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  Thread: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
Post: RE: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
panamaniac Wrote: (Yesterday, 05:39 PM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (Yesterday, 03:35 PM) -- I would not expect the developer to allow buyers to walk away from their deposits. Maybe one could negotiate a sett...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 859 313,607 Yesterday, 08:13 PM
  Thread: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
Post: RE: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
I would not expect the developer to allow buyers to walk away from their deposits. Maybe one could negotiate a settlement but the contract doesn't just allow one to not close. The Toronto case, the...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 859 313,607 Yesterday, 03:35 PM
  Thread: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
Post: RE: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
519 Wrote: (05-12-2026, 03:23 PM) -- nms Wrote: (05-12-2026, 03:02 PM) -- Do we have any idea of how many of these units are owned vs rented by the developer (or owned by someone but rented out by t...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 859 313,607 05-13-2026, 09:50 PM
  Thread: 45 Courtland Ave E | 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 45 Courtland Ave E | 8 fl | U/C
519 Wrote: (05-12-2026, 03:31 PM) -- Also I feel bad for that one house to the right of the this building (at corner of Benton and Courtland) since it will be the shadow of this building for almost t...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 41 15,858 05-13-2026, 09:43 PM
  Thread: The Aud
Post: RE: The Aud
timc Wrote: (07-03-2025, 10:49 AM) -- I think Market Square would be a great site for the Aud. There's lot of parking, transit access, and places to walk to before or after a game. -- Replying to a...
   tomh009 Sports and Recreation 188 179,120 05-11-2026, 05:34 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/...
Andy Mc Wrote: (05-07-2026, 06:34 PM) -- Looking north towards King St W 😉 -- Apropos, that low-rise apartment (stacked townhouse?) complex seems to finally be on the way toward fixing their porche...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 911 603,312 05-09-2026, 02:35 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Acitta Wrote: (05-04-2026, 06:51 PM) -- Longtime Waterloo pub listed for sale (https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/longtime-waterloo-pub-listed-for-sale/) The Duke of Wellington. -- Haven't b...
   tomh009 Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,430 2,519,270 05-05-2026, 11:19 AM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
ijmorlan Wrote: (05-04-2026, 05:46 PM) -- Acitta Wrote: (05-04-2026, 02:07 PM) -- That is a good looking building! -- Anybody else getting 404 when trying to view the link? -- Yes. It seems that...
   tomh009 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,264 1,309,187 05-05-2026, 11:17 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
westwardloo Wrote: (04-29-2026, 09:51 AM) -- Too bad it wasn't sold at the height of the market. I can't see anything being built here for at least a decade, unless Vive buys it and builds a grey pre...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 5,994 4,985,022 04-29-2026, 11:13 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Acitta Wrote: (04-24-2026, 11:26 AM) -- Why ION cost estimates went up (and what to do about it) (https://www.tritag.ca/blog/2026/04/22/why-ion-cost-estimates-went-up-and-what-to-do-about-it/) By ...
   tomh009 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,236 951,222 04-27-2026, 05:34 PM
  Thread: 210-226 King St E (Cambridge) | 40 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 210-226 King St E | 40 fl | Proposed
BormanConstruction Wrote: (04-27-2026, 12:36 PM) -- ZEBuilder Wrote: (04-21-2026, 04:18 PM) -- Yes, the developer for this one is two people from Shopify, there's only 2 elevators which is ridiculou...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 6 549 04-27-2026, 05:16 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: (04-21-2026, 07:15 PM) -- I can't believe you guys let this crap be built here. It's time for some standards. -- Please tell me which North American cities have hard architectural stand...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 911 603,312 04-26-2026, 02:50 PM
  Thread: General Business Updates and News
Post: RE: General Business Updates and News
plam Wrote: (04-19-2026, 02:49 PM) -- Migration to the US has always been significant. I read about engineer migration to the US 100 years ago in a book. I used to be Director of SE at Waterloo an...
   tomh009 Waterloo Region Economy 639 741,052 04-20-2026, 10:44 AM
  Thread: General Business Updates and News
Post: RE: General Business Updates and News
The 70% figure is from this study, and that is specifically for software engineering grads, not computer engineering or computer science. https://brocku.ca/social-sciences/political-science/wp-conte...
   tomh009 Waterloo Region Economy 639 741,052 04-18-2026, 03:00 PM
  Thread: General Business Updates and News
Post: RE: General Business Updates and News
The short answer is that there is way more investment capital south of the border, chasing relatively fewer potential startups: it's a "buyers' market" for startup investment. A few things to note...
   tomh009 Waterloo Region Economy 639 741,052 04-17-2026, 04:38 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/...
Acitta Wrote: (04-17-2026, 04:16 PM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (04-16-2026, 09:15 PM) -- It's a south Indian grocery, though, there are not many of those. I know there are (south Indian) people from Waterlo...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 911 603,312 04-17-2026, 04:26 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/...
Acitta Wrote: (04-15-2026, 04:55 PM) -- I have shopped in the Kerala shop a couple of times. It is the only Indian grocery downtown, but it is rather small. The Region has a lot of better Indian groc...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 911 603,312 04-16-2026, 09:15 PM
  Thread: Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | 19 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | ?fl | Propos...
panamaniac Wrote: (04-16-2026, 07:54 AM) -- Too bad the whole site wasn't reserved for an urban park.  Missed opportunity, istm.  That said, it's not a bad looking project. -- Need to put the fire ...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 21 3,743 04-16-2026, 09:12 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Momo26 Wrote: (04-04-2026, 07:00 PM) -- I never really grew up with 'winter activities'. Did a little snowboarding in HS. My father would get extreme shivers coming out in evening to my elementary sc...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 5,994 4,985,022 04-05-2026, 12:03 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
neonjoe Wrote: (04-04-2026, 09:17 AM) -- Acitta Wrote: (04-03-2026, 09:33 PM) -- I have known plenty of immigrants over the years who flocked together with birds of different feathers. My own grandp...
   tomh009 Urban Issues 604 362,370 04-04-2026, 05:42 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Momo26 Wrote: (04-04-2026, 04:51 PM) -- Vojnik_Vahaj Wrote: (03-26-2026, 01:14 PM) -- Not much has been going that is applicable, lol. I'm good, how are you? -- I'm okay. I was a bit down over win...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 5,994 4,985,022 04-04-2026, 05:38 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
Vojnik_Vahaj Wrote: (04-02-2026, 01:38 PM) -- The more stay at home mothers, the more employed men(generally, very simplified). -- So, how do you propose to convince women to stay at home and pop m...
   tomh009 Urban Issues 604 362,370 04-02-2026, 10:35 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
Enabling women to have children and still have careers tends to help somewhat, but it's a relatively small impact compared to the overall demographic changes in many advanced countries. Immigration te...
   tomh009 Urban Issues 604 362,370 03-28-2026, 05:56 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
I'm not too worried about the additional stations (is Kitchener-Central the current station, though, with Kitchener-East coming later?), some of those will be skipped by express trains anyway. And the...
   tomh009 Transportation and Infrastructure 2,210 1,538,033 03-27-2026, 08:45 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
danbrotherston Wrote: (03-27-2026, 01:46 PM) -- I strongly disagree that population decline of any kind is a "very bad thing". In fact, given the population on this planet, global population decline ...
   tomh009 Urban Issues 604 362,370 03-27-2026, 08:39 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
westwardloo Wrote: (03-17-2026, 08:18 AM) -- Ok, I guess myself and many others will just drive to Toronto then. Personally I live in the country so bus is not an option, but If I lived in the edge o...
   tomh009 Transportation and Infrastructure 2,210 1,538,033 03-18-2026, 08:13 PM

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