02-02-2018, 11:05 AM
(02-02-2018, 10:48 AM)panamaniac Wrote: [ -> ]What a shame.
Do you think it has significant architectural value? It doesn't... it has history, but in its current condition it has no architectural value.
(02-02-2018, 10:48 AM)panamaniac Wrote: [ -> ]What a shame.
(02-02-2018, 11:05 AM)urbd Wrote: [ -> ](02-02-2018, 10:48 AM)panamaniac Wrote: [ -> ]What a shame.
Do you think it has significant architectural value? It doesn't... it has history, but in its current condition it has no architectural value.
(02-02-2018, 11:16 AM)panamaniac Wrote: [ -> ](02-02-2018, 11:05 AM)urbd Wrote: [ -> ]Do you think it has significant architectural value? It doesn't... it has history, but in its current condition it has no architectural value.
Architectural? Probably not. Historical/industrial heritage? I can think of no more important site in Kitchener. To save nothing of, for example, the bit fronting Courtland that dates (I think) back to the 1920s seems to me to be a needless loss of local historical memory. It is what it is, but I regret it.
That said, I like the idea of the park stretching the full depth of the site- seems like it will follow the course of Shoemaker Creek, which I hope will be uncovered.
(02-02-2018, 11:16 AM)panamaniac Wrote: [ -> ](02-02-2018, 11:05 AM)urbd Wrote: [ -> ]Do you think it has significant architectural value? It doesn't... it has history, but in its current condition it has no architectural value.
Architectural? Probably not. Historical/industrial heritage? I can think of no more important site in Kitchener. To save nothing of, for example, the bit fronting Courtland that dates (I think) back to the 1920s seems to me to be a needless loss of local historical memory. It is what it is, but I regret it.
(02-02-2018, 10:10 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: [ -> ]CBC has an image of what is being demolished:
Saving the more "modern" buildings seems strange when the current in thing is brick and beam.
Random useless fact: there is a miniature replica of the grey brutalist-ish building in the Children's Safety Village on Maple Grove (it is actually pretty eerie how similar the safety village is to our actual community - right down to the single unprotected bike lane to nowhere).
(02-03-2018, 12:37 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: [ -> ]The safety village lane:
Reminded me of the Park St lane:
(02-03-2018, 01:02 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: [ -> ](02-03-2018, 12:37 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: [ -> ]The safety village lane:
Reminded me of the Park St lane:
Is that an actual bicycle lane, or is it like the looks-like-a-bicycle-lane-but-really-is-just-extra-space-paved-for-no-apparent-reason on King St. that runs part of the way between Union and Allen?
(02-03-2018, 02:10 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: [ -> ](02-03-2018, 01:02 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: [ -> ]Is that an actual bicycle lane, or is it like the looks-like-a-bicycle-lane-but-really-is-just-extra-space-paved-for-no-apparent-reason on King St. that runs part of the way between Union and Allen?
Actual lane:
Enough digressions though and back to re-development talk.
(02-03-2018, 08:07 AM)jamincan Wrote: [ -> ]There are a few things outside of Auburn's capabilities, but that would improve the development and overall neighbourhood a lot.
First, it would be nice if Kent was extended to Heiman somehow. It would offer a nicer alternative to Ottawa for crossing the tracks for people in the neighbourhood immediately west of the site, and the development will be offering quite a few retail amenities that would be benefit from the access.
Second, it would be nice if the City of Kitchener took this opportunity to fully develop a few greenways. Properly connecting the Shoemaker Creek Greenway between Meinziger Park and the IHT with a MUT would be an important link, which the development would open up, in part. A second link from the IHT up at Madison down to this development would also be nice. I'm pretty sure that a trail could fit under the Stirling Bridge next to the tracks.