282 rental townhomes in Vanier, for the life that usually waits for a mortgage. Drink your coffee on the steps. Take them two at a time. Learn the neighbours' names. First doors open 2027.
Join the waitlistMost of what rents around here is somebody's tired walk-up, or a condo the owner might sell next spring. Baribeau is neither: purpose-built rental, new from the studs out, owned and managed by the people who built it. Nobody is selling this home out from under you. Paint the wall. Stay ten years.
Not a courtyard behind a gate: parkland conveyed to the City in the approved plan, extending St. Ambroise Park along the homes' southern edge. Frost mornings, chalk summers, maple falls: Saturday soccer, first-snow photos, the long way home the dog insists on. Grass at the end of your street, for everyone, forever.
Stylized from the approved plan (Hobin A1.01, stamped Aug 2026), not to scale.
Three sizes of the same idea: a home that is yours from the sidewalk in.
Every home is one 4.5-metre bay deep: the window wall at the quiet end, your door at the other, nothing wasted between. Reconstructed from the approved drawings; final plans reach the waitlist first.
The proof is not our word. The City of Ottawa's own register shows 26 development applications within a 20-minute walk of this block: the Beechwood cluster, Montreal Road, a fresh 2026 filing on Selkirk, a thirteen-storey permission on Bradley. Money this patient does not gather around a place that is staying the same.
Real geography: streets, river and parks © OpenStreetMap contributors; every dot a real application on the City of Ottawa register, plotted at its filed address. North is up.
That was the life. This is the math, stated as directly as we can, and where a number is not final, it says so instead of pretending.
| Home | Size | Rent | First availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | ~40 m² · ≈430 sq ft | from $1,5XX, set at release | Building 9 · target 2027 |
| One bedroom | ~50 m² · ≈540 sq ft | from $1,8XX, set at release | Building 9 · target 2027 |
| Two bedroom | ~75 m² · ≈810 sq ft | from $2,2XX, set at release | later phases · 2028 |
*What the dates mean: the site plan is approved and Building 9's permit is filed; construction timelines shift, and we will not promise a month until we can keep it. Rents marked "set at release" are placeholders from today's Vanier market; final pricing comes with the first release, waitlist first. Parking is a separate monthly line; homes are priced as homes. No key deposits; nothing beyond Ontario's standard rules.
Thirty-six households get to be first. Floor plans, final pricing and move-in dates reach the waitlist before anything is public: one email at release, nothing else. In five years everyone will say they saw Vanier coming. You actually will have.