03-23-2021, 11:25 AM
(03-22-2021, 03:25 PM)jeffster Wrote:(03-22-2021, 12:06 PM)ac3r Wrote: In contrast, Kitchener is doing all they can to encourage new development and they are not afraid to push the boundaries of what has traditionally been built downtown, from pedestrian street zones, a massive new train station, cultural venues to 40-50 floor skyscrapers. Kitchener knows it is becoming a large and significant Canadian city that needs to evolve and we aren't afraid of embracing that.
Kitchener wasn't always that way. I mean, for the longest time, Waterloo was having the largest builds. Not saying that the mayor of Kitchener changed all this, because it started changing before he came in, but certainly having Berry as mayor hasn't hurt.
Mayor Zehr deserves a ton of credit as he was the one that first created the EDIF (?) and tucked away ~$100 million I think to use on downtown development. It's what helped get the UW school of pharmacy and the Tannery going and I think we can all agree, those are two of the projects that really started building momentum in dtk.