(06-29-2018, 12:30 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Easier conversion:

Quote:Anyway … it sounds like this would be light industrial space for tech companies, with multiple buildings and roads in between. Not sure how many floors, how many roads, how much office but the range of floor space is probably within range but not high density.

(06-29-2018, 12:30 PM)tomh009 Wrote:

(06-29-2018, 10:43 AM)Markster Wrote: Hmm.

38 acres is 1,655,280 square feet, or 153,781 square metres

Easier conversion:

15 hectares is 150,000 square metres.   A hectare is 100m x 100m: converting from hectares to square metres or square kilometres is super easy, unlike acres to square feet or square miles. (A hectare is technically not an SI unit, but an older metric one, consisting of 100 ares, which in turn are 10m x 10m.)

Anyway … it sounds like this would be light industrial space for tech companies, with multiple buildings and roads in between. Not sure how many floors, how many roads, how much office but the range of floor space is probably within range but not high density.

(06-29-2018, 04:32 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Apparently this has the same density as the usual suburban dreck it replaced, but it’s mostly parkland.

(06-29-2018, 04:32 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: It would be way better to build one enormous building and combine together all the space that would have been wasted on utterly useless bits of grass into one nice park in the middle, something like this:

https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/complete-guide-apple-park-3489704/

Apparently this has the same density as the usual suburban dreck it replaced, but it’s mostly parkland.

(06-29-2018, 05:16 PM)tomh009 Wrote:

(06-29-2018, 04:32 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: It would be way better to build one enormous building and combine together all the space that would have been wasted on utterly useless bits of grass into one nice park in the middle, something like this:

https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/complete-guide-apple-park-3489704/

Apparently this has the same density as the usual suburban dreck it replaced, but it’s mostly parkland.

Parkland accessible (and visible) only to company employees.

(06-29-2018, 05:11 PM)Markster Wrote:

(06-29-2018, 04:32 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Apparently this has the same density as the usual suburban dreck it replaced, but it’s mostly parkland.

That is mostly thanks to the gargantuan parking garage.

(07-25-2018, 12:20 PM)jgsz Wrote: Bloomberg reported that last year Toronto created more tech jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington combined.   Toronto saw almost 29,000 tech jobs created in 2017.  Plus, CBRE ranks Toronto over NYC in broad tech allure.  I can't help but think that Waterloo Region is benefiting from this boom in Toronto.   I also find it interesting that Duke Tower Kitchener is promoting Kitchener over Toronto in their video by saying that TO is overpriced and overcrowded.   

(01-19-2018, 07:14 AM)tomh009 Wrote:

(01-18-2018, 02:36 PM)DHLawrence Wrote: Toronto is the only Canadian city still in the running for Amazon HQ2.

Made the short list of 20, maybe even the top 10. But the oddsmakers don't see Toronto as a favourite, it's somewhere between 10:1 and 15:1.

(11-14-2018, 01:38 PM)tomh009 Wrote: As probably everyone knows by now, HQ2 will be split between NYC, Richmond VA and Nashville TN (so not really an "HQ2" then …).

The fact that Toronto-Waterloo did not win is not surprising (the incentives offered by the winners add up to US$2.4B, and that's only about a third of what NJ had offered), but it's maybe not such a bad thing anyway. Luisa D'Amato is of the same opinion:
https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/9032130-d-amato-failed-amazon-hq2-bid-has-taught-us-a-few-lessons-here-in-waterloo-region/

(11-14-2018, 02:15 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:

(11-14-2018, 01:38 PM)tomh009 Wrote: As probably everyone knows by now, HQ2 will be split between NYC, Richmond VA and Nashville TN (so not really an "HQ2" then …).

The fact that Toronto-Waterloo did not win is not surprising (the incentives offered by the winners add up to US$2.4B, and that's only about a third of what NJ had offered), but it's maybe not such a bad thing anyway. Luisa D'Amato is of the same opinion:
https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/9032130-d-amato-failed-amazon-hq2-bid-has-taught-us-a-few-lessons-here-in-waterloo-region/

Funny that nobody noticed before the final award that locations around 6km from each of the Bezos’ houses were included, and predicted those locations. It was pretty much a fake competition from the beginning.

Quote:Three Waterloo Region firms are on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 list of the country's fastest growing technology companies.

Vidyard is the top local company on this year's list, released Thursday. It comes in at No. 17 with average revenue growth of 1,198 per cent in the previous three years. Sortable is 45th with growth of 483 per cent while Axonify is 50th with growth of 390 per cent.

(12-05-2018, 09:29 PM)rangersfan Wrote: TD is opening the Sustainable Future Lab in Evolve1. Very cool initiative.

http://www.coragroup.com/2018/11/evolv1-welcomes-td-sustainable-future-lab/