{"id":1566,"date":"2015-06-29T01:28:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T05:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2017-06-05T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T05:22:12","slug":"welcome-to-whitby-a-town-ready-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/welcome-to-whitby-a-town-ready-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Whitby, A Town Ready to Grow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"uk-h5\">Haven\u2019t been to Whitby yet? It\u2019s a great family community that is situated along the shores of Lake Ontario, and is adjacent to both Pickering and Oshawa, and is only 48 km to Downtown Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s a town poised for big things.\u00a0 Most notably, there are two new GO stations planned, and the 407 extension is well under construction.\u00a0 It\u2019s slated for completion in the coming months, bringing with it, greater accessibility to the rest of Durham and the GTA beyond. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With large scale sports complexes such as the Iroquois Park Sport Centre, Ajax Sportsplex, and the Whitby Civic Rec Complex, 125 parks and 950 acres of parkland and nature trails including the Heber Down Conservation Area, two downtowns (including the historic Village of Brooklin), ample shopping, Whitby is ready for the new home developments that are coming in 2016 and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Whitby also boasts a strong business community and many opportunities for new residents.\u00a0 Durham College Whitby Campus is here, as well as a large GO Transit Maintenance Facility, and commercial development opportunities. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Arts &amp; Culture, Whitby features its own live theatre, The Courthouse Theatre, plus The Station Gallery and the Whitby Museum, and numerous local events all summer long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Whitby Meadows is also central to 3 golf courses: Deer Creek Golf &amp; Country Club, Lindebrook Golf Course, and Carruther\u2019s Creek Golf &amp; Country Club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you love waterfront, you\u2019ll love Whitby.\u00a0 With a beautiful harbour front with the iconic white sails floating by, residents can while away a sunny day cycling along the Whitby section of the famous Waterfront Trail spans an amazing 1400 km from end to end!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finally, Whitby is also home to OPUS Homes\u2019 first new home community, Endeavour.\u00a0 Located on Endeavour Court, just a few kilometres from Whitby Meadows, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/homes-gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Endeavour<\/a> showcases the exquisite quality that our clients have come to expect from OPUS Homes. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For further details about new homes in Whitby Meadows, and to be kept up to date, we encourage you to register today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Haven\u2019t been to Whitby yet? It\u2019s a great family community that is situated along the shores of Lake Ontario, and is adjacent to both Pickering and Oshawa, and is only 48 km to Downtown Toronto. It\u2019s a town poised for big things.\u00a0 Most notably, there are two new GO stations planned, and the 407 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/welcome-to-whitby-a-town-ready-to-grow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to Whitby, A Town Ready to Grow!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opus-homes","category-whitby-meadows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opushomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}