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  Thread: Ophelia (242-262 Queen St S) | 11 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Ophelia (242-262 Queen St S) | 10 fl | U/C
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsGWJX8XIAEqWgI?format=jpg&name=medium January 19, 2021 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtOaw4oXMAUXyEt?format=jpg&name=small Feb 2, 2021 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Et...
   samnabi Urban Areas 236 97,223 02-11-2021, 10:48 AM
  Thread: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
Post: RE: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
kwcc Wrote: (12-05-2020, 11:06 AM) -- I keep hearing that the City doesn't want to route the Cycling Grid down Gaukel (connecting existing Young Street cycle route to Victoria Park) because it will b...
   samnabi Urban Design 69 30,934 12-05-2020, 11:54 AM
  Thread: Ophelia (242-262 Queen St S) | 11 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 242-262 Queen St S | 10 fl | U/C
jeffster Wrote: (08-17-2020, 08:51 PM) -- This was meant for you: I was going to say that it looked familiar. You on the 7th floor? Gotta love the elevator in that place. And when it's out of ord...
   samnabi Urban Areas 236 97,223 08-17-2020, 11:16 PM
  Thread: Ophelia (242-262 Queen St S) | 11 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 242-262 Queen St S | 10 fl | U/C
They leveled out the ground a couple days ago. Lots of noise for all the surrounding high-rise neighbours but I'm happy to see this going ahead.
Photo samnabi Urban Areas 236 97,223 08-17-2020, 12:37 PM
  Thread: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
Post: RE: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
It's happening, folks – https://gaukel.ca/ > From September 26-29, Gaukel Street in downtown Kitchener will be transformed into a fun, people-focused space. Relax with friends at the patio tables, ...
   samnabi Urban Design 69 30,934 09-24-2019, 03:23 PM
  Thread: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | Complete
Post: RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C
Peeking up past the neighbours' roofline now.
  samnabi Urban Areas 239 230,830 05-22-2019, 01:10 PM
  Thread: Ophelia (242-262 Queen St S) | 11 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 242-262 Queen St S | 10 fl | Proposed
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-10-2019, 09:21 AM) -- Ugh, I don't like the way it looks crammed right into those houses. I also think there's some fuzzing with the elevation here, I seem to recall ther...
   samnabi Urban Areas 236 97,223 04-10-2019, 10:20 AM
  Thread: Ophelia (242-262 Queen St S) | 11 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 242-262 Queen St S | 10 fl | Proposed
Not sure I've seen this rendering before. Found it at the Downtown Urban Design Manual meeting. Interesting to note the 5 parking spaces on the edge of the driveway area. Also, the colours here lo...
 Photo samnabi Urban Areas 236 97,223 04-10-2019, 09:18 AM
  Thread: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
Post: RE: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-28-2019, 10:25 PM) -- Do you mean above Rhapsody, -- No, I'm talking about 19 Gaukel: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4505877,-80.4928527,3a,75y,134.19h,94.19t/data=!3m6!1...
   samnabi Urban Design 69 30,934 02-28-2019, 10:37 PM
  Thread: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
Post: RE: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
If anyone knows someone who lives at Heartwood Place (the small apartment beside North offices), I'd love to bring them into the discussion.
   samnabi Urban Design 69 30,934 02-28-2019, 09:53 PM
  Thread: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
Post: RE: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
I'm definitely not the first to propose a Gaukel Greenway, and I would hate for this to be branded as "my idea". In fact there was a great discussion on this forum in the GRT thread: http://www.water...
   samnabi Urban Design 69 30,934 02-28-2019, 09:42 PM
  Thread: Charlie West (Charles & Gaukel) | 31 fl | Complete
Post: RE: Charlie West (Charles & Gaukel) | 31 fl | U/C
Looking good, I just they'd pick a colour other than grey.
   samnabi Urban Areas 1,072 592,551 10-22-2018, 05:56 PM
  Thread: Kitchener Ward 9 candidates
Post: RE: Kitchener Ward 9 candidates
Does anyone know why the Labour Council decided to endorse Debbie over Melissa? (https://www.wrlc.ca/endorsed_candidates) I think Melissa Bowman definitely has her finger on the pulse of cycling ne...
   samnabi 2018 Municipal Elections 28 18,692 10-08-2018, 08:50 PM
  Thread: Recovering old WW threads
Post: RE: Recovering old WW threads
Sorry to revive an old thread, but there's a browseable version of those old posts here: https://wonderfulwaterloo.samnabi.com/
   samnabi Forum Issues 6 11,554 10-04-2018, 03:45 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Grand Social (http://grandsocial.ca/) is trying to do this. I'd suggest integrating their calendar into WRC. Instead of starting yet another event listing, let's signal boost and add to what's already...
   samnabi Urban Areas 1,237 985,770 06-23-2015, 10:40 AM
  Thread: Trio on Belmont | 14 fl, 12 fl, 8 fl | Complete
Post: RE: Trio on Belmont | 46m,40m,?m | 14 fl, 12 fl, 8...
Some more photos for posterity. Taken January 30, 2015. Quite the drastic shock. Ostensibly the new landscaped trail will be better, but how many years before that plays out? They didn't need to u...
   samnabi Urban Areas 121 138,895 02-12-2015, 01:39 PM
  Thread: Trio on Belmont | 14 fl, 12 fl, 8 fl | Complete
Post: RE: Trio on Belmont | 46m,40m,?m | 14 fl, 12 fl, 8...
Substantial earth moving has been happening over the last couple months. Looks like the foundations are well underway. Also, the trees all along the property abutting the Iron Horse Trail were cut...
   samnabi Urban Areas 121 138,895 01-28-2015, 06:11 PM
  Thread: Recovering old WW threads
Post: RE: Recovering old WW threads
I've updated the GitHub page (https://github.com/samnabi/wonderful-waterloo-recovery) with more ways that people can help recover data from WW. Please do check  it out if you can lend a hand. So fa...
   samnabi Forum Issues 6 11,554 01-11-2015, 11:28 PM
  Thread: Recovering old WW threads
Post: RE: Recovering old WW threads
Not a whole lot. Still working behind the scenes to get more data, but I think I've got all the low-hanging fruit already. I'm hoping to get it archived properly with some help from UW.
   samnabi Forum Issues 6 11,554 10-22-2014, 02:43 PM
  Thread: Recovering old WW threads
Post: Recovering old WW threads
I've been trying to recover as much of WonderfulWaterloo.com as I can over the past few days, and I've set up a central repository on Github so we can organise all the scraped content and eventually i...
   samnabi Forum Issues 6 11,554 08-28-2014, 10:52 AM

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