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  Thread: General University Area Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (04-15-2025, 09:58 AM) -- Yeah for a yard you only need space and a place to put tracks. They could build one at the SunLife parking lot if they really wanted by building a spur that goes...
   nms University Area 414 506,669 04-15-2025, 06:09 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Out of curiosity, what funding options were available to the Region when they first approved the LRT to fund the whole thing from top to bottom? Apart from granting a company a franchise as was done ...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 17,547 11,663,313 04-15-2025, 05:56 PM
  Thread: General University Area Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours
Here is the link to the City of Waterloo bid page (https://waterloo.bidsandtenders.ca/Module/Tenders/en/Tender/Detail/3cbc3b63-2454-4d8c-8e61-9f835844d95f#). If I had to guess, it would include pos...
   nms University Area 414 506,669 04-13-2025, 05:07 PM
  Thread: The Breithaupt Block Phase III | 11 fl | Complete
Post: RE: The Breithaupt Block Phase III | 11 fl | Compl...
Momo26 Wrote: (04-10-2025, 05:13 PM) -- Pros and cons to WFH. Have now seen it both and am not a proponent of 100% WFH. Even when the work is independently completed there is merit and getting to kno...
   nms Urban Areas 659 346,167 04-10-2025, 09:13 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
The one that surprised me was the proposed Highway Express (https://www.grt.ca/en/about-grt/grt-business-plan.aspx#Highway-express). The first is to be an extended 302 running from Conestoga Mall, to ...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 4,482 3,577,331 04-07-2025, 10:07 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
A complete bonkers suggestion, but how difficult would it be to have a rubber tired vehicle to either push or pull the LRVs up the steeper part at Agnes? Then, the tractor could return back to the bo...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 17,547 11,663,313 04-07-2025, 04:41 PM
  Thread: Siemens to have presence in KW
Post: RE: Siemens to have presence in KW
Siemens has (had?) an office on Riverbend Drive through their Siemens Healthineers division (formerly Siemens Healthcare). I'm pretty sure that they may have arrived due to an acquisition, but I can'...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 4 358 04-07-2025, 04:36 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
It's going to take some creative urban planning to make this work as anything as dense as is being proposed. The confluence of Glasgow, Park and Strange Street don't render themselves for any easy kin...
   nms Urban Areas 5,798 4,426,050 03-28-2025, 12:46 AM
  Thread: Victoria Commons
Post: RE: Victoria Commons
Historically speaking, how did cities evolve a good mix of private, public and semi-private space? Simply building "mixed-use" buildings that stack housing, on top of office space, on top of one laye...
   nms Urban Areas 102 133,366 03-24-2025, 09:59 PM
  Thread: 1157, 1175 Weber Street East | 17 + 19 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 1157, 1175 Weber Street East | 17 + 19 fl | Pr...
ac3r Wrote: (03-18-2025, 07:16 PM) -- Black and white is just the zeitgeist of human civilization at the moment. Depressing, cold and inhuman. While it wasn't a great design before, this is certai...
   nms Suburbs 33 9,254 03-18-2025, 08:12 PM
  Thread: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | proposed
Post: RE: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | propos...
Silie Wrote: (03-17-2025, 11:02 AM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (03-15-2025, 04:14 AM) -- Vive so it'll be rental, not $900K condos. I actually think the cemetery will be a nice view, lots of green and tre...
   nms Urban Areas 79 11,124 03-17-2025, 10:31 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
That lot has been for sale for a while now and was formerly used as overflow staff parking for GRH.
   nms Urban Areas 5,798 4,426,050 03-10-2025, 08:03 PM
  Thread: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | proposed
Post: RE: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | propos...
From that link, the building is proposed to be moved back from the intersection and closer to the field behind it: Quote: -- The first requested amendment involves increasing the maximum front...
   nms Urban Areas 79 11,124 03-09-2025, 12:05 AM
  Thread: Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Brantford most vulnerable to tariffs
Post: RE: Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Brantford m...
The last time that Canada had an example of what a closed border looked like was circa 1939 to 1941 (and possibly beyond that to the end of the Second World War) when a lot of cross-border trade was h...
   nms Politics 93 9,881 03-04-2025, 09:44 PM
  Thread: High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London
Post: RE: High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitche...
For those countries that previously did not have operating high speed rail, the concept to first service varies. For example, in the case of France, TGV was first proposed in 1966, approved in 1974, ...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 476 429,256 02-27-2025, 09:14 AM
  Thread: General University Area Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours
The project at ~344 King appears to have stalled. There does not appear to be any activity on the site and the construction isn't more than a few erected steel pieces.
   nms University Area 414 506,669 02-26-2025, 06:31 PM
  Thread: High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London
Post: RE: High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitche...
Aside from the Chinese who are miles ahead of everyone, the next eight countries ranked by operational length are functioning democracies. Number 9, Turkey has a more autocratic government, and number...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 476 429,256 02-24-2025, 08:16 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Taking a quick look at the site using Google Maps, it looks like the absolute limit for extending the two runways would be: - about 2600m for 14-32 since Kossuth Road is to the south and Fountain St ...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 1,416 1,225,090 02-24-2025, 08:02 AM
  Thread: 4611 King St E | 30 & 25 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 4611 King St E | 30 & 25 fl | Proposed
There once was a street with no light, The residents put up a big fight. No to sidewalks too, Or else they'll boo, They're certain that they're right.
   nms Suburbs 35 11,327 02-16-2025, 12:58 PM
  Thread: Hidden Valley
Post: RE: Hidden Valley
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-05-2025, 12:39 PM) -- timc Wrote: (02-05-2025, 12:17 PM) -- Interesting. No mention of the wealthy inhabitants of the area and their resistance to development. -- Yeah, I...
   nms Suburbs 16 2,027 02-06-2025, 07:56 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
ijmorlan Wrote: (01-29-2025, 11:02 AM) -- jeffster Wrote: (01-28-2025, 09:55 PM) -- I miss the old Planetarium in Toronto. Sucks that it closed. Unsure how well it would do in K-Dub if it can't make...
   nms Urban Areas 547 128,247 01-29-2025, 09:02 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
First elected at 25, Mayor at 31. ~~~~ City of Waterloo mourns passing of former Mayor James Bauer (https://www.waterloo.ca/Modules/News/index.aspx?feedId=0d868655-ba17-4efa-988b-1951530c7aec&news...
   nms Politics 546 218,762 01-28-2025, 02:32 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
panamaniac Wrote: (01-27-2025, 09:58 PM) -- Planetariums (Planetaria?) are a bit old fashioned, no? -- Given the loss of the night sky due to light pollution, a planetarium could be more useful now...
   nms Urban Areas 547 128,247 01-28-2025, 02:26 PM
  Thread: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | Completed
Post: RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C
Likely a b panamaniac Wrote: (01-26-2025, 06:38 PM) -- What's with the huge electrical box out front? -- Likely a backup generator?
   nms Suburbs 51 31,765 01-26-2025, 06:51 PM
  Thread: 924-944 King St W | 28 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 924 to 944 King St W | 28 fl | Proposed
bravado Wrote: (01-21-2025, 08:59 PM) -- ^ this super well-made and knowledgeable post is a summary of why the housing crisis is what it is around here. If we want housing, we sure don't write the la...
   nms Urban Areas 11 1,495 01-22-2025, 08:42 PM
  Thread: The Metz (Schneiders site redevelopment)
Post: RE: The Metz (Schneiders site redevelopment)
If I recall correctly, the City of Waterloo originally purchased much of the former industrial property in downtown Waterloo before later selling some of it off to developers. This is why there there...
   nms Urban Areas 664 384,354 01-20-2025, 08:33 AM

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