E-commerce fulfillment in Ottawa.

Ottawa sits between Toronto and Montreal on the Highway 416 and 417 corridors and anchors distribution for Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais. For a brand with customers in the capital region, fulfilling from Ottawa shortens local delivery and keeps those orders out of the longer zones that a GTA node would add. Brands with national volume usually run Ottawa as a regional node alongside a larger site, not as their only one.

Costs sit between the prairie markets and the GTA. Pick-pack at $2.00 – $3.75 per order is higher than in Winnipeg or Edmonton, and warehouse space runs $1.15 – $1.65 per sq ft per month all-in with industrial vacancy at 3 – 5%. Tight vacancy means a shared fulfillment facility is usually quicker to start than a leased building.

Network facilities are in Ottawa South and Nepean (3 facilities, about 280,000 sq ft), Gloucester and Ottawa East (3 facilities, about 260,000 sq ft), and Kanata and Stittsville (2 facilities, about 180,000 sq ft). Nepean and Gloucester have the most availability, and Kanata carries a premium for its proximity to the tech corridor. Standard e-commerce deployments go live within 48 hours of agreement, with storefront integration and receiving configured before inventory arrives.