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RE: The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C - Momo26 - 06-28-2025
All purpose built rentals?
This area has by in large been a success. Thoughts?
RE: The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C - tomh009 - 06-29-2025
(06-28-2025, 12:45 PM)Momo26 Wrote: All purpose built rentals?
Yes. That is Auburn's business model.
RE: The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C - westwardloo - 06-30-2025
(06-28-2025, 12:45 PM)Momo26 Wrote: All purpose built rentals?
This area has by in large been a success. Thoughts?
It has been a success, but the buildings have become uglier and uglier as the phases progress. The first building is actually not bad looking, but then they just stopped trying. and went with as much grey/ beige EIFS/precast as they could fit in a rectangle building.
I also hate that they are allowed to hang a giant baner down the building letting people know rentals available. It makes the buildings look even more trashy
RE: The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C - Spokes - 07-08-2025
I'm a little surprised they're doing a second hotel
RE: The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C - tomh009 - 07-08-2025
(07-08-2025, 06:42 AM)Spokes Wrote: I'm a little surprised they're doing a second hotel
Since they have been operating the Delta for a while now--almost 10 years--I assume they have sufficient data on hotel room demand. I didn't expect this either, though!
RE: The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C - ZEBuilder - 07-08-2025
(07-08-2025, 06:42 AM)Spokes Wrote: I'm a little surprised they're doing a second hotel
There is no second hotel in the plans, it is only 3 residential buildings, with a tiny amount of ground floor commercial in the buildings fronting Father David Bauer.
RE: The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C - nms - 07-09-2025
The next hotel in Waterloo is a proposed Hyatt on the University of Waterloo North Campus. I think Waterloo is still at a net loss of hotels that have disappeared in the last decade (eg the Waterloo Hotel, the Waterloo Inn, the Comfort Inn (?) on Weber).
RE: The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C - Vojnik_Vahaj - 07-10-2025
(06-27-2025, 09:17 PM)panamaniac Wrote: They need to take that podium facade down a couple of degrees.Yea, instead of actual images, they should do artistic designs of barrels and wheat in the style of that one building near downtown everyone loves with the circles(im blanking on the name)
RE: The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C - ZEBuilder - 07-10-2025
(07-10-2025, 10:45 AM)Vojnik_Vahaj Wrote:(06-27-2025, 09:17 PM)panamaniac Wrote: They need to take that podium facade down a couple of degrees.Yea, instead of actual images, they should do artistic designs of barrels and wheat in the style of that one building near downtown everyone loves with the circles(im blanking on the name)
Civic 66 at Scott and Weber?
RE: The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C - Vojnik_Vahaj - 07-16-2025
(07-10-2025, 11:03 AM)ZEBuilder Wrote:(07-10-2025, 10:45 AM)Vojnik_Vahaj Wrote: Yea, instead of actual images, they should do artistic designs of barrels and wheat in the style of that one building near downtown everyone loves with the circles(im blanking on the name)
Civic 66 at Scott and Weber?
Yes, that one. Thank you.