Kanata, Ontario
Kanata is the rare Canadian district where the largest landlord publishes its own building list and the smallest landowner is the Crown: KRP Properties, part of Wesley Clover International Corporation, states that it owns, develops and manages all 30 of its buildings in Kanata North in-house, and its own portfolio page enumerates 28 of them at 2,677,128 rentable square feet — while the Directory of Federal Real Property records just five federal properties inside the former City of Kanata, 44.99 hectares and 1,875 square metres of floor space, three of the five being leases in KRP's own towers on Legget Drive. The City of Ottawa governs and assesses all of it, and Ontario will sell you one owner at a time for $37.10.
9 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 21 sources · 7 tier A · 2 tier B · prepared 2026-10-03
Kanata is not a municipality and has not been one since the 2001 amalgamation: the City of Ottawa governs, zones, assesses and bills every property here, and the city's own map service keeps "Kanata" only as one of eleven "Former Municipalities", while its municipal address register records Kanata as the Canada Post delivery name for addresses that sit in Wards 4 (Kanata North) and 23 (Kanata South). Ownership therefore answers to Ontario's land registry, which ServiceOntario describes as containing "the official records of property ownership and other legal interests such as mortgages, transfers and leases" across "more than 7.4 million parcels", with services "only available online" and a self-search for a fee. That fee is $37.10 for a copy of a parcel register including its first page, there is no bulk owner extract at any price, MPAC's assessed values sit behind login-only products and still rest on 1 January 2016 values for the 2026 tax year, and Ontario publishes no price-paid file — so a Kanata sale price exists only on the individual registered transfer.
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 555 Legget Drive, Towers A and B 555 Legget Dr, Ottawa (Kanata North) 125,269 RSF (Tower A) and 102,620 RSF (Tower B) |
Office | KRP Properties (Wesley Clover International Corporation) KRP's own site states "KRP Properties owns, develops, and manages all of its buildings in-house" and lists both towers at this address with those floor areas; its partners page states "KRP is proud to be part of Wesley Clover International, a global private investment management firm". The federal register independently shows Canada as a tenant here, not an owner: Public Services and Procurement Canada holds a 366 sq m "Lease or Licence" at 555 Legget Drive and Farm Credit Canada a 1,055 sq m one in Tower A. KRP's own head office is Suite 300, Tower B. |
Private company | —A |
| 350 Legget Drive 350 Legget Dr, Ottawa (Kanata North) 281,017 RSF |
Office | KRP Properties (Wesley Clover International Corporation) The largest single building on KRP's enumerated portfolio page, which gives 281,017 RSF total building area and 214,959 RSF available. Known locally as the Mitel building: the Ottawa Business Journal described 350 Legget Dr. as "the Mitel building" and Mitel's former headquarters in December 2018. The city's address register places it in former Kanata, Ward 4 Kanata North. Who holds registered title is not stated by either source and would cost $37.10 to establish. |
Private company | —A |
| 349 Terry Fox Drive 349 Terry Fox Dr, Ottawa (Kanata North) 248,586 RSF |
Office | KRP Properties (Wesley Clover International Corporation) Fully leased on KRP's own portfolio page (248,586 RSF building area, nil available). Ericsson appears in KRP's own tenant list on its home page. Confirmed inside the former City of Kanata and Ward 4 against the city's address register. |
Private company | —A |
| 515 Legget Drive 515 Legget Dr, Ottawa (Kanata North) 129,967 RSF |
Office | KRP Properties (Wesley Clover International Corporation) 129,967 RSF on KRP's portfolio page, 7,051 RSF available across three suites. The federal register records the Business Development Bank of Canada occupying 454 sq m here under a "Lease or Licence" as its "Ottawa West" office — the register's own proof that the Crown rents in Kanata rather than owning. |
Private company | —A |
| Brookstreet Hotel 525 Legget Dr, Ottawa, ON K2K 2W2 (Kanata North) 276 rooms and suites; over 30,000 sq ft of event space |
Hotel | Wesley Clover International Corporation Wesley Clover International lists Brookstreet Hotel in its own Hospitality and Entertainment portfolio, describing it as "Located in the heart of the Kanata North technology park" with "276 stylish guest rooms and suites" and "over 30,000 square feet of flexible event space". The street address is taken from the hotel's own site header. Wesley Clover describes the hotel as a portfolio investment; it does not use the word owner, and no register entry was obtained. |
Private company | —B |
| Canadian Tire Centre 1000 Palladium Dr, Ottawa (Kanata) |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it Home of the NHL's Ottawa Senators. The club's own site states that "The Ottawa Senators and ottawasenators.com are trademarks of Capital Sports & Entertainment Inc." — a trademark statement, not a statement of land ownership, and nothing opened for this record names the registered owner of the site. The city's address register puts 1000 Palladium Dr inside the former City of Kanata but in today's Ward 6 Stittsville; the arena sits on the east side of Huntmar Drive, which is the old Kanata boundary. A 1,000-acre land assembly by Terrace Investments Ltd. is described in a 2017 OBJ column whose author adds that "other people own those lands now". |
Not established | —A |
| Kanata Centrum (RioCan Kanata) Queensway Highway 417 at Terry Fox Drive, Ottawa (Kanata); 300 Earl Grey Dr 386,336 sq ft, 35 units |
Retail | RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust Listed in RioCan's own leasing portfolio as "RioCan Kanata" at the "Intersection of Queensway Hwy No. 417 and Terry Fox Dr", Ottawa, 386,336 sq ft across 35 units, anchored by Loblaws, Chapters, Dollarama and Walmart. The page is headed "our properties" but does not use the word own and gives no ownership percentage, so this is tier B. riocan.com is 403 to curl and was read with WebFetch. 300 Earl Grey Dr was checked against the city's address register and falls inside the former City of Kanata. |
REIT | —B |
| Hazeldean Mall 300 Eagleson Rd, Ottawa (Kanata South) 223,000 sq ft, about 40 tenants |
Retail | The Regional Group of Companies The Ottawa Business Journal reported on 30 August 2019 that Regional Group had bought Hazeldean Mall, at the corner of Hazeldean and Eagleson roads in Kanata, from BentallGreenOak, which had held it for years; the mall was then 40 years old, 223,000 square feet, with about 40 tenants, and had carried 100,000 vacant square feet since Target left Canada in 2015. The price was not disclosed, so no acquisition price is recorded here. 300 Eagleson Rd is in the former City of Kanata, Ward 23. |
Developer | —A |
| Nokia Kanata North campus 570 and 600 March Rd, Ottawa (Kanata North) about 592,000 sq ft of new construction in phase one, on an 11-acre parcel within a 26-acre campus |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it OBJ reported on 27 November 2024 that Nokia had filed plans for roughly 592,000 square feet of new construction at 570 March Rd. — an eight-storey R&D engineering hub with 225,000 sq ft of office and a five-storey 345,000 sq ft laboratory fronting Legget Drive — alongside its existing 600 March Rd. facility, with up to about 2,160 residential units in later phases, and more than $340 million of investment between 2023 and 2027. Neither OBJ nor the 25 November 2025 Canada.ca release ("$40 million through the Strategic Response Fund's innovation stream") states who holds title. Both March Road addresses are inside the former City of Kanata. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
The interesting fact about Kanata's ground is how little of it the Crown holds. Ottawa as a whole is 8.8 per cent federal; the former City of Kanata is 0.33 per cent, and even that is two National Capital Commission parcels of Stoney Swamp rather than anything built. Everything else in Kanata North is private, and most of it belongs to one landlord. Ontario's Financial Information Return is filed by the municipality, and the municipality is the City of Ottawa: there is no Kanata, Gloucester or Stittsville return and no sub-municipal breakdown in it. Every figure below labelled Ottawa-wide is therefore a ceiling for the district, not a measurement of it. The federal figures below were produced by downloading the Directory of Federal Real Property in full on 3 October 2026 and testing every parcel's own latitude and longitude against the City of Ottawa's Former Municipalities polygon for Kanata, rather than matching on a municipality name — the register itself labels every one of these parcels "Ottawa", so a name match would have found nothing at all. Parcels are attributed by their registered coordinate, which is a point; a very large parcel straddling a boundary is credited whole to the district its coordinate falls in.
Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
At district scale Kanata's concentration is one name. Wesley Clover International Corporation holds, through KRP Properties and directly, the technology park's office portfolio, the Brookstreet Hotel and the Marshes Golf Club — office, hospitality and recreation on adjoining ground in Kanata North.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Wesley Clover International Corporation Wesley Clover's own site describes itself as "a global, private investment management firm" with "active interests in innovative new technology companies as well as real estate, hospitality and entertainment", lists Commercial Properties ("Through KRP Properties, Wesley Clover International plays a vital role in shaping the Kanata North business community"), the Brookstreet Hotel and the Marshes Golf Club ("Nestled in the heart of the Kanata North technology park"), and gives its own head office as 390 March Road, Suite 110 — itself a KRP building. 320 Terry Fox Dr, the Marshes address, is inside the former City of Kanata. |
Private company | 30 commercial buildings (~3M sq ft), a 276-room hotel and an 18-hole golf clubA |
| National Capital Commission The only Crown-owned land in the former City of Kanata on the federal register, and the whole of it is unbuilt natural land: 13.88 ha and 31.11 ha of "Stoney Swamp Natural Lands", Primary Use "Parks and Recreation", nil floor area. |
Government | 44.99 ha across 2 Stoney Swamp parcelsA |
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Kanata's new houses come from the same half-dozen Ottawa and Toronto builders that build the rest of the city, but Ontario is unusual in letting you count them by community: the Home Construction Regulatory Authority licenses a separate numbered or named company for each subdivision, and publishes each one's possessions — freehold and condominium homes actually handed to a buyer. A licensee called Mattamy (Kanata West) Limited is therefore a direct count of Kanata homes in a way no municipal statistic is. Two warnings apply. First, the directory gives the licensee's registered address, not where the homes were built: Metric Homes (Ottawa) Inc. is registered in Kanata but at 4829 Abbott Street East, which the city's address register places nowhere near it. Second, the community name is the builder's own — Minto's Hazeldean licensee builds Potter's Key, whose Rouncey Road addresses carry Stittsville postal names but fall inside the former City of Kanata on the city's own boundary, all 196 of them.
| Name | Type | Possessions (cumulative, Ontario) |
|---|---|---|
| Mattamy (Kanata West) Limited Licensed since 6 May 2019, status Licensed, umbrella Mattamy Homes, registered in Toronto. All 577 possessions are freehold. The licensee name is Mattamy's own naming of its Kanata West community. |
Developer | 577A |
| Claridge Homes (Bridlewood Trails) Inc. and Phase 3 Two licensees, both Licensed, umbrella Claridge Homes, registered in Ottawa: Bridlewood Trails since 28 May 2012 with 332 possessions (260 freehold, 72 condominium) and Bridlewood Trails Phase 3 since 27 February 2020 with 212, all freehold. Bridlewood is verifiable ground: all 80 Bridlewood-named and 50 Stonehaven-named address points in the city register sit in the former City of Kanata, Ward 23. |
Family / private | 544 (332 and 212)A |
| Glenview (Kanata) Holdings Limited Umbrella Glenview Homes (Ottawa), licensed 9 January 2012, licence now Expired, registered in Ottawa. 338 possessions, all freehold. |
Family / private | 338A |
| Minto (Hazeldean) LP By its general partner Minto (Hazeldean) GP Inc., Licensed since 14 June 2024, umbrella Minto, registered in Ottawa; 221 freehold possessions. Hazeldean Road runs along the former Kanata-Goulbourn line; the Rouncey Road addresses in Minto's Potter's Key are Canada Post "Stittsville" and Ward 6 but all fall inside former Kanata. |
Family / private | 221A |
| Metric Homes (Ottawa) Inc. Licensed since 11 July 2016, registered city Kanata — but at 4829 Abbott Street East, which is not in Kanata. Included to show what the registered-address field is worth: 162 freehold possessions somewhere in Ontario, not necessarily any of them here. |
Private company | 162A |
| Uniform March Road Ltd. Licensed since 31 July 2023, umbrella Uniform Urban Developments, registered in Ottawa; 87 freehold possessions. All 23 March Valley Road address points in the city register are in former Kanata. |
Private company | 87A |
| Doyle Homes Ltd. Licensed since 20 October 2004, registered at 1525 March Valley Road, Kanata — an address the city register confirms is inside the former city. 51 freehold possessions. |
Private company | 51A |
| KRP Residential Inc. (Marshes Village) Licensed 28 June 2002, now Expired, registered at 555 Legget Dr., Unit 206 — KRP's own address. Operating name "Marshes Village". The directory records no possession figures for it, which is the normal outcome for a licensee that stopped before the 2016 reporting series begins. |
Private company | no possessions recordedA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
One landlord dominates Kanata and says so in writing. KRP Properties states on its own site that it "owns, develops, and manages all of its buildings in-house" and that it is "part of Wesley Clover International" — so the technology park's offices, its hotel and its golf club all sit in the same private portfolio, which is unusual in Canada at this scale. The two shopping centres belong to a REIT and an Ottawa developer. The Crown is a tenant, not a landlord. And the biggest recent Kanata-branded transactions are not in Kanata at all: Tanger Outlets Ottawa at 8555 Campeau Dr and the 163,000 sq ft Kinaxis headquarters at 3199 Palladium Dr, which Morguard Corporation bought from the Taggart Group for $64.5 million in August 2022, both carry Kanata postal addresses and sit in Ward 4, but both are west of Huntmar Drive and fall inside former West Carleton Township on the city's own Former Municipalities layer. They are excluded from this record for that reason.
| Name | Type | Floor area |
|---|---|---|
| KRP Properties (Wesley Clover International Corporation) KRP's own home page gives 30 buildings, 230 companies, 3 million rentable sq ft and 10,000 tenants; its portfolio page lists 28 buildings on Legget Drive, March Road, Terry Fox Drive, Hines Road, Innovation Drive and Solandt Road, every one of which the city's address register places inside the former City of Kanata. Largest: 350 Legget Dr (281,017 RSF), 349 Terry Fox Dr (248,586), 303 Terry Fox Dr (196,000), 390 March Rd (169,366), 340 Legget Dr (158,042), 2500 Solandt Rd (154,828). |
Private company | 30 buildings, about 3M rentable sq ft (28 enumerated at 2,677,128 RSF)A |
| RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust Both appear in RioCan's own leasing portfolio: RioCan Kanata at Highway 417 and Terry Fox Drive, anchored by Loblaws, Chapters, Dollarama and Walmart; RioCentre Kanata at Carling Avenue and March Road, anchored by Sobeys, Rexall, Dollarama, National Bank and LCBO. Neither page states an ownership percentage, and the RioCentre address was not resolved to a parcel, so its position relative to the former city boundary is not confirmed here. |
REIT | 386,336 sq ft (Kanata Centrum, 35 units) and 108,562 sq ft (RioCentre Kanata, 16 units)B |
| The Regional Group of Companies Bought from BentallGreenOak in a deal reported by OBJ on 30 August 2019; price not disclosed. Regional Group's vice-president is quoted on the purchase. Regional Group is also the umbrella behind eQ Homes and the Pathways licensees in the HCRA directory. |
Developer | 223,000 sq ft (Hazeldean Mall)A |
| Government of Canada The whole federal presence in the former City of Kanata, from the Directory of Federal Real Property. Three leases on Legget Drive (PSPC, Farm Credit Canada, Business Development Bank of Canada) and two unbuilt NCC Stoney Swamp parcels. There is no Crown-owned federal building in Kanata at all. |
Government | 1,875 m² leased in 3 Kanata North buildings; 44.99 ha of NCC landA |
| 700, 750, 770 and 800 Palladium Drive — owner not established OBJ named Cominar as the owner-manager of 700, 750 and 770 Palladium Dr and of the 100,000 sq ft 800 Palladium Dr then under construction, in a 14 December 2018 article; Ford took 62,700 sq ft at 700 Palladium and Calian 35,000 sq ft at 770. Cominar was taken private by a Canderel-led group on 1 March 2022 and the purchaser agreed to sell certain retail and office assets to Groupe Mach; mach.ca would not respond, and no opened source names the current owner of these four addresses. All four are inside the former City of Kanata. |
Private equity | about 100,000 sq ft (800 Palladium) plus three further buildingsB |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The registered owner of the Canadian Tire Centre site at 1000 Palladium Drive. The Senators' own site names Capital Sports & Entertainment Inc. only as a trademark holder; no opened source names a titleholder, and the parcel register costs $37.10 per PIN.
- The registered owner of the Nokia campus at 570 and 600 March Road. Nokia filed the site plan and broke ground, two governments named money, and nobody published the title. nokia.com's newsroom is 403 to automation.
- The current owner of 700, 750, 770 and 800 Palladium Drive. Cominar owned them in 2018 and was taken private in 2022 with retail and office assets going to Groupe Mach; mach.ca returned nothing.
- The text of the City of Ottawa Act, 1999 (S.O. 1999, c. 14, Sched. E), which dissolved the City of Kanata. Both ontario.ca/laws and canlii.org refuse scripts, so the 2001 amalgamation date in this record rests on the City of Ottawa's own Former Municipalities layer rather than on a statutory text that was opened.
- Any assessed value for any Kanata parcel, and therefore any highest-assessed-parcel figure. MPAC publishes no roll, its lookup is CAPTCHA-gated, and ottawa.ca returns an Incapsula shell.
- Any per-sale price with an address anywhere in Ontario. Consideration appears on the registered transfer instrument only, per parcel, at the fees in s2.
- RioCan's ownership percentage in Kanata Centrum and RioCentre Kanata, and the parcel RioCentre Kanata sits on. The leasing pages give no interest and only an intersection.
- Whether KRP's two unenumerated buildings (30 claimed, 28 listed) are in Kanata, and what they are.
- Whether any sitting member of Ottawa City Council holds property in Kanata relevant to a council decision. ottawa.ca was unreadable to a script and no conflict-of-interest registry was reached; nothing was established and nothing is alleged.
Sources
- Land Registry — "the official records of property ownership", more than 7.4 million parcels, "only available online" — ServiceOntario (Government of Ontario) · openA
- Bulletin 2026-04, Land Services Fee Changes effective November 2, 2026 — Schedule I: copy of parcel register, includes first page, $9.70 + $24.25 + $3.15 = $37.10 — Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Land Registration Services Branch · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — full XML dataset (custodian, interest type, land area, floor area, building count, parcel coordinates) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Former Municipalities / Anciennes municipalites — ArcGIS feature layer naming the eleven pre-2001 municipalities (West Carleton, Kanata, Goulbourn, Nepean, Gloucester, Osgoode, Rideau, Cumberland, Rockcliffe Park, Vanier, Old Ottawa) — City of Ottawa · openA
- Municipal Address / Points d'adresse municipaux — the city's address register, with CP_MUNICIPALITY (Canada Post delivery name) and WARD for every address point — City of Ottawa · openA
- The Assessment Cycle — "Property assessments for the 2026 property tax year will continue to be based on fully phased-in January 1, 2016 current values." — Municipal Property Assessment Corporation · openA
- Financial Information Return, FIR Data by Year, fir_data_2025.zip — Schedule 26A taxation and payments-in-lieu summary for "Ottawa C" — Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario) · openA
- Ontario Builder Directory — /api/builders (48,342 licensees) and /api/buildersummary?id= (possessions by licensee) — Home Construction Regulatory Authority · openA
- Population and Household Estimates by Ward, mid-2021 — ward populations and household counts — City of Ottawa · openA
- Greenbelt / Ceinture de verdure — the Greenbelt boundary polygon, 20,205.34 ha in eight features — City of Ottawa · openA
- robots.txt — "Disallow: /search", "Disallow: /listings/similar/sold/*", "Disallow: /listings/similar/rent/*" — HouseSigma · openA
- KRP Properties — "KRP Properties owns, develops, and manages all of its buildings in-house"; 30 buildings, 230 companies, 3M rentable sq ft; portfolio page enumerating 28 buildings with total building areas — KRP Properties · openA
- Wesley Clover International — Commercial Properties, Brookstreet Hotel (276 rooms, 30,000+ sq ft of event space) and Marshes Golf Club in the Kanata North technology park; "KRP is proud to be part of Wesley Clover International" — Wesley Clover International Corporation · openA
- Arena Hub — "The Ottawa Senators and ottawasenators.com are trademarks of Capital Sports & Entertainment Inc." — Ottawa Senators Hockey Club / NHL · openA
- RioCan Kanata — 386,336 sq ft, 35 units, Highway 417 at Terry Fox Drive; and RioCentre Kanata — 108,562 sq ft, 16 units, Carling Avenue at March Road — RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust · openB
- Regional Group buys Hazeldean Mall, looking to revitalize Kanata retail 'mainstay' (30 August 2019) — buyer, seller BentallGreenOak, 223,000 sq ft, about 40 tenants, price not disclosed — Ottawa Business Journal · openA
- Nokia unveils plans for first phase of new Kanata North campus (27 November 2024) — 570 and 600 March Rd, 592,000 sq ft phase one, 26-acre campus, $340M 2023-2027 — Ottawa Business Journal · openA
- Kanata North Business Association — "802 + companies", "63 k total jobs supported", "17.9 B generated in total economic output across Canada in 2025" — Kanata North Business Association · openA
- Calian, Mitel and Ford moves driving 'domino effect' in tight Kanata office market (14 December 2018) — Cominar at 700, 750, 770 and 800 Palladium Dr; 350 Legget Dr as "the Mitel building"; Kanata vacancy 6.2% in Q4 2018 — Ottawa Business Journal · openA
- Taggart sells new Kinaxis HQ to Morguard in $64.5M deal (10 August 2022) — 3199 Palladium Dr, 163,000 sq ft, five storeys — Ottawa Business Journal · openA
- Government of Canada showcases partnership with Nokia to expand Canada's leadership in 5G research and development (25 November 2025) — "$40 million through the Strategic Response Fund's innovation stream" — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · openA