Neighbourly Ottawa – My Hint about Hintonburg

Posted on February 11, 2008 
Filed Under Ottawa Neighbourhoods, Valerie Zinger

According to the April 2007 enRoute Magazine, Hintonburg is one of the top ten emerging neighbourhoods in Canada.

Opportunity knocks. This is a neighbourhood undergoing change.

Where. Hintonburg is bordered by the O-Train line on the east, the transitway on the north, Holland Avenue or Island Park Drive (depending on who is doing the definition) on the west and the Queensway / 417 on the south.

Get back to Hintonburg. You can get home from downtown in less than 10 minutes by car, be back from your cottage in the Gatineau cottage country by crossing the Pont Champlain / Island Park Drive bridge or crossing the Pont Chaudière, a little further east. If you are out in Kanata or in Orleans, your exit is at Parkdale and minutes later, you are home. Wellington, the main street through Hintonburg brings you directly back from the Parliament Buildings when you go west and back from Westboro when you go east. This is a great location, accessible from all parts of the city.

Be ready. Hintonburg is at the edge of revitalization. Aaccording to the April 2007 enRoute Magazine, Hintonburg is one of the top ten emerging neighbourhoods in Canada. Old houses, new condos, infill housing, the Parkdale Market, the Urban Element and the Great Canadian Theatre Company provide just some of the mix – old and new.

Now serving 7,500 people. The Hintonburg Community Association is active and ensuring that the needs of the community are being addressed. Residents of Hintonburg live in single family, multiple family homes, condos and apartments. This has been a mature stable area since it was established in the late 1800s and now finds itself going through change. The growth in demand for condos in the urban areas has resulted in construction on available land in Hintonburg. People are looking to move to Hintonburg.

Like the Glebe, housing will be upgraded as young professionals and people in the arts see the opportunities to renovate and make this community their home.

Take a look at Hintonburg (MLS® Map Districts 4202 and 4203).

Valerie Zinger ~ Ph: 613-723-5300 ~ vzinger@royallepage.ca

 

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