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Open house for the co-housing curious

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Britt SantowskiMay 30, 2018

– from Ann, of the the Harbourside Cohousing community Invitation to our Open House – Sunday June 10th, from 1-3pm A couple of households are leaving – their homes are for sale. And we’re excited about the possibilities that newcomers … Continue reading →

REMINDER: Co-housing open house Sunday, June 10

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Britt SantowskiMay 30, 2018

– from Ann, of the the Harbourside Cohousing community Invitation to our Open House – Sunday June 10th, from 1-3pm A couple of households are leaving – their homes are for sale. And we’re excited about the possibilities that newcomers … Continue reading →

West Wind Harbour: Sooke’s Second Cohousing Development

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Britt SantowskiMay 16, 2017

–Odete Pinho A simple yet radical housing concept is growing in Sooke. People want to live in a caring and supportive community where they know their neighbours. Sounds great, but is that really possible? Where? And what does it look … Continue reading →

A second cohousing development springs up in Sooke: Introducing West Wind Harbour Cohousing

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Britt SantowskiOctober 11, 2019

Sooke Has a Second Cohousing Development: West Wind Harbour Cohousing When you envision your life as you grow older, do you believe you will be doing the same things and interacting with the same people that you do now? If driving … Continue reading →

Official opening of Harbourside Senior Cohousing, photo gallery

Posted on July 28, 2016 by Britt SantowskiApril 19, 2017

–Bob Stamp, photos by Britt Santowski (c) SPN British Columbia’s first senior cohousing community—and just the second in Canada—celebrated its official opening Thursday, July 28 2016, in Sooke.. Harbourside Senior Cohousing features 31 individual units plus a common house in … Continue reading →

Founding members wanted: New Cohousing Opportunity in Sooke

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Britt SantowskiApril 9, 2018

–Harbourside Cohousing Newsletter At Harbourside Cohousing we often hear, “There should be more places like this!” Here is an opportunity for you to make that wish come true. Andrew Moore and Margaret Critchlow have identified a spectacular, waterfront site in the … Continue reading →

Sooke’s best kept secret: A senior cohousing community with 31 units sets a Canadian standard

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Britt SantowskiSeptember 2, 2018

-All photos and text by Britt Santowski, SPN Everyone in Sooke knows a traffic circle was being constructed in the summer on 2015. But how many of us realized that 31 new units were being built in the core of Sooke, … Continue reading →

Sooke’s Harbourside Cohousing is going full steam ahead

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Britt SantowskiMarch 19, 2018

Sooke’s Harbourside Cohousing, a Canadian front-runner in senior cohousing, is moving full steam ahead. January 15 marked the completion as that was when their strata title was registered, and the issuing of all 31 units complete. Members began moving in that … Continue reading →

ICYMI: “My Last Big Adventure” … Harbourside, Sooke’s Senior Co-Housing project, hits the national airwaves

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Britt SantowskiApril 19, 2017

In case you missed it, the following aired on CBC radio on The Sunday Edition, on November 8 2015. Dateline: Sooke, British Columbia. A school bus driver, a mountain guide, a teacher, a hard living old DJ, several nurses, and an anthropologist – more than … Continue reading →