SEPTEMBER 2025 quickly, growing in size and gaining prestige. After that first building – a one-storey retail plaza with a total of 20,000 square feet on Clyde Avenue – they acquired Mercury Court, a beautiful 75,000-square-foot heritage building on the corner of Dalhousie and Rideau. They ended up investing heavily in that building, adding modern technology and improving the energy-efficiency while still retaining the building’s historic charm. For their efforts, they received an award in 2022 at The Outstanding Building of the Year (TOBY) Awards, held by the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Ottawa. In 2019, Golpro Holdings also acquired 207 Queen Street, the Trafalgar building located on the corner of Queen and Bank. This 115-year-old five-storey property has gone through similar upgrades as Mercury Court. Over the following years, the company continued to acquire and rehabilitate commercial and office buildings throughout Ottawa. Eventually, they also entered the multi-residential sector, picking up their first multi-unit (55 units) apartment building at 305 Metcalfe in the city’s Golden Triangle neighbourhood. They then entered the industrial market with 830 Campbell Avenue, a one-acre property in the commercial portion of Carling Area. Then COVID hit. “We slowed down after 2021 and focused on our existing buildings,” Bill says. “We focused on helping our tenants out through the pandemic. And I’m proud to say, we didn’t lose any of our tenants. They all stayed with us.”
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