Much of our emphasis was on Carbon Reduction as we partnered with Ottawa Hydro and marketed participation in the Ottawa Retrofit Accelerator initiative. This is a 3 year program that will provide funding for Carbon Assessments in buildings, capacity buildings, source capital and recognition.
Networking
Networking events, such as golf tournaments and industry luncheons, provided members with valuable opportunities to build relationships and share expertise within the commercial real estate community. BOMA Ottawa’s signature events were particularly well-attended in 2024, with highlights including the sold-out Curling Funspiel, the highly popular Spring and Fall Golf Tournaments, and the much-talked-about Holiday Lunch, which delighted attendees with its creative “1985 Prom” theme.
A significant innovation in 2024 was the inclusion of registration for each of the Industry Lunch Series as part of Corporate members’ dues. This streamlined the registration process, increased corporate member attendance, and allowed for an enhanced experience featuring dynamic and engaging speakers. Notable guests included MP Yasir Naqvi, Paul Morassutti, Chairman of CBRE, and Cameron Love, CEO of the Ottawa Hospital, who each brought valuable insights and perspectives to their respective luncheons.
A dynamic agenda is planned for 2025, including a new website with enhanced registration capabilities and more content as BOMA Ottawa is poised to lead the way in shaping a more innovative, sustainable, and thriving commercial real estate sector in the nation’s capital.
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Paradigm Commercial Real Estate & Brokerage sarah@paradigm-commercial.ca
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Colliers International warren.wilkinson@colliers.com
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Empty offices, storefronts and streets. That’s what downtown Ottawa has been coping with since the COVID-19 pandemic forever changed the city’s core.
So, how do you bring life back to an area that can never go back to exactly the way it was? In May, the Ottawa Board of Trade (OBOT) presented its solution. The Downtown Ottawa Action Agenda is a multi-year proposal that aims to bring life back into the core by investing in its future.
FIVE IMMEDIATE ACTIONS
“What happens in our downtown has a direct and immediate impact on every business, resident and visitor,” Sueling Ching, president and CEO of OBOT, said at the launch of the plan in spring 2024. “Our post-COVID world is very different from what we know and rely on. We will not go back to the way it was. This is the time for diversification and transformation … This is an all-hands-on-deck situation.”
The ambitious plan calls for action that OBOT believes will result in annual economic benefits of more than $1.3 billion, versus a “donothing” scenario that would see an annual loss of property taxes and other payments of at least $62 million.
PRIORITIZE HOUSING: Streamline processes to increase downtown residency through higher density and use of public land.
INVEST IN THE FUTURE: Establish financial mechanisms for ongoing downtown investment.
ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS, ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH: Implement focused programs with multi-level government funding.
IMPROVE REGIONAL MOBILITY: Enhance transit options to make downtown more accessible.
POSITION DOWNTOWN NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY: Marketing efforts to boost economic activity and enhance downtown’s image.
The plan foresees the addition of 40,000 new residents and the creation of 50,000 new jobs downtown by 2034 to draw muchneeded traffic and activity. It also calls for a $500-million capital investment fund to kickstart major downtown projects. OBOT says investments will focus on “catalytic anchors,” including the Sparks Street and ByWard Market public realms and the creation of a business incubation district and an arts/culture corridor.
According to the report, which was
BENEFITS OF IMPLEMENTATION
40,000 residents yield $120 MILLION in annual residential property taxes
1 million new tourists add $80 MILLION in annual downtown spending
50,000 jobs yield $340 MILLION in annual spending by employees
15,000-20,000 NEW TRANSIT RIDERS
Total annual revenue increase of $1.2 BILLION in new local spend and $133 MILLION in annual property tax
MAKE THE DOWNTOWN
DESIRABLE
Affordable, walkable, amenity-rich
RESILIENT
Public and private investment in infrastructure, public realm and placemaking
developed in collaboration with the Canadian Urban Institute, the $1.3 billion in economic benefit would come from $1.2 billion in new local spending and more than $133 million in annual property tax revenues.
The plan is based on the “important replacement” principle, according to Mary Rowe, president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute.
“(Downtown Ottawa) used to import a lot of workers,” she said in spring 2024. “Now you’re going to replace them with people who are living here. They may not work here. They
VISION
ROBUST
Employment growth and economic diversification
may work somewhere else, they may walk to work, they may work from their desk, but they’re going to live here.”
Ching said there are many stakeholders to please and much red tape to cut through, but she believes people and organizations are willing to step up to the plate.
“We’ve identified the priorities of some of the stakeholders and put that all together in one action plan,” she said. “We feel as though we’ve done it in a way that there is, not a total buy-in, but a foundation for working together and moving forward.”
• Leverage Ottawa’s cultural and natural assets.
• Enliven the commercial core and surrounding neighbourhoods to create mixed-use districts with unique characteristics, a diversity of uses and users, vibrant public spaces, economically sustainable businesses, civic landmarks and institutions that are easy to access.
• Build equity and climate resilience.
INCLUSIVE
Safety and security for workers, residents, visitors and vulnerable people
FOUR BIG MOVES
√ Add 40,000 NEW RESIDENTS to downtown by 2034
√ Attract 50,000 JOBS to downtown by 2034
√ Establish a joint $500M FUND to kickstart action
√ Focus on CATALYTIC ANCHORS for downtown
STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
• Build on existing commercial, cultural, institutional and natural assets.
• Optimize connections and mobility in, out and across.
• Invest in public realm and street-level action.
• Prioritize approvals for adaptive reuse, new projects and businesses.
• Renew relationships with public institutions to join the “big tent” to create collaborative infrastructures.
• Encourage bold leadership from all sectors.
• Reinforce public and corporate social responsibility (CSR) priorities of climate resilience, equity, reconciliation and inclusion.
How property owners and managers play a role in the plan
AN INTERVIEW WITH OBOT PRESIDENT AND CEO SUELING CHING
By Mia Jensen
When it comes to downtown revitalization, Ottawa Board of Trade president and CEO Sueling Ching says it’s an “all-hands-ondeck situation.”
In May, the organization launched a plan to get the ball rolling and bring together local stakeholders. The Downtown Ottawa Action Agenda calls for the addition of 40,000 new residents and the creation of 50,000 jobs in the core by 2034 to reignite activity and innovation and bring vibrancy to the core.
It also proposes a joint $500-million fund to kickstart “a series of catalytic projects,” including significant enhancements to the public realms of Sparks Street and ByWard Market and the establishment of a new business incubation district and an arts/culture corridor.
In an interview with OBJ, Ching discusses why everyone, including building owners and managers, should care about the health of Ottawa’s downtown, what changes have contributed to the problems, and the first step to getting involved to become part of the solution.
This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
Why should downtown revitalization efforts be important to building owners and managers in the core?
Downtown Ottawa’s transformation into a more diverse, resilient and vibrant city core is critically important to not only the building owners and managers in the core, but to every business and resident in Ottawa and the National Capital Region.
Now that workforce strategies are changing, we have to replace the people who used to drive our traffic. We need to think about how we can
bring in residents. The goal is to replace those people we’ve lost, bring in others and develop the downtown as a destination. How do we do that?
The next piece is to diversify the economic base. We need to fast-track the development of homes for the people we’re trying to attract and ensure we have the transit to get them there.
Everybody should care. If we lose our downtown, we will be negatively impacting the economic base of the entire region — the tax base that provides support for our city services — and transferring that tax burden to fewer businesses and residents. It will inhibit the growth of the entire city and region. Who’s going to feel it first?
The people who are in the core. But make no mistake, everyone is going to feel it.
What changes to Ottawa’s downtown in recent years most impact building owners and managers?
We have seen a change in the workforce strategy of Ottawa’s anchor employer, the federal
government, and many private-sector employers, which have been drawing thousands into the downtown core since its inception. We built the downtown core for the government and the businesses there, especially the small businesses, are there because of that market. That change, the shift from in-office work, is the thing impacting the downtown the most.
Pre-pandemic, 25 per cent of our workforce worked in the city core and over half of them were federal employees. Fast forward four years and they’re just now coming back to the office three days a week. That’s significant. It’s significant in terms of support for transit, it’s significant in terms of economic impact, it’s significant for the businesses in the core, and it impacts the vibrancy. It is the thing right now.
It’s a challenge, but we are also positioning it as an opportunity. Many people would tell you, pre-pandemic, that the downtown wasn’t what it could be. It closed down at five o’clock. People travelling to European countries have always called me and said, “Sueling, this is what our downtown should look like.” We built the downtown for the federal government, not with architecture in mind. Now the question is, where do we go from here?
What elements of the Downtown Ottawa Action Agenda are BOMA members best positioned to address?
They need to understand that they have a critical role and responsibility to get involved with creating a vision and promoting the implementation of the action agenda. As building owners and managers, they can start by looking for opportunities to ensure that the buildings and workplaces that they have create a sense of workplace wellness for those who are coming back into the office and find ways to increase the vibrancy of the core. It could be through events,
through design, through community initiatives. When it comes to development, we’re expecting a lot of change. I would say, where possible, they should be exploring opportunities for converting excess office space into not just residential, but multi-use spaces, including commercial, arts, culture and entertainment. Community buildings.
Where possible, they can be working with the local board of trade and other economic partners to identify opportunities for and barriers to growth and innovation. They also have a role to play in being an ambassador and telling a positive Ottawa story.
How
important is development to the future of downtown Ottawa?
The government is not just the anchor employer, it is the primary landlord in the downtown core. Even pre-pandemic, it had identified several offices that had become obsolete. That means you’ve got buildings in the core that could be used for the purposes of increasing the vibrancy of the downtown core that are sitting empty. Post-pandemic, the government has identified 50 per cent of its assets that will no longer be needed and 50 per cent of those are in Ottawa.
It has identified a full complement of assets that need to be redeployed. All of these things impact the vibrancy of the core and the ability to attract people here. So the plan is urgent. It’s urgent that we find a way to concurrently get more residents in the core, get more employees, build public grounds, build arts and culture, so that we are stronger and we are no longer reliant on a monocultural economy like we were before.
Where is OBOT in terms of implementing the first steps of the plan?
Since we launched the plan in the spring, our focus has been on making sure people understand the message, that this has to be a whole community approach, that what we’re suggesting is holistic. Residents, employment, public ground, that is the focus and everyone has a role, responsibility and vested interest in the success of the plan. That’s what we’ve been working on. We’re rolling it out, familiarizing people with it and making sure the messaging is right, while at the same time designing an implementation strategy. A lot of the action items are starting to move forward. Some of the goals are long term, but the silver bullet, if people are looking for it, is leadership and collaboration.
How BOMA plans to support downtown revitalization and why the whole city should care
AN INTERVIEW WITH BOMA PRESIDENT JEN ARBUCKLE
BY Sarah MacFarlane
In May, Ottawa’s Building Owners and Managers Association welcomed real estate professional and Metcalfe Realty broker Jen Arbuckle as its new president.
Now, she says she’s excited to help “bridge the gap” as BOMA steps in to support the Ottawa Board of Trade’s Downtown Ottawa Action Agenda.
In one way or another, Arbuckle has been participating in BOMA for decades, while also climbing the ranks at Metcalfe Realty, her family’s business. As she looks ahead, she said BOMA’s priorities are aligned with OBOT’s action plan when it comes to downtown revitalization.
Arbuckle sat down with OBJ to chat about the plan and discuss how — from safety and security to housing and transit — she’s ready to position BOMA as a “cheerleader” and help champion the plan.
This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
As the new president of BOMA Ottawa, how do you foresee BOMA supporting the Ottawa Board of Trade’s Downtown Ottawa Action Agenda?
BOMA has an opportunity to be a champion of advocacy here.
One of my goals is definitely in helping to shape some public perception of the landowners and managers that maintain these giant concrete
jungles and the roles that we play within the city and the stability of our clients and our community.
A 60-step action plan can seem kind of daunting, but BOMA comes in by reaching out to our members and helping to be pillars of support and be that source of knowledge for landlords to go to and ask, “What can I do to help?”
We can be a cheerleader to support solving other issues in the core and they’re issues that, through OBOT, we can help with.
Do BOMA’s priorities for the downtown core align with OBOT’s?
Absolutely. For starters, vacant buildings aren’t
good for anyone; they’re not good for tenants, landlords or the community, or, most importantly, the city. Everybody loses. I think conversion is one of the biggest topics and BOMA can help point out some of the limitations surrounding conversion.
Whether it’s a conversion or whether it’s filling a building with the office tenants the city and its community needs to protect a tax income, that’s better for people. Some people don’t think it applies to them if they live out in suburbia, that it’s not their problem.
But it’s everybody’s problem. From an income position, for sure.
But also from a cultural heartbeat perspective. That’s why we have all of us coming together to say, “We’ve all recognized the problem and how are we going to fix it?”
This action plan is one of them and it’s just protecting the heartbeat and the core of our city from a cultural and tourism perspective, a community perspective and an income perspective.
We can help be the voice, the advocates of private support through our membership base. We want building owners to be able to help if they want to and they do want to contribute. We want to say, “Come to BOMA and we can point you in the right direction.”
The plan can be a lot to digest, but we can be in an advocacy role, working with all levels of government, to be the uniting umbrella and help champion this.
Are there any big challenges or barriers to this that you’re anticipating?
I think there’s an educational aspect we have to think about. When people say, “Just convert offices into housing,” there are actually massive barriers to that on the financial level and so I think we’ll have an educational role.
And again, that comes from the advocacy standpoint that just having an office converting to residential isn’t an easy undertaking. There are monetary barriers, but we also need support from the municipality in terms of development charges and reducing those mechanical barriers.
That opportunity to convert perhaps aging inventory into something newer and useful takes money. (The city) knows that housing is one of the biggest issues that’s talked about and that is challenging for individuals in our community and the building owners are in a position to address that need. But it isn’t an easy undertaking.
Another aspect that does affect our downtown core is transit when it comes to how people are coming into the core and enjoying it. They have to be able to get here. And security matters too — they need to feel safe. That’s not necessarily something BOMA can address on its own, but it’s something we can try to shed even more light on. Pre-pandemic, we were talking about the
.... VACANT BUILDINGS AREN’T GOOD FOR ANYONE; THEY’RE NOT GOOD FOR TENANTS, LANDLORDS OR THE COMMUNITY, OR, MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE CITY.
vibrancy of the five-to-nine, but now we’re up against the nine-to-five, too.
It is a multi-pronged approach that includes everything from public services, transit, security and tourism to the BIAs, restaurants and overall vibrancy downtown.
You don’t want to see developers moving out of the city, which they are doing, and that takes development targets and fees out of the city’s pocket.
And this is an immediate need. We have some developers here in the core converting their buildings right now. You don’t want to miss the boat.
I really like the marriage, when it comes to
this topic, between OBOT and BOMA because it bridges that gap between the businesses and building owners so we’re continually aligned. The more advocacy and awareness that we have, I think the faster we’ll get there. I think BOMA will really help in getting private support and we want to really just bring all these stakeholders together.
OBOT has truly championed this and put it in the spotlight and we’re happy to be a part of it and jump on the bandwagon.
I’m just incredibly proud to represent this organization. We’ve gone through some really soft spots in the market, it’s incredibly challenging, but I’m proud to be a part of this organization and to be trying to influence and advocate for this.
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‘Putting Ottawa on the map’: The ‘elegance’ of the OBOT plan and BOMA’s part in it
AN INTERVIEW WITH PAST PRESIDENT SHAWN HAMILTON
BY Sarah MacFarlane
Shawn Hamilton, senior commercial real estate executive and principal at Proveras Commercial Realty, has been a pillar in the local real estate industry for decades.
Part of this has been his involvement in BOMA operations and goals at both the local and national levels and, throughout that time, Hamilton says he’s been proud to work for an organization that is “the voice of the commercial real estate industry” in the city.
As a self-proclaimed champion and advocate for Ottawa’s downtown, Hamilton says he’s ready for BOMA to join forces with other local organizations and bring the Ottawa Board of Trade’s Downtown Ottawa Action Agenda to fruition.
OBJ sat down with Hamilton to hear about how Ottawa has changed during his career, what challenges city-building efforts face, and how his plans are “positioning Ottawa on the map as a city that is open for business.”
The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
How has downtown Ottawa evolved during your time with BOMA?
I’ve been involved in the commercial real estate industry since the early ‘90s. And when I entered the business, we were in the grips of a huge recession with downtown vacancy and activity that I would say was more acute than the situation that we are in right now. We then
recovered. We’ve gone through several phases over the last 30 years.
I’m delighted to report that each time we have come through the other side and recovered and, ironically, each time we were in the grips of a crisis, we always thought the world was coming to an end.
I’m not downplaying the seriousness of the situation right now. But I also want people to understand that we’ve been here before.
What is BOMA’s role in implementing OBOT’s plan?
The most natural way would be to bring forward the voice of the building ownership and management of downtown so that there is one entity representing all of the information for different building owners.
So if the Ottawa Board of Trade needs the help of the commercial real estate industry to execute an initiative, BOMA would be very good at uniting the ownership towards a successful implementation.
For the success of downtown, everybody needs to be a part of the solution. But if we had 8,000 different stakeholders at the table,
everybody would be talking and nobody would be listening. We need strong representative groups like OBOT, BOMA, Ottawa Tourism and Invest Ottawa all at the table.
Are there barriers in place that are discouraging that sort of progress?
I’m going to say no, but I would say that in every bad circumstance there are always fortuitous byproducts that come out of it.
We never really had to look left or look right and unite or cross-pollinate between organizations.
I would say the biggest challenge, and I’m using air quotes around “challenge,” is just, “How do we work together? How do we communicate together?” It’s not difficult, it’s just the first time we’re doing it. I don’t want to use the word challenge. But it requires some acclimatization.
The conversations that we are having about Ottawa’s downtown used to be about business or tech or government. Now, the conversation is more three-dimensional. We’re talking about arts and culture, diversity, equity and inclusion, community, housing, tourism, learning, business.
There’s a much more robust discussion about downtown Ottawa than we ever had before, certainly in my 30-plus years.
We are starting to understand the links between how our community and how our society operates and it’s really exciting.
Which issues addressed by the plan align with BOMA’s priorities?
The plan is designed as something that needs to be addressed to help prop up and create a sustainable downtown for the future. We’re talking about a downtown that will last and be relevant and be accretive to the sense of community of downtown.
You can talk about (commercial real estate) as an investment vehicle. Many would argue that it is. The reality is, it needs to fit the needs of the people.
People make businesses. The businesses pay rent and the rent is what creates the investment vehicle that makes people want to build commercial real estate.
We’ve got to create a downtown that appeals to the needs of people. That’s education, living, safety, economic development, transit and making everyone feel inclusive and safe.
The plan involves adding 40,000 residents to downtown by 2034, attracting 50,000 jobs, and establishing a $500-million fund to kickstart anchors for downtown. How does this play into BOMA’s goals?
There’s a monoculture in downtown Ottawa, which evolved as we grew to accommodate the federal government. It’s not good or bad. We’re a
bit unique in that regard.
To bring some balance to the downtown core, we want to bring residents here. That’ll create new development, conversion opportunities and a resident population that, through conversions, will remove obsolete office stock from the inventory, making our remaining stock more relevant. That benefits the owners who can have a building converted and breathe new life into their bricks and mortar for the future.
There’s emerging rhetoric that somebody’s benefit has to come at somebody’s loss. The elegance about what the board of trade is proposing is that this benefit doesn’t come at anybody’s loss.
In terms of wielding influence, this action plan provides positives for everybody without anyone suffering a negative consequence.
Does a partnership between BOMA and the Ottawa Board of Trade shed light and hope on the issues faced by downtown Ottawa?
This is a united plan of attack and we’re excited to be part of it. We want to be contributors and we are here to do our part. Listen, we invest in this city. We are a huge industry in this city. We are citizens of this city and, ultimately, we want this city to succeed. That’s really what this is all about.
QuadReal eyes ‘amazing’ retail names for revamped World Exchange Plaza
By David Sali
The owners of the newly renovated World Exchange Plaza are bringing in a “wellknown” coffee retailer and seeking a restaurant to fill space formerly occupied by the LCBO as they try to keep pace with other downtown landlords that have
modernized their properties in a bid to entice workers back to the office.
QuadReal Property Group, which manages the two-tower, 675,000-square-foot retail and office complex just south of Parliament Hill, is “very close” to announcing a deal that will see a prominent coffee chain move into a new 1,700-square-foot retail space on the ground
floor next to the Albert Street entrance, a senior executive told OBJ in October.
Peter Costa, senior vice-president of office, Eastern Canada at QuadReal, also said the property management firm is “working hard” to secure a restaurant tenant to take over the 4,600-square-foot former LCBO space on the southeast corner of the ground floor.
The changes are part of a major revamp of the World Exchange Plaza, which opened in 1991 and is owned by the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. and RBC Global Asset Management.
The three-year project included a complete renovation of the complex’s first two floors and a significant makeover of the third floor, which features a new fitness centre as well as communal desk space and private meeting rooms.
Other additions include a new outdoor amphitheatre and pop-up retail pavilion on the corner of Albert and Metcalfe streets.
Several new food retailers have moved into the complex, which is following in the footsteps of other nearby commercial properties, such as Constitution Square and the Sun Life Financial Centre, that have also undergone major renovations in the past few years.
Costa wouldn’t put a price tag on the project, saying only the cost was “very significant.” But he said the plaza’s owners expect the investment to pay off in the long run amid an ongoing trend that’s seeing more and more office tenants relocate to smaller spaces in higher-quality buildings as they rethink their real estate needs in a post-pandemic world.
“I think that tenants, if they’re going to commit to space, are looking at redesigning their space … I think, at the same time, they’re looking for the landlord to provide those amenities so their employees can come to work, spend the whole day here,” he said.
“They want to go for a workout or they want to go out for lunch with their friends here at WEP. They can go out to the amphitheatre and hang out outside and enjoy the landscaped areas out there.”
The complex’s retail component is currently about 33 per cent vacant, with 15,000 square feet of space available for lease. Costa says QuadReal expects to finalize up to five additional deals with new tenants by early 2025.
On the office side, the vacancy rate sits at about 10 per cent. Most of that is on two empty floors that were occupied until last year by law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, covering a total of 44,000 square feet.
That space is now being renovated, and Costa said he’s confident it won’t remain vacant for long.
“Despite the challenges in the market, we’ve seen tours increase; we’ve seen multiple tenants looking at the same space,” he said. “With this renovation, I think it really puts WEP on the map for some of the best amenities in a mixeduse office complex in the downtown core.”
Firms behind Zibi project float new ideas for Gatineau land
By David Sali
The companies behind the Zibi development say they’re looking to join forces with another real estate firm to build amenities that could include a hotel and convention centre in Gatineau. Toronto-based Dream Unlimited and Dream Impact Trust — which are leading construction of the multibillion-dollar, 34-acre community straddling both sides of the Ottawa River just west of downtown — recently put 3.27 acres of land earmarked for the Zibi project up for sale.
In a news release announcing the move in October, the companies said the property, which is located near Gatineau’s Place du Portage complex and overlooks Parliament Hill and the Ottawa River, has room for up to one million square feet of development. They said they
envision the site, dubbed the Capital View Lands, being developed with five separate buildings.
In an interview with OBJ, Dream Unlimited senior vice-president of development Justin Robitaille said the move will allow a different company to bring “other interesting ideas” to the table as it works with his firm and Dream Impact Trust to accelerate development of the property.
Robitaille suggested a number of potential uses for the land, including seniors’ housing as well as more commercial-oriented facilities.
“We know there’s a need for convention centre space in the Gatineau region,” he said, adding a hotel could also “make a lot of sense” if there’s demand for it.
“So there’s sort of ideas like that that aren’t necessarily part of our core business, where we would like to be able to invite others that are in that space to be able to partner on developing
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The announcement that the Capital View Lands were on the market came just days after the Ottawa Senators struck an agreement in principle to buy 10 acres of land at LeBreton Flats from the National Capital Commission.
Robitaille called the team’s potential move to Ottawa’s core a “game-changer,” adding it could create momentum for future development at Zibi.
“Especially in the next five, six years, if we see shovels in the ground (at LeBreton), maybe that sparks additional demand for housing, and we obviously think Zibi can be a big contributor to meeting some of that demand,” he said. “We think it’ll spark a lot of investment in and around LeBreton. We think that there are some significant ripple-on effects that we think we can certainly benefit from.”
In the meantime, work goes on at the multiphased, mixed-use community, which is expected to include about four million square feet of commercial and residential space. Robitaille said about one million square feet has already been constructed at Zibi, which is projected to eventually house 5,000 residents and employ 6,000 people. He estimated it will take “probably another 12 to 15 years, depending on market conditions” before the project is fully built out.
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DOWNTOWN
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ALBERTST
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LAURIERAVEE
Fuller Building
75 Albert Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 5E7
85 Albert
85 Albert Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 6A4
World Exchange Plaza III
111 Albert Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 1A4
116 Albert 116 Albert Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 5G3
Varette Building
130 Albert Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 5G4
255 Albert 255 Albert Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 6A9
Mike Shore, Jen Arbuckle reception@metcalferealty com
613-563-4442
Metcalfe Realty Company Ltd. metcalfe.ca
Mike Shore, Jen Arbuckle reception@metcalferealty.com
613-563-4442
Metcalfe Realty Company Ltd. metcalfe.ca
Tracey Laroque tracey.larocque@quadreal.com
QuadReal Property Group quadreal.com
Mike Shore, Jen Arbuckle reception@metcalferealty.com 613-563-4442
Metcalfe Realty Company Ltd. metcalfe.ca
Mike Shore, Jen Arbuckle reception@metcalferealty.com 613-563-4442
Erin Nagy erin.nagy@jll.com 613.204 9513 JLL jll.ca
BOMA BEST® is a national green building certification program launched in 2005 to address an industry need for realistic standards for energy and environmental performance of existing buildings based on accurate, independently verified information. Commercial buildings that are BOMA BEST® certified will have a distinct advantage when it comes to attracting and retaining tenants. In most cases, it also costs less to operate and maintain the buildings due to increase in overall building efficiency.
Built: 2004
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 11
Total Sq. Ft.: 252,000
Typical Floor: 22,000
Built: 1925
Renovated: 2021
Storeys: 5
Total Sq. Ft.: 24,300
Typical Floor: 6,000
Built: 1972
Renovated: 1991
Storeys: 15
Total Sq. Ft.: 205,596
Typical Floor: 13,500
Built: 1967
Renovated: 2016
Storeys: 22
Total Sq. Ft.: 268,700
Floor: 12,500
Built: 1970
Renovated: 2010
Storeys: 22
Total Sq. Ft.: 268,388
Floor: 10,700
Built: 1963
Renovated: 2014 Storeys: 11
Total Sq. Ft.: 111,023 Typical Floor: 10,323
Built: 1967
Renovated: WND Storeys: 13
Total Sq. Ft.: 139,798
Built: 2011
Renovated: WND Storeys: 18
Total Sq. Ft.: 482,062 Typical Floor: 26,500
151 Slater
151 Slater Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 5H3
171 Slater
171 Slater Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 5H7
215 Slater Street
215 Slater Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 0A6
280 Slater Street
280 Slater Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 1C2
Jean Edmonds Tower North
300 Slater Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 6A6
Minto Place - Canada Building
344 Slater Street
Ottawa Ontario K1R 7Y7
Hydro Building
56 Sparks Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 5A9
The Bank Building
62 Sparks Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 5A8
Mike Shore, Jen Arbuckle reception@metcalferealty com 613-563-4442
Metcalfe Realty Company Ltd. metcalfe ca
John Esposito jesposito@groupemach.com 613.380.2018 Groupe Mach groupemach.com
Marco Vocisano mvocisano@bonabuilding.ca 613-745-9122
BONA Properties www.bonaproperties.com
Daniela Erazo daniela@prpgrp com
6133695635
The Properties Group Management Ltd. prpgrp com
Mitch Provost mprovost@btbreit com
613-748-7767
BTB Real Estate Investment Trust btbreit com
Mitch Provost mprovost@btbreit com
613-748-7767
BTB Real Estate Investment Trust btbreit com
Frances Brazeau franzesb@richcraf t com
613-739-5777
Richcraf t Properties richraf tproperties com
Built: 1968
Renovated: 2006
Storeys: 6 Total Sq. Ft.: 131,519 Typical Floor: 21,919
Renovated: WND Storeys: 1
Sq. Ft.: 109,000
Floor: 10,900
Built: 2015
Renovated: WND Storeys: 10
Sq. Ft.: 290,000
Floor: 29,000
Built: 1972
Renovated: 1989
Storeys: 2
Sq. Ft.: 30,168
15,084
Built: 1985
Renovated: 2011
Storeys: 2
Sq. Ft.: 54,000
Floor: 27,000
Built: 1991
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 5
Sq. Ft.: 103,400
Floor: 20,680
Built: 1980
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 1 Total Sq. Ft.: 316,942
Floor: 316,942
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Mike Shore, Jen Arbuckle reception@metcalferealty.com
613-563-4442
Metcalfe Realty Company Ltd. metcalfe ca
Chris Turvill cturvill@colonnadebridgeport ca 613-225-8118
Colonnade BridgePort colonnadebridgeport.ca
John Esposito jesposito@groupemach.com 613 380.2018
Groupe Mach groupemach.com
Sheena Whitten swhitten@huntingtonproperties ca 613-592-1818
Huntington Properties huntingtonproperties.ca
Lee Lacombe llacombe@colonnadebridgeport.cc 343-633-4956
Colonnade BridgePort.ca colonnadebridgeport ca
Built: 1976
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 4
Total Sq. Ft.: 43,646
Typical Floor: 10,789
Built: 1974
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 5
Total Sq. Ft.: 55,031
Typical Floor: 11,379
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 5 Total Sq. Ft.: 35,000
Floor: 7,000
Renovated: WND Storeys: 4
Sq. Ft.: 66,000
Floor: 16,500
Built: 1986
Renovated: 2006 Storeys: 8
Sq. Ft.: 119,147
Floor: 15,457
Built: 1997
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 9
Total Sq. Ft.: 381,800
Built: 1985
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 3
Total Sq. Ft.: 61,000
Typical Floor: 12,800
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 2 Total Sq. Ft.: 44,495
Built: 1988
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 7
Total Sq. Ft.: 96,316
Typical Floor: 16,300
Built: 1990
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 6
Total Sq. Ft.: 90,178
Typical Floor: 14,700
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 1
Total Sq. Ft.: 20,587
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 1
Total Sq. Ft.: 20,733
140 Iber Road
140 Iber Road
Ottawa Ontario K2S 1E9
1523 Laperriere
1523 Laperriere Ave
Ottawa Ontario K1Z 7S9
1550 Laperriere Avenue
1550 Laperriere Avenue
Ottawa Ontario K1Z 8P5
One Laser 1 Laser Street
Ottawa Ontario K2E 7V1
319 McRae Ave
319 McRae Avenue
Ottawa Ontario K1Z 8P4
Rideauview Corporate Centre
885 Meadowlands Drive
Ottawa Ontario K2C 3N2
195-215 Menten Place
195-215 Menten Place
Ottawa Ontario K2H 9C1
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Lee Lacombe llacombe@colonnadebridgeport.ca 343.633 4956
Colonnade BridgePort colonnadebridgeport ca
Mike Shore, Jen Arbuckle reception@metcalferealty com 613-563-4442
Metcalfe Realty Company Ltd. metcalfe.ca
Sheena Whitten swhitten@huntingtonproperties ca 613-592-1818 Huntington Properties huntingtonproperties.ca
Daniel Donnelly ddonnelly@arnon.ca, Dan Gray dgray@arnon.ca
Arnon Corporation arnon.ca
Paul Miller pmiller@colonnadebridgeport ca 613-225-8118
Colonnade BridgePort colonnadebridgeport ca
Jason Shinder jasonshinder@districtrealty.com 613-759-8383
District Realty Corporation, Brokerage districtrealty com
Paul Miller pmiller@colonnadebridgeport.ca 613-225-8118
Colonnade BridgePort colonnadebridgeport.ca
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 1 Total Sq. Ft.: 77,978
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 1 Total Sq. Ft.: 38,734
Built: 1955
Renovated: 2006 Storeys: 2
Sq. Ft.: 33,553
Floor: 23,800
Built: 1985
Renovated: 2006
1
Sq. Ft.: 22,755
22,755
Built: 2015
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 7 Total Sq. Ft.: 113,722
Built: 1974
Renovated: 2002
Storeys: 5
Total Sq. Ft.: 124,142
Built: 1986
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 1
Total Sq. Ft.: 24,125
Typical Floor: 24,125
BOMA Ottawa is also the local service provider for the BOMA BEST® Program, the Canadian industry standard for commercial building sustainability certification. BOMA BEST® is the only assessment and certification program of its kind for commercial buildings in Canada. It is a unique, voluntary, national program designed to assess environmental performance and management of existing buildings, and is offered by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Canada (BOMA Canada) as a service to all commercial building owners and managers across Canada.
Morrison Drive Office Park
1050 Morrison Drive
Ottawa Ontario K2H 8S9
1120 Morrison Drive
1120 Morrison Drive
Ottawa Ontario K2H 1C5
1140 Morrison Drive
1140 Morrison Drive
Ottawa Ontario K2H 6Y6
383 Parkdale
383 Parkdale Avenue
Ottawa Ontario K1Y 4R4
Preston Square Tower I
333 Preston Street
Ottawa Ontario K1S 5N4
Preston Square Tower II
343 Preston Street
Ottawa Ontario K1S 1N4
Preston Square Tower III
353 Preston Street
Ottawa Ontario K1S 1V6
Green Valley Office Park I 1101 Prince of Wales Drive
Ottawa Ontario K2C 3W7
1111 Prince of Wales Dr. 1111 Prince of Wales Drive
BOMA Ottawa is incorporated as a Not For Profit Corporation under Ontario Law. As such decisions and practices are governed by the Bylaws determined by the Membership and a series of Policies developed from time to time by the Board of Directors.
BOMA Ottawa also looks to the future through the use of a Strategic Plan, that outlines our roadmap for success over incremental five year periods.
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Built: 1952
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 3 Total Sq. Ft.: 58,578
Built: 1985
Renovated: WND Storeys: 3
Total Sq. Ft.: 35,384 Typical Floor: 11,800
Built: 1966
Renovated: 2002 Storeys: 4
Sq. Ft.: 21,940
Floor: 4,620
Built: 1974
Renovated: 1993
12
Sq. Ft.: 147,070
Floor: 12,000
Renovated: WND
1
Sq. Ft.: 23,000
Built: 2015
Renovated: WND Storeys: 1
Sq. Ft.: 18,856
2175 Robertson Road
2175 Robertson Road
Ottawa Ontario K2H 1C5
Carling Square I
560 Rochester Street
Ottawa Ontario K1S 5K2
Eiffel Building 411 Roosevelt Ave.
Ottawa Ontario K2A 3X9
Holland Cross Tower B 1600 Scott Street
Ottawa Ontario K1A 1B7
1306 Wellington Street West
1306 Wellington Street West
Ottawa Ontario K1Y 2Y2
1737 Woodward
1737 Woodward Avenue
Ottawa Ontario K2C 0P9
1701 Woodward
1701 Woodward Drive
Ottawa Ontario K2C 0R4
1725 Woodward
1725 Woodward Drive
Ottawa Ontario K2C 0P9
1780-1800 Woodward Drive
1780-1800 Woodward Drive
Ottawa Ontario K2C 0P7
1785-1801 Woodward
1785 & 1801 Woodward Drive
Ottawa Ontario K2C 0R3
1827 Woodward Drive
1827 Woodward Drive
Ottawa Ontario K2C 0P9
Sheena Whitten swhitten@huntingtonproperties ca 613-592-1818
Huntington Properties huntingtonproperties.ca
Daniel Donnelly ddonnelly@arnon.ca, Dan Gray dgray@arnon.ca Arnon Corporation arnon.ca
Jason Shinder jasonshinder@districtrealty com 613-759-8383
District Realty Corporation, Brokerage districtrealty.com
Chris Turvill cturvill@colonnadebridgeport.ca 613-225-8118
BOMA members include those who own, manage, service or support in excess of 60 million square feet of commercial, office, retail, industrial and institutional property in the region.
BOMA Ottawa is one of the National Capital Region’s most active and effective business associations.
Andrew Eberhard
aeberhard@jenningsdevelopments com 613-709-0263
Jennings Real Estate Corporation www.jenningsdevelopments com
The mission of BOMA Ottawa is to represent the interests of commercial real estate owners and managers, by being the voice of the real estate industry in the National Capital area, through advocacy, promoting the highest industry standards, and educational development, and by fostering business relationships amongst its members and within the community it operates.
Built: 2001
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 5
Total Sq. Ft.: 196,000
Typical Floor: 39,600
Built: 1998
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 3
Total Sq. Ft.: 68,982
Floor: 22,500
Built: 1995
Renovated: WND Storeys: 3
Sq. Ft.: 248,586
Built: 1997
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 3
Total Sq. Ft.: 83,757 Typical Floor: 28,000
Built: 1988
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 2 Total Sq. Ft.: 96,965
Floor: 48,482
Built: 1995
Renovated: WND
1
Sq. Ft.: 30,381
30,381
Built: 1995
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 2 Total Sq. Ft.: 37,734
Floor: 19,365
Built: 1990
Renovated: WND Storeys: 4
Sq. Ft.: 37,021
Floor: 9,500
Built: 1989
Renovated: WND Storeys: 2
Total Sq. Ft.: 22,567 Typical Floor: 11,283
BOULEVARD
BOULEVARD
550 Place de la Cité
550 Boulevard de la Cité Gatineau Quebec J8T 0A7
70 Crémazie
70 Crémazie Street Gatineau Quebec J8Y 3P2
22 de Varennes
22 de Varennes J8T 8R1
45 de Villebois
45 de Villebois Gatineau Quebec J8T 8J7
105 Hotel de Ville
105 Hotel de Ville Gatineau Quebec J8X 3J9
Place du Portage II
165 Hotel-de-Ville
Gatineau Quebec J8X 3X2
Place du Portage III 11 Laurier Street Gatineau Quebec J8X 4A6
72 Laval Street
72 Laval Street
Gatineau Quebec J8X 3H3
200 Montcalm Tower I
200 Montcalm
Gatineau Quebec J8Y 3B5
200 Montcalm Tower II
200 Montcalm
Gatineau Quebec J8Y 3B5
7-9 Montclair Boulevard
7-9 Montclair Boulevard
Gatineau Quebec J8Y 2E2
John Esposito jesposito@groupemach.com 613.380.2018 Groupe Mach groupemach.com
Jacques St-Jean j.st-jean@multivesco.com 819-778-5001 ext.208 Multivesco multivesco com
Place du Portage IV
140 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau Quebec J8X 4B6
Kevin Smith Kevin.Smith@bgo com 613-782-3871 BentallGreenOak bentallgreenoak.com
Noel Chretien noel.chretien@brookfieldgis com 819-598-8190
Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions brookfieldgis.com
Johanne Piché Johanne.piche@bgis.com 873-353-9992
Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions brookfieldgis com
Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions brookfieldgis.com
Henry Topas htopas@canpro.ca 514-282-1155
Canpro Investments Ltd www.canpro.ca
Cominar cominar.com
Jacques St-Jean
j.st-jean@multivesco.com
819-778-5001 ext.208 Multivesco multivesco.com
Jacques St-Jean
j.st-jean@multivesco.com
819-778-5001 ext.208 Multivesco multivesco.com
Noel Chretien
noel.chretien@brookfieldgis com 819-598-8190
Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions brookfieldgis com
BOMA BEST® Program
Built: 1978
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 12
Total Sq. Ft.: 388,500
Typical Floor: 32,375 Private
Built: 2015
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 5
Total Sq. Ft.: 134,000
Typical Floor: 22,000
Built: 1956
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 3
Total Sq. Ft.: 923,595
Typical Floor: 280,000
Built: 1970
Renovated: 2005
Storeys: 15
Total Sq. Ft.: 222,600 Typical Floor: 15,110
Built: 1983
Renovated: 2001
Storeys: 5 Total Sq. Ft.: 198,109
Floor: 27,200
Built: 1989
Renovated: 2012
Storeys: 2
Total Sq. Ft.: 150,000
Built: 2014
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 14
Total Sq. Ft.: 433,370 Typical Floor: 32,900
Built: 1973
Renovated: WND
Storeys: 24
Total Sq. Ft.: 1,150,868
Typical Floor: 15,064
The building industry worldwide is actively looking for ways to do its part in addressing concerns about conserving the earth’s resources. Governments are examining issues surrounding use of energy, waste management and the generation of pollutants with increasing urgency. Changes in law are constantly evolving and the building industry has a choice: to be a leader in developing its own plans to conserve scarce resources or possibly be forced to do so by unnecessary government interventions.
BOMA BEST® is a national green building certification program launched in 2005 to address an industry need for realistic standards for energy and environmental performance of existing buildings based on accurate, independently verified information. Commercial buildings that are BOMA BEST® certified will have a distinct advantage when it comes to attracting and retaining tenants. In most cases, it also costs less to operate and maintain the buildings due to increase in overall building efficiency.
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
OTTAWA, ON
GATINEAU, QC
INDUSTRIAL SPACES
BOMA Ottawa would like to thank CB Richard Ellis for providing and compiling all the data that make up the Industrial listings.
Survey Criteria
Buildings included in the BOMA Ottawa Industrial Space Directory met each of the following criteria:
• Located within the municpal boundaries of the City of Ottawa
• Comprise a total building area of approximately 30,000 square feet or more, of which more than 50% is designed for industrial usage
• Privately owned with industrial premises currently leased or available for lease
KANATA, WEST CARLETON, GOULBOURN 1
EAST-WEST MERIVALE, COLONNADE, RIDEAU HEIGHTS
SOUTH WALKLEY, OTTAWA BUSINESS PARK, OTTAWA SOUTH, STEVENAGE-BELGREEN, SOUTH
Lowe’s; Landmark Cinemas; Food Basics; CIBC; Moxie’s; East Side Mario’s
Canadian Tire; Walmart; Super Centre
Farm Boy; Shoppers Drug Mart; The Beer Store; Bank of Montreal; Dairy Queen;
Famous Players; Chapters; Goodlife Fitness
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Standards
BOMA Ottawa has been saluting excellence in the office building industry since 1990 through its awarding of the TOBY and Pinnacle Awards. Through these BOMA Awards, recognition is given for excellence in property management, operations, resource conservation, environmental awareness, leasing and building design, customer service and innovation. In our constantly changing industry, the greatest strength of any company is the people it employs. The BOMA Awards recognize teamwork, outstanding service and commitment to clients. BOMA takes great pride in recognizing these teams and individuals who, through their drive and determination, are constantly searching for and achieving excellence. Award winners move on to compete at the National and International Level against their peers at BOMEX in September and at the BOMA International conference in June.
BOMA Ottawa is also the local service provider for the BOMA BEST® Program, the Canadian industry standard for commercial building sustainability certification. BOMA BEST® is the only assessment and certification program of its kind for commercial buildings in Canada. It is a unique, voluntary, national program designed to assess environmental performance and management of existing buildings, and is offered by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Canada (BOMA Canada) as a service to all commercial building owners and managers across Canada.
