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I was in Ottawa, and barely felt it!

The fridge just started making a weird noise, and we attributed the floor shaking to that. Checked facebook half an hour later, and discover that it was an...

Interesting, I get no such feeling from Central Fresh. Sure, it's not some hyper-modern warehouse style grocery like the Ira Needles Sobey's, but it doesn't feel particularly out of its time.

Indeed, and I understand the point.
It's just that if I want to drive out to a mall, I'd prefer to drive to one that keeps me warm. At least downtown has the feature of being within walking...

Not a fan of these outdoor style malls... why should we subject ourselves to harsh weather while shopping for 6 months of the year? I've seen this concept work, but that's in decidedly warmer...

Downtown Crepes.
I'm pretty sure a number of forum-goers have been there by now. Here's a picture of a $7 crepe:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJ_MKUvCcAI9D91.jpg

Now, it's not that I'm not...

I took a walk down Lester yesterday, and snuck into the parking lot of one of the student buildings there to grab some shots of the rear of this deconstruction:

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The vacant lot, Orbit, and Liberty Tax are all appropriate locations for 4 storey streetwalls, with stepped back upper floors. There just has to be someone willing to spend the money.

Now that the workers are out of the way...

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Definitely does not look like a bus bay. Anyway, this is a minor stop. Seagram or Philip or Hazel would be sane places that would warrant bus...

There is no direct vehicular access to this site from University. All access is made from a new laneway connecting Lester and Sunview.

They've just laid the sidewalk in front of this building this past weekend.

In a very odd decision, they have decided to have the sidewalk detour as it passes in front. It moves about 3 feet...

There's a sign up on this building:



It's going to be a Taco Farm!!

Huh, that's new information!
I'd naturally assumed that the limit of electrification would be Mount Pleasant, being the end of the contiguous urban area.

Philip St between University and Columbia is again closed to through traffic. The water/sewer main work is likely proceeding for the southern half of the street now.

Nuts. I used to bike there in the summer to get bread on the weekends.

That's 12 stories, midblock on Albert/Hemlock between Hickory and University. (249, 251, 253 Hemlock Street + 250, 252, 256 Albert Street, roughly here)

Quite an interesting precedent. I didn't...

The view from UW Campus. The upper floors might get a very nice view of the length of the Trail. Or they're behind that tree.

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The view down the Laurel Trail from UW Campus.

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I hear that similar practices regularly happen at University Shops Plaza, leading to much of the turnover there.

Ah, yes. The zoning bylaw only requires 1 space per unit.

In this document:
http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresources/resources/business/Z-03-12justification_report_part2.pdf

you will find a...

So, who else is looking forward to the return of Liquidation World?!?

Correct, those are different vehicles (track gauge, width, length, LRT vehicles will be double-ended), however they will likely share some internal guts, and will have similar exterior styling.
We...

It's not the presence of snow, or of +20 degree days that boggles me.

It's the complete lack of seasonal weather that I'm aghast at.
Sure, we're on track to hit the normal April average high of...

Pictures galore to be found in this document:

http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresources/resources/business/Z-03-12justification_report_part4.pdf

The main entrance is curiously tucked away in...

Earlier in the thread:

Now that is one hell of an exaggeration.

Firstly, if it takes you "four bus transfers" (which I assume means 4 buses with 3 transfers,) to get to Kitchener Downtown, then it must take you 3 buses...

Hmm...



Well that answers that.

And two days later, we now have a forecast high of 18 degrees!

Toronto is currently seeing the correction from 4 decades of over-construction of Commercial in the core. It used to have a balance of residential and commercial, but after the subways came in,...

In a project as large as this, it takes a lot of manpower to put together a proper bid.
1) Bidders are pre-screened, to ensure that they all have the ability and experience to execute the final...

It's still snowing... :'(

Well if that map doesn't just say it all.

Without a longer term plan to wind down the outlet in the Shoppers, (or a huge, sudden, population growth in southeast downtown) the location was always...

No pictures in the thread yet, but there are lots in this document:
http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresources/resources/business/7_churchill_st_z12_06justificationrpt.pdf

Oops, that's the old...

Heh, not that McMullan's.

In context, I was talking about McMullan's on Highland. The shawarma place is in a neighbouring strip mall, midway between Patricia and Belmont, at 200 Highland Rd.

I suspect that competition from the huge amount of commercial that's opened up on Ira Needles has depressed sales for areas such as this.

I expect the Highland strip to be depressed for many...

See mpd's post on the bottom of the last page:

That said, I can see where these people are coming from.

For years through the 90s, many homes in this area turned into student housing thanks to the barriers to construction in the Northdale and...

If there's one demographic I don't want to live near, it's young families in starter townhomes.

It's got dedicated space for ground floor retail, which is better (or at least, more explicit) than most other projects of this type, so I'm generally in favour. Sure it's only for students, but at...

Not quite that spot. It's just to the north of that service road.

I work across the railway tracks from there, let me get a picture.

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Close up:
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The entertainment complex Bingeman's could be a venue for a Kitchener casino should council choose to attract one to the city, says the head of the venue.

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He said there needs to be...

Thankfully, that was only one of three courses that the Region has been working on, and was the one most expected to fail. They had to appeal back to the same court that made the decision in the...

The new grocery store going up in Campus Court plaza.
They are currently stocking the shelves.

Not quite legible in this photo, is the sign saying "3.14% discount everyday"

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In the "Alignment with Places To Grow" section:



New synergies, man!

I love the usage of the phrase "campus will bridge [Milton] with [the Greenbelt]", which is literally saying that they...

Heh, I don't think anyone was expecting anything other than a lukewarm response in the States.

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. I will have to take a look at this.

Holy moly, the daily dollars continue!
I was startled to notice I had $20 more than I was expecting. I didn't realize that the Daily Dollars were continuing through March.

Pre-BB10, I would just use Google Maps all the time.

Now that I'm on BB10, I'm at a bit of a loss, and haven't found as good a resource for transit directions. I tend to use the Google Maps...

It must have been nice out, because I was on the bus today, all I could do was stare out the window, watching our city thaw out of winter.

One thing I noticed was how the buildings on this...

That's excellent! It's nice to see King & University start to fill out with a variety of venues.

It's going to be boring for some time yet.
Even when they start digging, it's just going to look like standard utility work... because it's just going to be standard utility work to move it out of...