Uptown Public Realm Strategy

[danbrotherston]

My understanding is that it was built for “any commercial purpose” (by CN, the owner of the rail yards formerly on that site), and then sold to the City.

It’s not a horrible building, but it’s not a really impressive landmark. Kitchener definitely has something with more presence.

Does it really need more presence? The majority of the operations at any city hall is office work. Dressing it up doesn't change it.

The building should also serve as a civic building, I'm not sure that it does in Waterloo, the parking lot may serve that purpose more at this point, but in Kitchener, the building itself serves as a civic building, hosting events, protests, art, whatever the need is.

I don't recall Waterloo having a similar building.  Even the cycling committee meets elsewhere.