Glebe Report

The day before the opening, as I sat chatting about Whole Foods, I asked Lisa Slater, “Why Ottawa?” Slater said the company had done market research to find the right location for expansion before settling on Ottawa. “It was a combination of landlord and market.” Ottawa’s population is well educated and has a reasonably high income. Now, people are more aware of the connection between food, health and the total well-being of a person.

Lansdowne continues to make headlines this month. Check out the coverage of the Urban Park grand opening, the Princess Patricias re-dedication ceremony, and the return of the Panda Games.

It’s the name on everyone’s lips this summer: Lansdowne.
With an Open House that happened on July 6 and several sold-out home games for both football and soccer, the atmosphere surrounding Lansdowne was certainly one of excitement and anticipation over these past few weeks.

By Joe Scanlon The return of football to Lansdowne Park – under the new name of Redblacks – brings back many memories, not just of the Rough Riders and not even just of football. Football at Lansdowne back in the day Between 1943 and 1947, there were two football teams in Ottawa – the Rough [...]

By Kendra Lee The Ottawa Fury, Ottawa’s soccer club, opened their new stadium, TD Place, in style on July 20. They hosted their first home game in the new stadium in front of 14,593 fans, making history by breaking the all-time attendance record for the North American Soccer League (NASL)! The game was against the [...]

The stands at the Lansdowne TD Place stadium were filled to capacity with pumped football fans on July 18, the first home game of the newly minted Ottawa Redblacks CFL team. While Glebites were alive to the many possibilities for traffic and parking nightmares, it seems that (with the significant exception of the Lakeside situation) [...]

By Clyde Sanger Well now, a new era is beginning for us Glebites. With all the frou-ha-ha attending the opening of new buildings at Lansdowne, the stadium with the enormous scoreboard, Bank Street’s twin towers (perhaps not a very good term) and the stores that will someday open, there is one thing missing: a bit [...]