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RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - Square - 06-26-2019
Hope this is the right place for this new development.
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9454001-seven-storey-building-proposed-near-the-auditorium-in-kitchener/
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - Spokes - 06-26-2019
Looks like a good location.
I remember cutting through that property as a kid going home from Shepard
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - ac3r - 06-26-2019
(06-25-2019, 02:29 PM)robdrimmie Wrote: I'm seeing rumours that Frankie's is closing and that they're currently selling their stools and chairs for $10.
I saw two of them sitting outside with a sign taped to it the other day. Yuck, you could not pay me to take bar stools from that watering hole.
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - KevinL - 06-26-2019
(06-26-2019, 03:17 AM)Square Wrote: Hope this is the right place for this new development.
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9454001-seven-storey-building-proposed-near-the-auditorium-in-kitchener/
Certainly an improvement from the current look. https://goo.gl/maps/hyJDKUeQtXU9few47
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - Chris - 06-26-2019
(06-26-2019, 07:57 AM)ac3r Wrote:(06-25-2019, 02:29 PM)robdrimmie Wrote: I'm seeing rumours that Frankie's is closing and that they're currently selling their stools and chairs for $10.
I saw two of them sitting outside with a sign taped to it the other day. Yuck, you could not pay me to take bar stools from that watering hole.
I love Frankie's but I'll tell you this. Take two stools home and you won't have to immunize your kids.
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - panamaniac - 06-26-2019
I always picked up my step when walking past Frankies, for fear a fight might break out at any moment ...
I guess this is good news for Capers, however long that one lasts. It makes one wonder where the clientele will congregate next, once they're gone?
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - jgsz - 06-26-2019
I drove by the former MacIntosh Dry Cleaners on Victoria at Bramm and noticed a couple of dumpsters outside and workers inside.
Yesterday I drove by the former Tim Hortons at Frederick and Lancaster and noticed a large drill in the parking lot.
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - Spokes - 06-26-2019
Is there a plan for the Frankies space?
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - panamaniac - 06-26-2019
Might be nice if the Salvadoran place could move down to street level.
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - jgsz - 06-26-2019
About a month ago, workers started to remove the asphalt from the surface parking lot behind the building that once housed the KW Record at Queen and Duke Street. I had no idea there was a basement underneath the parking lot. Was there a parking lot when the Record owned that property or was that added when they redid the building? Did the original building cover all of the basement? And the obvious question is, "what are they doing now"?
This pic is from the Duke Street side:
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - panamaniac - 06-26-2019
I recall that the Record's printers were down in the basement (you could watch them running from the windows on Queen St), so perhaps the basement extended out beyond the back of the building. I can't recall what was there previously, but the Record would have required space for truck loading/unloading, no?
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - robdrimmie - 06-26-2019
(06-26-2019, 11:08 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Might be nice if the Salvadoran place could move down to street level.
I'm a bit concerned that if Frankie's closed because of rent increases (which is pure speculation on my part), The Guanaquita could follow. But if they were able to move downstairs that would be fantastic!
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - EdM - 06-26-2019
(06-26-2019, 12:18 PM)robdrimmie Wrote: I'm a bit concerned that if Frankie's closed because of rent increases (which is pure speculation on my part),
Frankie's was listed on Kijiji some months ago, and did not appear to be by a property management company or real estate agency. Continuing the speculation, perhaps Frankie's proprietors own the building and with general DTK rent increases they decided it's more profitable / less work to lease out the space than to run a bar?
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - tomh009 - 06-26-2019
(06-26-2019, 12:49 PM)EdM Wrote:(06-26-2019, 12:18 PM)robdrimmie Wrote: I'm a bit concerned that if Frankie's closed because of rent increases (which is pure speculation on my part),
Frankie's was listed on Kijiji some months ago, and did not appear to be by a property management company or real estate agency. Continuing the speculation, perhaps Frankie's proprietors own the building and with general DTK rent increases they decided it's more profitable / less work to lease out the space than to run a bar?
Or they want to retire? (I have no idea how old they are, though.)
RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - ac3r - 07-02-2019
I don't know where to ask this, so I'll post in this thread. The "Tent City" that has been in the paper lately is in the process of being shut down and the residents evicted. Does anyone know how/why it has its own location entry on Google Maps? Listed as a lodging, no less? Google has to review and approve submissions, so I find it a bit odd they'd list a temporary homeless encampment as a lodging.