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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
ac3r Wrote: (Yesterday, 07:46 PM) -- And that's rather true. The Ottawa Transitway is a good example of this. While their light-metro/LRT lines don't follow the exact route of the Transitway, they st...
   ZEBuilder Transportation and Infrastructure 4,304 3,223,424 6 hours ago
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-14-2024, 01:58 AM) -- Except we don't have a shortage of jobs. Unless something has changed drastically with the economy and I haven't heard about it, the employment rate ha...
   ZEBuilder Politics 127 2,331 04-14-2024, 11:39 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-13-2024, 01:36 AM) -- Continuing to talk about the benefits, does not actually acknowledge the harms. And yes, another city will no doubt be willing to pave their farm land....
   ZEBuilder Politics 127 2,331 04-13-2024, 10:28 AM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
tomh009 Wrote: (04-10-2024, 07:27 PM) -- This is construction fencing, not just for demolition, so I have to believe that they will start this as soon as demolition is done. -- They don't even ha...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 148 30,778 04-10-2024, 08:14 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (04-10-2024, 02:40 PM) -- I don't think we should read too much into council poking their noses into lease contracts. I'm sure they were flooded with emails asking them to sa...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 63 4,690 04-10-2024, 04:11 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Councillor Ioannidis was absolutely pissed about this last night, he wasn't mad about the height or anything in particular but he was mainly mad about the lease between GRR and the developer, which is...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 63 4,690 04-09-2024, 02:05 PM
  Thread: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/...
ac3r Wrote: (04-08-2024, 09:10 AM) -- My god it's ugly. -- Certainly DTK is worse than this, just look the podiums. Sure the towers aren't the best but it's no worse than DTK and it's certainly b...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 780 428,129 04-08-2024, 01:08 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
SF22 Wrote: (04-08-2024, 11:04 AM) -- Oh, here's something from Engage WR with a map of 'proposed regional intensification corridors' https://www.engagewr.ca/regional-official-plan/maps/proposed-regi...
   ZEBuilder Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,220,600 04-08-2024, 11:51 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
ac3r Wrote: (04-08-2024, 09:12 AM) -- It would be nice, but I doubt they'd be willing to spend the money to do that. But isn't Ottawa the preferred street to use for a third line anyways? -- Ott...
   ZEBuilder Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,220,600 04-08-2024, 10:52 AM
  Thread: 25 Sportsworld Crossing & 4220 King Street East | 18+14 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 25 Sportsworld Crossing & 4220 King Street Eas...
Ellensparky Wrote: (04-05-2024, 11:59 PM) -- Any updates at this site? -- I drove by it today and the tower that's currently under construction looks to be about 10 or so floors up, I didn't get an ...
   ZEBuilder Suburbs 45 9,783 04-06-2024, 12:11 AM
  Thread: The Junction | 37 & 33 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: The Junction | 37 & 33 fl | Proposed
mastermind Wrote: (04-05-2024, 07:56 AM) -- Demolition is underway at the mechanic shop on the corner.  I wonder if they will also knock down the colourful dots building now too, since they are alrea...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 133 37,383 04-05-2024, 09:50 AM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
CP42 Wrote: (04-04-2024, 07:31 PM) -- I’m surprised they mentioned 10 Duke and 417 King starting construction in 2024 given they haven’t started sales nor even hinted at anything yet. Also curious h...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 63 4,690 04-04-2024, 07:46 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Staff are recommending approval at Monday's Planning and Strategic Initiatives meeting. Concerns from the public were generally about height/density, shadows, and then the GRR situation. For the...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 63 4,690 04-04-2024, 12:21 PM
  Thread: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Square Wrote: (03-30-2024, 07:52 PM) -- I see they have the concrete pumper up, but is it me?, or is it look too far away from the main building? -- The tower crane is set to the rear of the buildi...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 1,672 978,942 04-01-2024, 06:51 PM
  Thread: 1198 Fischer Hallman Rd | 14 & 22 | Proposed
Post: RE: 1198 Fischer Hallman Rd | 14 & 22 | Proposed
Last spring they cleared all the trees on the site, They got the demolition permits for the existing structures last week, this weekend as I passed by there was equipment on site so demolition works s...
   ZEBuilder Suburbs 21 3,432 04-01-2024, 01:27 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (03-31-2024, 01:12 PM) -- Vive tried to buy the land in question: https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/kitchener-developer-made-offers-on-six-wilmot-farms-a-month-before-the-reg...
   ZEBuilder Politics 127 2,331 03-31-2024, 02:57 PM
  Thread: 3D Model - Future Waterloo Region Skylines
Post: RE: 3D Model - Future Waterloo Region Skylines
CP42 Wrote: (03-29-2024, 11:48 PM) -- That’s awesome! What are the two towers between station park and the bright building?  Assume it’s in the empty land where the night club used to be. I remem...
   ZEBuilder Urban Design 9 1,978 03-30-2024, 06:03 AM
  Thread: Verde KW (15 Palace St) | 2x 8 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Verde KW (15 Palace St) | 2x 8 fl | Proposed
As I mentioned in the Parkside Towns thread this has a crane now, the crane is only large enough to do the first building. So if this isn't phased there will be two cranes up here. It certainly appear...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 2 1,178 03-29-2024, 04:20 PM
  Thread: 3D Model - Future Waterloo Region Skylines
Post: RE: 3D Model - Future Waterloo Region Skylines
DTK looking towards King/Vic from Victoria Park: DTK looking towards King/Ottawa from Victoria Park:
  ZEBuilder Urban Design 9 1,978 03-29-2024, 04:09 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Bytor Wrote: (03-29-2024, 01:42 PM) -- How many Vive proposals actually go through? (Serious question.) -- Short answer is not that many. Projects Vive has completed: 169 Borden Otis Ophelia Market...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 5,575 3,943,602 03-29-2024, 02:10 PM
  Thread: 3D Model - Future Waterloo Region Skylines
Post: RE: 3D Model - Future Waterloo Region Skylines
As a side project I've been modelling the future skyline of KW, inspiration for it was originally taken from pancanadianskylines on Instagram who is ericmacm (first post in this thread is about his mo...
   ZEBuilder Urban Design 9 1,978 03-29-2024, 02:00 PM
  Thread: Benton/Church project | 40 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Benton/Church project | 40 fl | Proposed
ac3r Wrote: (03-29-2024, 01:22 PM) -- Not my style, but it's okay. Who did the architecture? -- It says Kirkor on all the documents.
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 31 4,522 03-29-2024, 01:28 PM
  Thread: 178-202 Queen St S | 52 fl | Proposed
Post: 178-202 Queen St S | 52 fl | Proposed
This is another project that came up in the Growing Together documents. The developer behind this project is Zehr with ABA as the architect. Zehr doesn't currently own all the properties, only owning ...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 2 353 03-29-2024, 12:11 PM
  Thread: 45 Duke St W | 19 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 45 Duke St W | 19 fl | Proposed
In the Growing Together documents the second phase of this project was described. All the properties are owned again by Tony Di Batista. Phase 1 of the project has SPA for a 23 floor building fronting...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 32 15,876 03-29-2024, 11:52 AM
  Thread: Benton/Church project | 40 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Benton/Church project | 40 fl | Proposed
Here is the site plan and some renders. Site plan: Render from Church/Benton corner: Podium render from Church/Benton corner:
  ZEBuilder Urban Areas 31 4,522 03-29-2024, 11:30 AM
  Thread: Benton/Church project | 40 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Benton/Church project | ? fl | Proposed
This is one of the projects that was buried in the Growing Together documents. The proposal in its current form is 40 floors (125.15m to the roof, 131.15 to the top of the mechanical penthouse). The c...
   ZEBuilder Urban Areas 31 4,522 03-27-2024, 09:32 PM

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