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TAYLOR BLEWETT Ottawa Citizen, Updated: August 14, 2018 In late 2017, local realtor Steve Peippo started noticing something exceptional was going on in Ottawa’s residential rental market. Prospective tenants competing for rental properties were offering more than the listed price, or offering longer rental terms — anything to gain an advantage. Only a few months […]

Regional Group, the developers of Greystone Village in Old Ottawa East, are holding their application for tree removals in abeyance as they investigate other methods for preservation of mature trees within their new community.   “We have always seen great value in trees and sought to preserve them whenever possible”, said Dave Wallace, Regional Group’s […]

When the Guess Who released their hit song Share the Land in 1970, they were likely unaware that another group 2,100 km farther to the east was already making a name for itself as an innovative leader in the collaborative use of Canadian lands — Regional Group of Ottawa.

Earlier in the year, I wrote a piece about the draw of the urban core for the kinds of businesses which traditionally flocked to suburban business parks, but what about that big swath of real estate in the middle? It recently made headlines in Ottawa when venerable satellite firm Telesat announced it would give up its home […]

What will a future with autonomous vehicles on the road really look like? I think they nailed it quite well way back in 1990 in one of Schwarzenegger’s sci-fi flicks, Total Recall. Most urban dwellers take some form of mass transit. The next option is a robo-taxi service called Johnny Cab. Actual individual automobiles with intelligent […]

In a RENX.ca column a couple of years ago, I asked the question “are we at risk of becoming tenants in our own country?” Some would have us think so, at least in overheated urban markets like Toronto and Vancouver, but I still find more questions than answers whenever I dive into this increasingly complicated […]

Greystone Village’s River Terraces Ground Breaking on Oct 3, 2017. From left to right: David Kardish, Josh Kardish, Mayor Jim Watson.   I vividly remember the Greystone Village Grand Opening, way back in September of 2015.  It was an eagerly anticipated event — a “plum” parcel of historic Ottawa was going to change shape. What exactly […]