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  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
This is not a NIMBY neighbourhood. A connection underneath the tracks, as Schnieders once had, seems a no-brainer.
   panamaniac Urban Areas 5,826 4,469,824 06-07-2025, 10:05 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
After sitting unused for 70+ years. Personally, I always thought it would be a good location for a park.
   panamaniac Urban Areas 5,826 4,469,824 06-06-2025, 05:45 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
It's circulating in unofficial circles. On SSP, it is suggested that it is the Flair "base" that is closing but that Flair flights will continue.
   panamaniac Transportation and Infrastructure 1,438 1,242,073 05-29-2025, 01:02 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Flair shutting down at YKF?
   panamaniac Transportation and Infrastructure 1,438 1,242,073 05-28-2025, 10:26 PM
  Thread: Weber Yards (1333 Weber St E) | 15, 15, 12 & 12 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Weber Yards (1333 Weber St E) | 15, 15, 12 & 1...
creative Wrote: (05-27-2025, 09:15 AM) -- https://weberyards.com/ Saw an add on Instagram this morning. Starting in the low $400s. -- Wonder what the sqft cost looks like?   Pre-construction ond...
   panamaniac Urban Areas 249 113,275 05-27-2025, 11:47 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Momo26 Wrote: (05-10-2025, 09:09 PM) -- I know someone who bought a precon in Montreal.  I think they begrudgingly closed on it last year, valued 150k less than original price and cannot even find a ...
   panamaniac Urban Areas 5,826 4,469,824 05-10-2025, 09:27 PM
  Thread: The Aud
Post: RE: The Aud
tomh009 Wrote: (05-10-2025, 02:16 PM) -- The $2.5M in renovations would be paid by the Rangers, who do not control the future of the building. But, even if the city were to decide to rebuild or reloc...
   panamaniac Sports and Recreation 175 155,520 05-10-2025, 04:41 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
tomh009 Wrote: (05-10-2025, 02:19 PM) -- creative Wrote: (05-10-2025, 10:10 AM) -- There are new build condos in Toronto where a large number of buyers are unable to get mortgages and are walking aw...
   panamaniac Urban Areas 5,826 4,469,824 05-10-2025, 04:23 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
How!!?? Don't the train and the traffic have separate signals at that intersection?
   panamaniac Transportation and Infrastructure 17,559 11,802,251 04-30-2025, 06:49 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
tomh009 Wrote: (04-30-2025, 04:18 PM) -- westwardloo Wrote: (04-30-2025, 10:42 AM) -- I understand that factory facades have been incorporated into designs of buildings, but right now there is littl...
   panamaniac Transportation and Infrastructure 1,233 1,181,498 04-30-2025, 05:24 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
You overlook how fundamental its manufacturing history is to Kitchener's identity.
   panamaniac Transportation and Infrastructure 1,233 1,181,498 04-30-2025, 11:57 AM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
The original plant, once renovated/restored, should be quite nice.
   panamaniac Transportation and Infrastructure 1,233 1,181,498 04-29-2025, 06:31 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
Kodra24 Wrote: (04-29-2025, 10:40 AM) -- Although I’m disappointed with the outcome of the general election I’m glad to see Kitchener Centre turn blue along with the neighbouring ridings, gotta celeb...
   panamaniac Politics 597 230,144 04-29-2025, 12:15 PM
  Thread: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
I think the point the poster was making is that DTK lacks the bourgeois blandness of UTW. Many people like that kind of atmosphere.
   panamaniac Urban Areas 1,425 699,554 04-27-2025, 10:21 AM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
bravado Wrote: (04-23-2025, 10:40 PM) -- From the Record: https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/municipalities-rack-up-large-bills-fighting-developments-at-the-ontario-land-tribunal/artic...
   panamaniac Urban Issues 194 46,188 04-24-2025, 07:35 AM
  Thread: Market Square
Post: RE: Market Square
nms Wrote: (04-18-2025, 12:46 PM) -- prisecaru0 Wrote: (04-18-2025, 11:15 AM) -- Does Market Square have any tenants other then Conestoga? There was that one food court tenant and service canada was...
   panamaniac Urban Areas 222 112,857 04-18-2025, 09:00 PM
  Thread: Market Square
Post: RE: Market Square
mastermind Wrote: (04-17-2025, 10:36 PM) -- Isn't a Conestoga College downsize a little inevitable with the change in rules around the number of international students allowed? -- Totally inevitabl...
   panamaniac Urban Areas 222 112,857 04-18-2025, 08:21 AM
  Thread: Market Square
Post: RE: Market Square
ZEBuilder Wrote: (04-17-2025, 08:53 PM) -- KevinL Wrote: (04-17-2025, 08:46 PM) -- They were intending the 22 Frederick rebuild to be student housing, yeah? I imagine they can change course on that,...
   panamaniac Urban Areas 222 112,857 04-17-2025, 09:17 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
tomh009 Wrote: (04-14-2025, 02:58 PM) -- Thanks, much easier to envision the original part of the building now! I do wonder what was on the right side (not original but one of the additions) that ...
   panamaniac Urban Areas 5,826 4,469,824 04-14-2025, 06:32 PM
  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
Kodra24 Wrote: (03-31-2025, 03:02 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (03-31-2025, 02:45 PM) -- Condo fees is not a benefit. Condo fees pay for maintenance of the property, you still have to pay for the ma...
   panamaniac Outside Waterloo Region 39 7,035 04-01-2025, 01:03 PM
  Thread: Apollo Cinema
Post: RE: Apollo Cinema
Momo26 Wrote: (03-31-2025, 06:00 PM) -- Apollo has a lot of potential indeed. Such a big space. IMO they need to pound the Indie movie market segment/Oscar nominated/foreign film scene harder like Pr...
   panamaniac Arts and Culture 23 20,133 03-31-2025, 06:08 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
mastermind Wrote: (03-28-2025, 09:09 AM) -- Haha westwardloo and panamaniac you two saying "One can dream" and "One wonders..." and "One hopes..."  I'm picturing you like friends on a back porch at s...
   panamaniac Urban Areas 5,826 4,469,824 03-29-2025, 11:06 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
One wonders what is happening with AirBoss?
   panamaniac Urban Areas 5,826 4,469,824 03-28-2025, 08:30 AM
  Thread: Victoria Commons
Post: RE: Victoria Commons
ac3r Wrote: (03-26-2025, 07:38 PM) -- "There is a vivid contrast between the order of China and the chaos of the West." https://i.imgur.com/I7YMFX7.gif -- Who are you quoting and what is the rel...
   panamaniac Urban Areas 102 134,382 03-26-2025, 09:20 PM
  Thread: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
Post: RE: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
I'm not quite getting the alternating white/black spandrel on one podium facade vs all white spandrel on another.
   panamaniac Urban Areas 780 223,244 03-23-2025, 01:29 PM
  Thread: Victoria Commons
Post: RE: Victoria Commons
Although there are a number of nearby spots that could be redeveloped for commercial purposes. Requiring mixed use when the commercial space is going to be too expensive to attract businesses, does n...
   panamaniac Urban Areas 102 134,382 03-21-2025, 11:09 AM

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