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  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
This sort of design should be illegal. I'm devastated for the city of Kitchener.
   myfaceisonfire Urban Areas 148 30,852 01-28-2024, 11:54 AM
  Thread: 168 King St S | 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 168 King St S | 8 fl | U/C
westwardloo Wrote: (09-08-2023, 12:59 PM) -- Drove by this today. Looks like they may have topped out. Does anyone have a photo? -- I took this in late August from atop the Busker Carnival ferris w...
   myfaceisonfire Urban Areas 71 35,622 09-12-2023, 07:17 PM
  Thread: Vogue Residences (née District Condos) | 21 + 14 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Vogue Residences (née District Condos) | 21 + ...
UT has a better thread on this building than we do :) https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/vogue-residences-waterloo-bryton-group-21-14s-srm-architects.33197/
   myfaceisonfire University Area 226 200,633 07-10-2023, 02:31 PM
  Thread: SmartCentre development at Hespeler & Pinebush
Post: RE: SmartCentre development at Hespeler & Pinebush
I have never heard the term "uptown cambridge" before, is that new, or am I just out of the loop?
   myfaceisonfire Suburbs 70 18,633 06-16-2023, 08:56 PM
  Thread: Elevate Condos (1333 Weber St E) | 15, 15, 12 & 12 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Elevate Condos (1333 Weber St E) | 15, 15, 12 ...
I Would like to personally strangle the person responsible for the invention of precast.
   myfaceisonfire Urban Areas 216 88,545 11-07-2022, 12:54 PM
  Thread: 6 Regina St N & 24 Erb St E | 25 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 6 Regina St East & 24 Erb St East
ijmorlan Wrote: (09-14-2022, 10:12 PM) -- Regina St. North, not East. -- Di
   myfaceisonfire Urban Areas 31 5,745 09-15-2022, 09:20 AM
  Thread: 203-207 King St S | 30 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 203-207 King Street South | 26 fl | Proposed
Lens Wrote: (09-14-2022, 11:23 PM) -- Ooof. Terrible. This might be worse than circa, honestly. -- With most things these days, I find it depends on the finishes, which mainly depends on how cheap ...
   myfaceisonfire Urban Areas 38 7,005 09-15-2022, 09:19 AM
  Thread: ONE28 | 15 fl | U/C
Post: RE: ONE28 | 15 fl | U/C
I will give them credit that the building is only slightly uglier in reality than the horrible render made it out to be.
   myfaceisonfire University Area 139 84,401 07-21-2022, 09:01 AM
  Thread: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | U/C
ac3r Wrote: (04-21-2022, 08:02 PM) -- Damn, that's tiny. That's like the size of a garage on a house, if that. -- I quite literally am in garage right now and it is 600sq ft...maybe I should look i...
   myfaceisonfire Urban Areas 1,392 582,288 04-22-2022, 09:53 AM
  Thread: 81-85 Bridgeport Road East | 16-27 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 81-85 Bridgeport Road East | 16-22 fl | Propos...
Zoo Wrote: (04-15-2022, 02:19 PM) -- FWIW, this is supposedly tied to Schembri Property Managers. https://www.schembripm.com/ https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/showthread.php?tid=80&highl...
   myfaceisonfire Urban Areas 65 12,758 04-19-2022, 09:36 AM
  Thread: 199-205 Albert St | 81m | 24 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 199-205 Albert St | 81m | 24 fl | U/C
Maybe this is why all of our councilors are retiring, they took a drive through Northdale and couldn't believe what they had created.
   myfaceisonfire University Area 74 55,324 03-31-2022, 11:22 AM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
It is a really strange exodus...usually I'd say that something like this indicates problems at the top, but in this case, the top is also moving on.  The pandemic has made a lot of people people reeva...
   myfaceisonfire Politics 462 174,648 03-23-2022, 08:15 AM
  Thread: wtf? Sabletine moving to the sububrs
Post: RE: wtf? Sabletine moving to the sububrs
I live very close to here, on Whitmore, and the location has been a blessing for us.   It's so nice to be able to walk over in the mornings (when there is consistently a line) and pick up some snacks ...
   myfaceisonfire Food, Dining and Nightlife 10 5,565 03-22-2022, 02:24 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
jeffster Wrote: (03-22-2022, 12:54 AM) -- ac3r Wrote: (03-21-2022, 02:12 PM) -- Doug Ford/PCPO are still polling higher than any other party. If they win (and I am pretty certain they will), we dese...
   myfaceisonfire Politics 462 174,648 03-22-2022, 09:31 AM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
jwilliamson Wrote: (07-13-2021, 08:58 PM) -- Odd Burger (https://oddburger.com/) is moving into the Booster Juice space in uptown. --  If I were to guess, I would say that this is a re-branding of th...
   myfaceisonfire Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,302 2,024,327 07-13-2021, 10:19 PM
  Thread: Vogue Residences (née District Condos) | 21 + 14 fl | U/C
Post: RE: District Condos | 22 + 14 fl | Proposed
Rainrider22 Wrote: (04-13-2020, 07:10 PM) -- Hmmm.... no improvement by the looks of it.  It should blend in nicely with the rest of Northdale student rentals... -- Definitely not digging the south...
   myfaceisonfire University Area 226 200,633 04-14-2020, 11:03 AM
  Thread: Vogue Residences (née District Condos) | 21 + 14 fl | U/C
Post: RE: District Condos | 22 + 14 fl | Proposed
westwardloo Wrote: (12-09-2019, 04:43 PM) -- Drove by the site today. Lots of activity. Looks like there are starting to do a little digging. Saw a couple pile drivers working away. Wish we had an up...
   myfaceisonfire University Area 226 200,633 12-10-2019, 11:10 AM
  Thread: 262, 264, 268, 274, 276, 280 Albert Street
Post: RE: 262, 264, 268, 274, 276, 280 Albert Street
It really is jarring when you drive through the section of northdale bounded by Albert/Uni/Colombia/Lester and think about what it looked like even 5 years ago. The entire area has completely transfo...
   myfaceisonfire University Area 5 5,161 05-28-2019, 12:25 PM
  Thread: Grocery Stores
Post: RE: Grocery Stores
tomh009 Wrote: (12-05-2018, 01:33 PM) -- KevinL Wrote: (12-05-2018, 09:56 AM) -- December 5th indeed - that's today! T&T is open! -- At 10 AM there were several hundred people queued up outside. A...
   myfaceisonfire Retail 379 271,702 12-05-2018, 07:03 PM
  Thread: Blackstone Condos | 6 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Blackstone Condos (Bridge and Northfield) | ? ...
That's a well stocked bar!
   myfaceisonfire Suburbs 55 39,855 11-12-2018, 11:49 PM
  Thread: #QUICKWINS4KW
Post: RE: #QUICKWINS4KW
MidTowner Wrote: (11-08-2018, 10:49 AM) -- I don't think Barnes dances/scrambles are a very good example of a quick win. I can see a lot of opposition to such a plan at the intersections where it mig...
   myfaceisonfire Transportation and Infrastructure 16 18,894 11-08-2018, 12:00 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
jgsz Wrote: (08-16-2018, 05:17 PM) -- Actually, Ben Thanh is Vietnamese, not Thai.  It is named after a large market place in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. If I were to join a group (not a bad idea) I w...
   myfaceisonfire Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,302 2,024,327 08-16-2018, 11:23 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
panamaniac Wrote: (08-09-2018, 09:24 AM) -- myfaceisonfire Wrote: (08-09-2018, 09:17 AM) -- Man, it's such a shame to be losing those old mennonite homes.  I know Terry Good really ran them into the...
   myfaceisonfire Urban Areas 1,237 985,298 08-09-2018, 09:34 AM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Man, it's such a shame to be losing those old mennonite homes.  I know Terry Good really ran them into the groun but they were still charming.  I lived at 16 George through my formidable University ye...
   myfaceisonfire Urban Areas 1,237 985,298 08-09-2018, 09:17 AM
  Thread: 185 King St S | 7 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 185 King St. S., Waterloo (Corner of King and ...
Nice! digging the height, also covers up that weird parking lot wall of circa very nicly.
   myfaceisonfire Urban Areas 80 40,299 06-11-2018, 10:53 AM
  Thread: Sun Life sells Westmount Place for $77.8 million
Post: RE: Sun Life sells Westmount Place for $77.8 milli...
rickhd Wrote: (04-04-2018, 09:40 AM) -- http://bentallkennedy.com/pdf/retail/Westmount_Place.pdf Information on property. -- I can only imagine the nightmare that will be parking once T&T opens....
   myfaceisonfire Suburbs 16 13,524 04-04-2018, 09:56 AM

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