In the Beginning...


Black Sheep Developments is a boutique Real Estate developer in Ottawa in the midst of a rather interesting mixed-use facility in Orleans.  It's a story worth telling and a story worth reading about....In early 2016, the Orleans-based Tumblers Gymnastic Club came to us with a problem—not only did they need a new facility but they needed a better facility to help them grow their membership and program base. Originally, the facility would have simply housed Tumblers as a single tenant. Unfortunately, this “single-tenant” business model didn’t present itself with overly attractive numbers nor did it offer Tumblers a lot of value outside of more square footage. In fact, using this particular model, we didn't have a project at all.   We had a money loser!  What would we do? Would we continue to plug away at the project or would it be better to simply give up, tell our client we couldn't help and move on?  Stay tuned to find out why there was only one answer..