General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

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I'm serious. Most of the recent restaurant openings in downtown are struggling, the exception being the Duke Food Block. So why the need to have yet another restaurant in an area that is clearly not yet ready to support another one?

At this point Downtown needs more people: more residents and more workers. Once density is there, prime ground level retail space will be snatched of the market in no time.

I think this is right. Certainly I'd like to see full activated retail along the main streets, but there's no direct way to get there from where we are. We have to increase density, and especially residential density.