10-19-2020, 08:05 PM
(10-19-2020, 04:29 PM)westwardloo Wrote:(10-19-2020, 03:03 PM)taylortbb Wrote: Even though Momentum builds faster, I think it's better for the city for it to not end up all with one developer. The city should be the one planning the street grid, making sure it integrates in to the trails and roads surrounding the site. The city also has the opportunity to ensure it becomes a good mix of retail, residential, and office. Master planned developments always end up kind of boring.Could not agree more. City should be the ones planning all street grids whether it is a subdivision or a master planned residential development. It is too bad that the Schneider's factory land wasn't subdivided before selling. Not only is that probably going to take 3 decades to complete, it is going to be extremely boring in terms of architecture. If a few developers were involved I think we would see the buildout quicker and there would have been healthy competition to create unique functional building to attract buyers.
Personally I am waiting for a few toronto developers to discover Kitchener as investment opportunities. Seems like we have a decent amount of regional players, but then everything else is slow boring London developers.
Not that I would ever want to live in a majority of Mississauga, but there are a lot of interesting building being proposed/built near square one that i would love to see in Kitchener.
I wouldn't want to live anywhere near square one. I rode across the GTA from S1 to the east side of Scarborough, and the 1 km of parking lots from the GO Bus to the start of the trail was by far the most dangerous part of my day...also, 1 KM of PARKING!
And that's not even to to mention the annoyance of our GO bus pulling into S1 7 minutes before our connection and still missing our connection.