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That really depends on whether the community expresses its concerns sufficiently loudly.

Folks, this is the time to speak your mind about the need to do city-building rather than just building, to...

I stand corrected!

I'm not sure who owns it, but I believe it is used by employees of Grand River Hospital. Possibly also by Sun Life employees?

Not on King Street downtown, and especially if you do this only between intersections. Whenever King Street is busy, car traffic at a red light easily backs up all the way to the next light - there's...

I'd bet on the latter. In addition, malls (at least here) seem to be focusing very heavily on the kind of stuff for which you may want to visit multiple stores of the same genre in one trip -...

That's uptown Waterloo. Downtown Kitchener does indeed not have any burger-specific places.

According to the site, it's going into 279 King St W, which is the address for the HSBC building. I assume it'll take the whole ground floor.

I would rather if you were correct, so please let us know if you can find a source for the above!

The most significant part of that story is that some councillors do actually take transit. Given that most of them have to juggle their regular job in addition to Council duties and meetings all over...

That's supposed to be some kind of modernist church, right?

I don't believe there are currently any plans to have food trucks except at City Hall -- where they will be Thursdays 11:30am to 2pm starting this week, according to @DTkitchener.

Did the same today - agreed. The only thing missing is some food trucks.

Calvin So is planning to do some counts of parking utilization in Waterloo's student areas, and he could use your input on buildings that would be useful to measure and information on the amount of...

It's fantastic to see the Tannery-centred tech companies discovering, updating, and filling up the more conventional office space downtown.

I think the Municipal Conflict of Interest abstentions on Waterloo City Council make the whole thing ridiculous. It's a testament to how well the LRT route covers the community that a majority of the...

I'm pretty sure it's not new...

And the trouble with any fare zones is that potential users have to think through the above. Do the benefits outweigh the increased user complexity?

I think it makes more sense to discount from the current quite-high cost for trips that are short. Taking the bus between Grand River Hospital and downtown Kitchener ought not to cost $2.30.

There's also Grand River Hobbies on Courtland just south of Conestoga Parkway.

And that's a crucial difference - you can, and are expected to walk between different stores. In a big box mall like SmartCentres or the Boardwalk, you have to get in your car to get from one store...

Anecdotally, I have heard that even the relatively small amount of parking at many of the student developments goes quite empty. I believe the developers of the Sage Condos have such figures handy.
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So. much. surface parking. That space ought to be a courtyard, or maybe even a third tower plus a courtyard.

The project has 1420 bedrooms, which are assumed to be occupied by students. Of those...

Go to the open house and make sure to show your support for them re-opening elsewhere? They seem interested in doing that.

Maybe the idea is that this is the new location for the sidewalk on University? And others will be moved further away from the road as well over time?

I was at Pitaway a couple of days ago. It was decent, though it looks like they were a bit overwhelmed by the huge lunch rush that the Duke Food Block was throwing at them.

I think there were some experimental techniques used in the King Street design, which may explain part of the issue.



That got eaten up by the snowplows, I think.

And that's what people do, until you need to be more specific. It's "the bus" until you need to say that it's GRT rather than Greyhound, or iXpress 200 rather than the 7. So in this case, it will be...

I think the idea is that Ion will represent the rapid, frequent-service network - starting with one line that's LRT and aBRT. What I would like to see is them retiring iXpress by upgrading every...

The reality of statistical variation is that a "normal" year will have months that are not representative of that normal. You need to have some actual statistics to really know that something has...

Well, it's a question of renewing the lease for N more years, or not. They chose not, but that doesn't mean they're done in uptown necessarily.

New Dominion Bakery, which has done wholesale and retail bread on Victoria St S, is closing this Sunday and the owners are retiring as they have sold the building. The zoning there is mixed-use,...

According to my conversation with the owner of Matter of Taste, the issue wasn't a rent increase but that the First Gulf properties are apparently on the market.

I think a fair number of people here would prefer for some potentially-urban sites like this to remain empty rather than being filled with a poor use of space. An empty lot could be developed in 5-10...

Ho hum, another launch... Community CarShare is launching in Guelph with three cars on May 1 - two downtown and one at the U of G. Details of locations and orientation sessions here.

In this case,...

Come on grocery store!

Probably rezoned and sold?

I assume you mean the current Waterloo City Hall? It's off on an edge of uptown, and feels inside and outside like just a generic office building, which for some reason has the offices of the city...

In a location like this, I would be thinking much taller, and probably involving a reworking of the ground floor as well.

There should be a huge goddamn fine for Polocorp Inc., to teach them and others a lesson. Unfortunately, what they get in reality is a clean slate that they can sell to whoever wants some nice,...

Yeah, they do low-rise but dense somewhat-urban residential rentals (with a proportion of subsidized units), which look quite decent and rarely have vacancies. Here's their site.

Based on how much I have heard about ridiculously high rents specifically in the Waterloo Town Square, my running theory is that First Gulf is charging far more than market rent for small tenants to...

I'm not sure whether this project has been mentioned elsewhere. There's an informal public meeting this coming Monday, April 22, and the only details I can find are in that notice. It's implementing...

Looks like the application is complete, and this is going to its informal public meeting on Monday, April 22. More details about the development are here.

I guess the shape is decent, but it's...

I don't think there is anywhere in the Region with bus service which requires more than two transfers from downtown Kitchener. And the only part of Cambridge for which you need two transfers is...

Please show some examples of these employers that pay for full-cost transit passes for every single one of their employees (which is what we're discussing), whether they use it or not.

I can...

Less per rider, but not less in absolute terms necessarily.



And why would employers do that? The U-Pass is a special deal that the majority of students have bought into - low price in exchange...

If you take ticket funds (current or future) and use them for capital, then you're going to need to replace those operational funds from somewhere. Given that transit operations, like road...

WaterlooNative, I don't know if you actually don't know the glaring difference, though I suspect you're just glossing over it. But those first electric and intercity railways were profitable, hence...

No, it isn't, as shown above. The consultant provides advice, but ultimately the Region implements the project and has to live with the results. In this case, the measly cost of $400K for...

That's not the reason. The reason is that downtown density is much more efficient than more sprawl in terms of amount of infrastructure required to service it, and it is more sustainable. It is not...