Bronson Place

Bronson Place is a great place to live! The apartment building is clean, well-maintained, the staff are always responsive and courteous. The location is great, the apartments are spacious with beautiful views all around. The amenities such as the gym, pool, convenience store and laundry room make living there very convenient. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at 440 Gloucester.

I've lived at Bronson Place for 6 years and have no complaints. The staff members are helpful, prompt, and kind. Most of my interactions over the years have been with Erica who has been wonderful. She has kept me informed and always has a smile on her face. The building is kept clean and maintenance requests are done in a timely manner. Rent is more than reasonable for downtown and utilities are included. The balconies are huge and the views are gorgeous. Yes, the building is older and has some quirks, but nothing that would make me not want to live here. The walls are solid and I rarely if ever hear any noise from neighbours. Underground parking, a convenience store on-site, and the gym are all great perks. The best thing for me though, is how supported I feel by the staff - it makes all the difference to live somewhere where you feel safe and comfortable. Thank you!!

We have been living in Bronson Place for three years. It was a great pleasure and peace of mind living there. If we want to live again in a rented apartment in Ottawa, certainly, our first choice is Bronson place. The building is very clean and spacious with reasonable monthly rent. The public area and amenities are cleaned frequently and well-maintained. The staff are always reachable, responsive, nice, and patient. Our great appreciation is to the manager Erica and her team, especially, Vijy. The supers, especially Ersan, are amazing. When the place needed repairs they fixed right away. I highly recommend the Bronson place as perfect place to live. Thank you again all for your excellent service!

I lived at Bronson Place for 23 years. I enjoyed living there. Erica is a fantastic manager and the Super Ersan is amazing. Polite, efficient and competent. Albert is constantly cleaning and always maintained the recycle area and has cleaned it up over and over and over and was always friendly. I had some usual issues over the years, including the ants, but it was fixed right away and I never had another problem. When the place needed repairs things were fixed right away. The team there now is wonderful and it is the perfect place to live.

I've been a tenant of Bronson Place for more than a year with no plans of moving any time soon, as the complex is within walking distance of any amenity you'd need, with the added benefit of a convenience store in the lower levels. It's pet friendly and within 200 meters of the Tech Wall dog park, allowing yourself to ease into the comfort of knowing you don't need to travel very far to ensure your pup can exercise and socialize. If this isn't already enough, you are only a short distance from the train that can take you to the Byward in two stops, or you can walk down the path that follows the Ottawa River without feeling like you might get lost so you can enjoy nature without the noise of traffic or construction.

Been here for over a year and have been pretty happy with it! Staff is good and the location is great: right by Chinatown and close to Little Italy and Byward Market as well. Great views from the balcony.

I love living here at Bronson Place. The building is very well located, they have many good amenities like convenience store very useful in the cold, laundry, pool.

I lived at Bronson Place for exactly 5 years. I got the apartment fairly quickly and was really happy with the included utilities and underground parking. This is an older building that is nice but kind of disheveled in a way. They mainly do small repairs instead of truly fixing things. For example, the apartments create a lot of humidity and they don't replace the windows. It appears they have been painting over damages to the walls including mold for decades. I discourage living here if you have a mold allergy which I discovered I have thanks to living here. More info about this at the end. The building is pet friendly but the neighbours are not neighbour friendly and allow their dogs to do their business right at the entrance, the administration had to put signs to try to curb this problem as it tracks inside the lobby in the winter with the snow. The walls are sound proof but the door is not, I can hear my neighbours down the hall and I can smell when my neighbour has a cigarette. I was able to minimize the smell by putting a strip along the door. Let's just say I'm glad the garbage shute was not on my end of the hall. They keep the building very clean otherwise, never had to deal with anything too crazy in terms of pests, just normal bugs you'd expect. They're pretty quick at repairing things and replacing broken items. The superintendents are always really helpful and the administration office replies really quickly. When I was robbed from the mail room, they caught the culprit right away and had my parcel retrieved. COVID RESPONSE: Bronson Place had masks signs go up in July for the elevators and limited the amount of people allowed. They started accepting email money transfer for rent and the employees wore masks if they needed to enter your apartment. However, that being said, Bronson Place decided to start exterior facing renovations in the fall even though almost everyone is working from home/expected to stay home. I had to endure hours on end of drilling on top of men looking into my apartment from the construction elevator. I was instructed to empty my balcony because of the construction debris covered my garden and objects but where am I supposed to put those in my 492 sq apartment? Bronson Place also allowed to have laundry prices go up during the pandemic. It currently costs $3 washer, $2,25 dryer. In a time when you should stay home and avoid going out, I felt taken advantage of since this was the best place for me to do laundry. When I requested the service elevator to move out, I was given 8-10am and told to give the keys by noon. I had to negotiate a better slot time and I don't know anyone who's able to move out completely in 2 hours. The scaffolding outside made it a nightmare for my rental truck and the administration office did not offer any alternative suggestions. This isn't in the management's control but in terms of location, it's right beside the Bronson center which attracts an odd crowd, I frequently heard people yelling outside and never felt safe outside after dark. I'd rate it 4 stars as I did enjoy living here, regardless of the mold, but I have to remove another star for the construction year during covid. How am I supposed to feel comfortable and normal in my apartment when it's constantly drilling outside and I can't open my windows for fear of dust coming in? I'm in meetings for work throughout the day and the drilling was so loud it could be heard by my coworkers. This is not a place where you can live for a long time because of the mold that gets worse every winter because of the crazy amount of water created by the condensation. I had to keep towels by the windows so the water wouldn't run down into the sockets below. When I asked the superintendent early on about this, he told me it's normal, the building is old.

I believe this place has changed hands a few times since I lived there. The latest manager, Erica, was an absolute pleasure to deal with. She was very accommodating, and I never felt like I had to worry when approaching her or bring up any concerns I may have had. All issues were handled promptly and swiftly by the superintendent as well, who was also very kind and eager to help. People regularly leave free things like movies, books, and more in the mail room, which is awesome, and the tenants are generally quite friendly. I definitely recommend Bronson Place, and only moved due to changes in personal circumstances, nothing to do with the building or staff. The balconies are also enormous and most are at least partially sheltered, which is great if you like sitting outside!

Good management, attentive and helpful Nice buildings. VJ, Erica and Erzan and Alberto. Thanks’ team Yas