Category: Business
Stittsville’s OZ Optics gets $100k in federal funding
(Press release from FedDev Ontario.) Today, FedDev Ontario Minister Gary Goodyear announced an important investment of up to $100,000 in OZ Optics Limited, a worldwide supplier of fiber optic products…
New product revolutionizes home-based organic food gardening
(Press release from Seed Haven.) Finally, urban gardeners have pesticide free protection for growing vegetables and herbs. They can produce higher yields from the small garden spaces typical of this…
Gluten-free cookie maker bakes up expansion plan
Joanna Zappia, the owner of Stittsville-based bakery Dolci, has big plans to expand her gluten-free cookie business. She’s launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to help fund the expansion.
Pretty Pots is a vault of local history
(Above: Pretty Pots owner Shannon Gorman, in front of the flower cooler. All photos by Barry Gray.) There’s a lot of hidden history in Stittsville, sometimes you just have to…
Luxury store Saks could open at Kanata Tanger Outlets this spring
UPDATE: Confirmed for Spring 2016. For a brief period on Thursday, the Tanger Outlets Kanata website included a listing for Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, a luxury department store owned…
Eight closet spring cleaning tips
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jason Allen is a Stittsville-based expert on getting organized. He runs Tailored Living, a business that specializes in organization solutions. With warmer weather finally on the horizon and…
New fitness club could be coming to Carp Road
The City of Ottawa has received a site plan control application for 6303 Hazeldean Road (at Carp Road): “The application is proposing to revise two buildings previously approved, which have…
Ottawa Business Journal: “Local biz owner pushes for BIA”
From the Ottawa Business Journal: The 18 business improvement areas within Ottawa’s city limits currently span from Orleans in the east to Carp Village in the west, but Stittsville is…
New LinkedIn group for Stittsville and area business owners
We’ve started a new LinkedIn networking group for Stittsville and area business owners, entrepreneurs and managers. You can join us here. I’m also a member of a Wednesday morning networking…
Raising the bar: Hummingbird brings a global focus to chocolate production
QUICK FACTS Hummingbird owners Erica and Drew Gilmour (above) met eachother in Afghanistan and moved to Stittsville nine years ago. The chocolate is sold at about 30 stores in…
New barre fitness studio opens this spring on Stittsville Main
Ottawa’s iNSiDE Out STUDiO barre plans to open their second location on Stittsville Main Street in mid-April. The studio will be located at 1261 Stittsville Main in the same plaza as…
West Ottawa Board of Trade announces Peoples Choice Award Winners
The West Ottawa Board of Trade announced the winners in their 16th annual Peoples Choice Awards at a gala on Thursday night at the Brookstreet. The awards celebrate business excellence in…
Site Plan Control submitted for Keg restaurant at Huntmar and Hazeldean
The City of Ottawa has received a Site Plan Control application for a new Keg restaurant on the north-west side of Huntmar Road at Hazeldean.
Meet the family behind the new An Restaurant
(Photo: Taking a break from last minute preparations is Chef/Owner Cuong Tran (center) flanked by Ann Lu (left) and wife Kim Lu (right.) Photo by Barry Gray.) The long-awaited “An”…
Kanata councillor’s town hall includes presentations about upcoming developments near Stittsville
Kanata North councillor Marianne Wilkinson is holding a town hall meeting next week that includes a presentation about the plans for several new projects just north of the Queesnway near…