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RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - clasher - 11-19-2019
(11-19-2019, 12:00 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: Waterloo seems to have deep pockets I wonder where they find all the money
The KPL renovation cost 40 million dollars... 3M seems like a much smaller reno but still a good investment.
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - taylortbb - 11-19-2019
(11-19-2019, 03:10 PM)clasher Wrote:(11-19-2019, 12:00 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: Waterloo seems to have deep pockets I wonder where they find all the money
The KPL renovation cost 40 million dollars... 3M seems like a much smaller reno but still a good investment.
Not really comparable, as this reno isn't for a current library. It's the former library building, which they hope to lease out after the renovation. KPL should be judged on community benefits, while this is basically just the city acting as a developer. Not that I disagree with the project, the Carnegie libraries are definitely historically significant and I think their preservation is well justified.
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - panamaniac - 11-19-2019
The KPL project was a major expansion. The "reno" was just a part of a much bigger project.
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - Rainrider22 - 11-19-2019
I am not just referencing, another 3 million for this project, is the combination of projects they have going. I always see them spending significant amounts of money.
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - clasher - 11-19-2019
(11-19-2019, 03:17 PM)taylortbb Wrote:(11-19-2019, 03:10 PM)clasher Wrote: The KPL renovation cost 40 million dollars... 3M seems like a much smaller reno but still a good investment.
Not really comparable, as this reno isn't for a current library. It's the former library building, which they hope to lease out after the renovation. KPL should be judged on community benefits, while this is basically just the city acting as a developer. Not that I disagree with the project, the Carnegie libraries are definitely historically significant and I think their preservation is well justified.
I'm at my limit on free record articles so I didn't know all the details... still probably worth it as you say.
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - tomh009 - 11-19-2019
It's only $6/month to support local journalism.
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - KevinL - 03-04-2020
Indigenous artifacts found in Kitchener during road construction
Quote:Indigenous artifacts and evidence of a longhouse and First Nations village have been found at a location in south Kitchener where road construction is set to start on Fischer-Hallman Road this spring.
The Region of Waterloo has ordered what's called a stage 4 archeological assessment after 965 items were found in an area of Fischer-Hallman Road between Bleams Road and Strasburg Creek.
The latest stage, which will be led by an environmental company and a First Nations field liaison will "involve hand excavation to identify, document and salvage all archeological artifacts."
A stage four archeological assessment is estimated to take about six to seven months, according to a regional report, and cost $1.6 million.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/kitchener-indigenous-artifacts-1.5485132
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - nms - 03-06-2020
A related article from rych mills about another settlement that was found near the site of Dominion Rubber in the late 1800s.
"But let's backtrack. The Webers and other pioneers were Americans — and latecomers to this area's story. Lot 16 contains one of the few known Indigenous settlement sites within Kitchener. The 1894 Ontario Archaeologist's Report noted evidence of a Neutral village in the area around 2017's Dominion, Park, Cherry and Strange streets. It had last been occupied in the mid-1600s. In 1912, during the Canadian Consolidated Rubber factory's construction on Strange Street in the west corner of Lot 16, several well-preserved Indigenous skeletons surfaced. In those days, there were no requirements for investigation, consultation or preservation."
https://www.therecord.com/living-story/7577349-flash-from-the-past-lot-16-from-aboriginal-village-to-factory/[/url][url=https://www.therecord.com/living-story/7577349-flash-from-the-past-lot-16-from-aboriginal-village-to-factory/?fbclid=IwAR08-pCL-TwI54z3HeYGF9xjkYTdO-jaTr9zl5--dXR4YhTsROjLIGHhQ74]
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - nms - 03-26-2021
The Waterloo Central Railway has recently taken delivery of five ex-VIA RDC Budd Cars. They are currently stored in and around their shop in St. Jacobs while they wait their turn in the restoration cue. More information (and photos) are available on their Facebook Page.
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - ac3r - 09-14-2023
Some idiot in a truck took out the century old iron fence along Frederick. It apparently had a heritage designation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/waterloo/comments/16ij76h/some_truck_obliterated_the_beautiful_wroughtiron/
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - SF22 - 09-14-2023
(09-14-2023, 11:03 AM)ac3r Wrote: Some idiot in a truck took out the century old iron fence along Frederick. It apparently had a heritage designation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/waterloo/comments/16ij76h/some_truck_obliterated_the_beautiful_wroughtiron/
My family and I walk down this stretch of Frederick a few times a week. That is absolutely awful, as both a pedestrian and someone who has admired that house for years.
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - danbrotherston - 09-15-2023
(09-14-2023, 11:23 AM)SF22 Wrote:(09-14-2023, 11:03 AM)ac3r Wrote: Some idiot in a truck took out the century old iron fence along Frederick. It apparently had a heritage designation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/waterloo/comments/16ij76h/some_truck_obliterated_the_beautiful_wroughtiron/
My family and I walk down this stretch of Frederick a few times a week. That is absolutely awful, as both a pedestrian and someone who has admired that house for years.
Lol...yeah, that street is such a microcosm of everything wrong in our community. "Heritage" houses that cannot be redeveloped next to tall towers that NIMBYs pretend don't exist when they explain how a 5 story building would ruin their neighbourhood, all located on a busy arterial street that is horrible for everyone who lives on or nearby.
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - KevinL - 05-17-2024
It's 50 years to the day since what was likely the most damaging disaster in the Region's history, the Cambridge floods. The Region has put up a page with a recap: https://aroundtheregion.ca/remembering-the-cambridge-flood-of-1974/
RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage - bravado - 12-21-2025
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/heritage-vote-long-term-care-beds-cambridge/article_0c93e151-9351-5422-982b-ef87bac3c0d4.html
https://archive.ph/00bvS
I have a major beef with heritage protection and how it uses public power to NOT serve the public - and I think this recent issue in Cambridge is a great example. Have we built anything worthy of "protecting" since we came up with post-war zoning and heritage legislation?
Quote:A heritage designation for the entire former Golden Years nursing home building could have cost Cambridge 256 long-term care beds.
Cambridge council instead voted to only designate the exterior of the property at 704 Eagle St. N., while removing the proposed designation for its interior to make way for a service the city “urgently needs.”
Following the decision, however, Mayor Jan Liggett told council it was a “sad day for heritage in the community.”
The decision came after a delegation from peopleCare Communities, the Waterloo Region-based long-term-care provider looking to redevelop the site into a modern 256-bed long-term-care home.
What is the purpose of municipal government if it does not prioritize things that benefit the public? How many projects like this die quietly without ever getting a headline?
It's clear (to me) that lots of our neighbours think that losing parking + old brick facades would be worse than the current reality of losing an entire young generation without housing + the elderly becoming bankrupt and dying alone.