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The Ottawa Bagelshop and Deli, a linchpin West Wellington business that has catered to food lovers for 35 years, is to undergo a renovation this spring that will cut its 7,000-square-foot space in half.

“We will be right-sizing … It’s time for a change,” owner Liliana Piazza said Thursday.

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She was glad to put to rest rumours that her business was closing outright. The Bagelshop, Piazza said, plans to stay open during the renovations, which will likely begin in May and last until middle of the summer.

“We will still have everything we currently offer. It will just be in a smaller space,” Piazza said, explaining that the half of her business that is a restaurant will be renovated and leased to a new tenant, while the other half will be renovated to include a smaller restaurant.

“The oven’s not moving. That’s the one thing that stays the same,” she said.

Piazza, whose family owns the Bagelshop’s property, said the prospective tenant is not confirmed, but that it would be a “very complementary small business.”