11-14-2019, 08:18 PM
(11-14-2019, 04:46 PM)westwardloo Wrote: Personally I my top 3 uses for the site would be:
1) a purpose built facilities for The Museum/ KWAG maybe add a little extra performing arts space. I think region needs to start looking at investing more in the arts. Having a diverse city with different amenities will attract wider range of people to call this area home. I hear a lot of people my age question what there is to do in this city. They prefer to live in ottawa toronto or Hamilton that can provide unique entertainment options.
2) would be a hotel convention centre maybe with a beautiful plaza
3) would be build two condos with decent heights. While providing a public plaza or a connection to the park.
Personally I am not against a new arena. I just think that it can be built in the aud parking lot. The whole area could become an arena district in itself.
That would put paid to themuseum's expansion plan (has the purchase of the bank building gone ahead yet?). How about a City of Kitchener annex of the Regional History Museum (lots of their holdings are never seen)? Or, more ambitious, how about a Canadian Museum of Design (why not in Kitchener?!)?