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General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
(11-13-2017, 01:13 PM)GtwoK Wrote:
(11-13-2017, 09:07 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Has a tenant been announced yet?

Chosen, but not announced. At least for the one side — the space has been divided into 2 offices and is being custom-built for each.

At one of the tenants is MAJiK Systems, a Velocity Garage graduate.

   
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(11-30-2017, 04:23 AM)rangersfan Wrote: Yes I was trying to highlight the fact that the article's information was not the most up to date.

Sorry, I meant to say the article changed to list the building at 31 stories.
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The CBC article has been updated to show a list of the ten projects going through the site plan review :

345 King St. W. for a six-storey office building
114 Victoria St. S. for an office and residential property
24 Gaukel St. which includes 31-storey residential building with ground floor commercial
54 Water St. which is Manulife's project that includes Francis and Charles
1 Queen St N. 3 storey addition to the existing building (residential units with ground floor commercial)
334 King St. W. 2 storey building with ground floor retail and upper floor office
51 David St. 6 storey residential building
112 Benton St. 15 storey residential building. That is a second building for Arrow Lofts which is has received final approval.
399 Queen St. S. Barra on Queen is a 6 storey residential building
607 King St. W. Sixo (which is a zoning amendment / official plan amendment – no site plan yet
20 Breithaupt St. (which is also a zoning amendment / official plan amendment – no site plan yet
64 Margaret Ave. – (3 and 6 storey residential buildings)
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So all of those have been previously known about, except 334 King St W — which must be the new LCBO location. Too bad they aren't at least adding a third floor or something.
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(12-01-2017, 11:09 AM)GtwoK Wrote: So all of those have been previously known about, except 334 King St W — which must be the new LCBO location. Too bad they aren't at least adding a third floor or something.

Given that they are repurposing the existing buildings (not quite heritage but still) I'm personally quite OK with this plan.
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I would have liked to see the LCBO as part of the transit hub or as part of 345 King St W.
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(12-01-2017, 03:00 PM)rangersfan Wrote: I would have liked to see the LCBO as part of the transit hub or as part of 345 King St W.

wasn't it mentioned somewhere that SIXO will include a ground floor LCBO?
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(12-01-2017, 04:57 PM)urbd Wrote:
(12-01-2017, 03:00 PM)rangersfan Wrote: I would have liked to see the LCBO as part of the transit hub or as part of 345 King St W.

wasn't it mentioned somewhere that SIXO will include a ground floor LCBO?

Neither one of those works because they need to move now, not two or five years from now.  Of course either one could try to attract the LCBO once their lease at 334 expires.
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(12-01-2017, 07:43 AM)rangersfan Wrote: The CBC article has been updated to show a list of the ten projects going through the site plan review :

345 King St. W. for a six-storey office building
114 Victoria St. S. for an office and residential property
24 Gaukel St. which includes 31-storey residential building with ground floor commercial
54 Water St. which is Manulife's project that includes Francis and Charles
1 Queen St N. 3 storey addition to the existing building (residential units with ground floor commercial)
334 King St. W. 2 storey building with ground floor retail and upper floor office
51 David St. 6 storey residential building
112 Benton St. 15 storey residential building. That is a second building for Arrow Lofts which is has received final approval.
399 Queen St. S. Barra on Queen is a 6 storey residential building
607 King St. W. Sixo (which is a zoning amendment / official plan amendment – no site plan yet
20 Breithaupt St. (which is also a zoning amendment / official plan amendment – no site plan yet
64 Margaret Ave. – (3 and 6 storey residential buildings)

Just want to point out that this list does not seem to include:
48 Ontario redevelopment
Old Nougat redevelopment

Whether they aren't yet at an advanced enough stage with the city or for other reasons, I'm not sure. 

Seems that list should be at least 12 though.
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(12-01-2017, 07:03 PM)dubya Wrote: Just want to point out that this list does not seem to include:
48 Ontario redevelopment
Old Nougat redevelopment

Whether they aren't yet at an advanced enough stage with the city or for other reasons, I'm not sure. 

Seems that list should be at least 12 though.

If they aren't under site plan review, they would not be listed.  The Drewlo project isn't there, either.  If they plan to go ahead, they'll need to get moving fairly quickly, 15 months is not a lot of time for this,
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(12-01-2017, 09:21 PM)tomh009 Wrote: If they aren't under site plan review, they would not be listed.  The Drewlo project isn't there, either.  If they plan to go ahead, they'll need to get moving fairly quickly, 15 months is not a lot of time for this,

Drewlo definitely wants the building plans in before the deadline.  If not they will have to pay 6.6 million in fees.  From the Record:

Quote:The extra fees are so significant, they could mean the difference between a project going ahead or not, said Allan Drewlo, vice-president of Drewlo Holdings. His downtown project will build about 450 rental apartments, so it would face almost $6.6 million in regional and city development charges if it misses the deadline.
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Meeting the deadline to avoid the millions in extra fees is crucial, said Drewlo, but it's not going to be easy. "It seems like a really long time (until the deadline), but our experience is it can drag on. We'd like to be going right now."
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Funny to think that the just-announced Manulife project could proceed before Drewlo's, which has been around in one form or another for years now.
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I gt the sense Manulife had been working on theirs awhile, just out of public view.
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(12-02-2017, 11:53 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Funny to think that the just-announced Manulife project could proceed before Drewlo's, which has been around in one form or another for years now.

Manulife has engaged an external firm to run the project so that may be getting higher priority. We don't know what else Drewlo has in the works, in the region or elsewhere.
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And especially given that while we've known about a potential project here for some years, Drewlo has only recently been the owner of the land
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