City Centre tenants given 2 weeks to move out

The Ottawa Tool Library and several other tenants under sublease to Makerspace North at Ottawa’s City Centre have less than two weeks to find new homes.

City Centre’s landlord posted notices on the tenants’ doors on Thursday giving them just 14 days to vacate.

“We had no inkling this was coming. Zero,” said Bettina Vollmerhausen, founder of the non-profit Ottawa Tool Library (OTL), one of the subtenants being evicted.

Makerspace North was founded in 2015 as “a community hub and startup incubator.” According to the non-profit’s website, the 20,000-square-foot space has been home to some 100 subtenants, from woodworking shops to product developers.