General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

[Lens]

The Uptown parkade is now sporting chain link fencing around all of its upper edges.

[Pheidippides]

I've noticed that 42 erb st e (the old lcbo and current creative enterprise initiative building) is for sale. Is momentum still the current owner and does anyone know what is/was planned for the site? Perhaps relatedly the house to the west buss recently sold (the Waterloo club-which is on the move apparently).

[Viewfromthe42]

I believe Momentum wanted/needed that space next door to make the development profitable. Having lost that battle to a newer-to-development proposal which promised the club space in the completed design, they may be trying to move on and allow someone else to work with the now-trickier space. I don't see Momentum looking at anything less than 10-storeys in the future. The 4/6/6 for their first builds may have been a financing/confidence decision, but with 1Vic and theonehundred, I think they'll not be moving on as many of the less-profitable sub-10 options, which 41 erb st e has now become.

[Section ThirtyOne]

Received a flyer in the mail today, Hatashita Diamond Centre at the corner of Erb and King is closing. The owners are retiring after 65 years and liquidating their inventory.

I wonder if they own the building and it will also go up for sale? They have been there a long time.

[KevinL]

Received a flyer in the mail today, Hatashita Diamond Centre at the corner of Erb and King is closing. The owners are retiring after 65 years and liquidating their inventory.

I wonder if they own the building and it will also go up for sale? They have been there a long time.

I remember when Waterloo Computer Books was in that space for a while. It was a bank before that, I think.

[Section ThirtyOne]

Received a flyer in the mail today, Hatashita Diamond Centre at the corner of Erb and King is closing. The owners are retiring after 65 years and liquidating their inventory.

I wonder if they own the building and it will also go up for sale? They have been there a long time.

I remember when Waterloo Computer Books was in that space for a while. It was a bank before that, I think.

That was not their original location, I believe that was on Bridgeport in what is now the Walmart plaza?

Thanks for mentioning what used to be in the Erb/King space, I couldn't recall. It is a prime corner lot, and I wonder if it will be redeveloped?

[nms]

The Record article indicated that they owned the building since 1998.  The top floors are currently unoccupied.

[insider]

A new coffee shop is opening next to CIBC in Uptown... I heard it's by the owners of Abe Erb but not sure. Looks pretty cool.

http://settlementco.ca/

[timc]

A new coffee shop is opening next to CIBC in Uptown... I heard it's by the owners of Abe Erb but not sure. Looks pretty cool.

http://settlementco.ca/

I'm surprised that a new coffee shop would open so close to Coffee Culture.

[GtwoK]

I think it's more comparable to DVLB, honestly... which is also only 2 blocks away.

[ookpik]

A new coffee shop is opening next to CIBC in Uptown... I heard it's by the owners of Abe Erb but not sure. Looks pretty cool.

http://settlementco.ca/

Too bad they couldn't have set up side by side. Then they could share the kitchen and food menus with wet and dry restaurant sections  

BTW I really miss the BBQ ribs at Abe Erb that was on their original menu.

[nms]

It looks like the former Branch 530 Waterloo Legion has a new development plan, returning back to its roots as employment land.

[panamaniac]

Looks good.

[rangersfan]

This is great, hope this project goes through.

[insider]

I'm sure this will go through. Great addition, even though it's more gentrification. Slightly bigger pic: