Timbercreek builds resort-style apartments in South Ottawa
A South Ottawa neighbourhood is about to see a serious intensification as a result of Timbercreek’s revitalization of its extensive portfolio in the area. Construction is already well underway as Timbercreek replaces a block of 80 older townhomes – now demolished – with three, six-storey multi-residential buildings in its Herongate apartment complex. The site, at the corner of Heron Road and Sandalwood Drive, will contain 348 units as well as some ground-floor retail built over a podium garage. The name for the new complex has yet to be revealed. The four acres on which the project sits, acquired by Timbercreek in 2013, was previously occupied by some of the oldest townhomes in the neighbourhood. The three new buildings will contain about 120 apartments apiece. Plans to have the complex open by spring 2019 are “on budget and on schedule” according to Greg Rogers, Timbercreek’s senior vice-president of development. “It’s as much as you could hope for on any big proj