NEPEAN
Ottawa's thriving East Urban Community!
NEPEAN
AT A GLANCE
Nepean is home to several high-tech industry leaders such as Nortel Networks, JDS Uniphase and Gandalf Technologies. The former city hall, Ben Franklin Place located in Centrepointe now serves as a government office & client service centre, as well as a branch of the Ottawa Library, and home to the Centrepointe Theatre.
Nepean is just slightly west of the centre of Ottawa. Nepean is the home to Algonquin College and Centrepointe Theatre as well as the Nepean Sportsplex.
The Nepean area became a part of Ottawa in 2001. Before that, it was a separate municipality. There are a significant number of different neighborhoods in Nepean, including Rideau View, Hog's Back, Mooney's Bay, Skyline, and Fisher Heights. You'll also find Fisher Glen, Carleton Heights, and Parkwood Hills there. Most of the neighborhoods are small, and they're home to mature landscaping and older housing options that have been well cared-for. Other neighborhoods in the Nepean area include City View, Meadowlands, Ryan Farm, and Crestview, along with Woodroffe and Merivale. There are a few newer communities, as well.
With such a large number of great neighborhoods in the area, you can find a place that you really love and that feels like home, so you can start the next chapter of your life.
Schools
Bayshore Public School
Bells corners Public School
Bell High School
St.Gregory School
St. Emily School
St. Paul High School
École Secondaire Catholique Pierre-Savard
Algonquin College
LISTINGS
IN ORLEANS
Bayshore
On the far west end of the city, in the Nepean area of Ottawa, you'll find the Bayshore neighborhood. Bayshore Mall and The Coliseum movie theater are both located there, and they're among the largest of their kind in the city. You won't be at a loss for great movies to see and plenty of shopping to do. You can also find other small, local shops throughout the neighborhood, along with grocery stores and professional services. That makes things very convenient, since you don't need to travel far to get items for your home, do some window-shopping, or find excellent entertainment options.
Cedar Hill/Orchard Estates
Cedarhill Estates can be found in the Nepean area of Ottawa, just ten minutes to the south of Kanata and immediately northwest of Barrhaven. It was originally built to be a golf community with the majority of the homes there backing onto the Golf and Country Club. It's a semi-private course, and among the best in the Ottawa area. The original plan was for it to be a nine-hole course, but it was expanded three years after it was built to become an eighteen-hole course. With the open areas along the expanded course, there was plenty of room for more homes. That allowed for neighborhood expansion.
Centrepointe
Centrepointe is one of the newer neighborhoods in the Nepean area of Ottawa. It's a residential subdivision on the southwest side of the city, and building started there in 1985. Originally it was all farmland, until the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation purchased the land. They eventually sold it to the Minto Corporation, which was one of the largest housing developers in Ottawa. From that point, single family homes, townhouses, and upscale estates were built. That gives people looking for a place to live some options for housing when they consider the Centrepointe area, so they can get what they like and feel at home there.
City View/Skyline/Fisher Heights/Parkwood Hills
Fisher Heights is a great little neighborhood, located in the Nepean area of Ottawa. If you're looking for a quiet, lovely place with a cozy, small town feel, it may be perfect for you. Even though it feels peaceful and removed from everything, it's actually only minutes away from all the amenities you could want and need. That gives you the best of both worlds and lets you focus on the kinds of things that really matter to you. That could be family, work, gardening, recreation, or anything else, but finding the right community where you feel a sense of belonging can make all the difference.