Lena Crescent Apartments #3 | 43 m | 14 fl

[UrbanWaterloo]

Lena Crescent Apartments #3
Lena Crescent & Conestoga Boulevard, Cambridge
www.joylife.ca

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=Lena+Crescent+%26+Conestoga+Boulevard,+Cambridge ,+on&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Conestoga+Blvd+%26+Lena+Crescent,+Cambridge, +Waterloo+Regional+Municipality,+Ontario&gl=ca&ei=cr-lTM3tCIienweU4qmRAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CBcQsAUwAA&t=h&z=16

[UrbanWaterloo]

Thanks to cambridge-city-boy (http://www.wonderfulwaterloo.com/member.php/3-cambridge-city-boy) who sent me these photos.


September 30, 2010

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[Urban_Enthusiast86]

Wow. Wasn't expecting Auburn to fit another one in that space. I thought they would build on the other side of the Lena Crescent. Looks like that area is reaching Fairview Mall type densities.

[metropolis]

I expect the rentals in Uptown Waterloo on the BarrelYards property will look just like those :(

[waterloo_local]

I don't think Auburn is building this particular building. The own the one on the other side even though they all look alike.

[Spokes]

I have a feeling metropolis is probably right. Maybe they'll add a little bit to it, but probably not too much.

[UrbanWaterloo]

October 22, 2010

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[panamaniac]

The word "bleak" comes to mind.

[DHLawrence]

The good thing about living in a building like that is that you don't have to look at it when you're inside.

Somebody please take a bulldozer to the east side of Hespeler Road from Bishop to Can-Amera...that entire strip could be flattened and rebuilt without harming anyone. Put parking garages behind Cambridge Centre, knock down all the buildings, and start over.

[van Hemessen]

Bulldozer? Nothing short of strategically placed C-4 can save that area.

[DHLawrence]

Nah, most of it is parking lot. Cambridge Centre could linger for a while--maybe give it a bit of an Eaton Centre makeover and turn the laneway into a proper road. Maybe put some commercial/retail in front and make "Cambridge Centre" more of a corporate centre rather than just another mall. Most of the buildings between Dunbar and Can-Amera are empty so they won't require much power. And the Flea Market will probably cave in if someone blows at it. That's the best place on Hespeler Road to start the revolution; there's so much to work with--most of it tarmac!

[UrbanWaterloo]

October 30, 2010

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[UrbanWaterloo]

This project appears to have stalled over the winter...


February 25, 2011

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[UrbanWaterloo]

After a winter stall, construction has picked up again. Now on the 4th floor...


July 13, 2011

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I hope sidewalks are in the works for this side of the street. The 'trail' is a disaster with the foot-high weeds.
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[UrbanWaterloo]

11th Floor - October 5, 2011

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[UrbanWaterloo]

14th (& Final) Floor - December 20, 2011

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[UrbanWaterloo]

Not many exterior changes in the past month and a half...

February 5, 2012

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[UrbanWaterloo]

June 20, 2012

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[metropolis]

The "tower in the park" concept has been panned for nearly a decade now as a failure of post war urban planning with cities from Toronto to New York city trying to undo the lack of community fabric these sorts of projects cause.

In Waterloo Region however we continue to build projects like this.

Am I missing something?

[Lugnut]

The "tower in the park" concept has been panned for nearly a decade now as a failure of post war urban planning with cities from Toronto to New York city trying to undo the lack of community fabric these sorts of projects cause.

In Waterloo Region however we continue to build projects like this.

Am I missing something?

Here in the Region of Waterloo we lag behind many places in regards to many things. This shouldn't be anything new.