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A year after sales launched at Wateridge Village, the former Canadian Forces Base Rockcliffe is starting to look like home. Residents are moving in, two new parks are already complete and even OC Transpo bus service is in place.

Meanwhile, the Canada Lands Company has issued a new invitation to bid on the remaining parcels of land in the project’s first phase before turning its sights to the next phase, senior director of real estate Jean Lachance said.

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Details were unveiled Jan. 29 and developers have until March 29 to submit bids for the land east of Codd’s Road in what Lachance calls a “village within a city.”

Three builders – Uniform Urban Developments, Claridge Homes and Tartan Homes, the latter in partnership with the Algonquins of Ontario – were the first to start building on the 310 acre-site overlooking the Ottawa River.

They’re constructing 214 singles, semis and townhouses west of Codd’s Road. Two-thirds are sold and about 40 homeowners have moved in with the balance expected by this summer.