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  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed

Kodra24 Wrote: (01-22-2026, 12:59 AM) -- bravado Wrote: (01-21-2026, 11:55 PM) -- It’s wild to me that people walk among us who think that homelessness and drugs are only widespread because they jus...
  bravado Urban Areas 5,973 4,720,706 01-22-2026, 05:27 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed

prisecaru0 Wrote: (01-21-2026, 11:16 AM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (01-19-2026, 09:54 AM) -- (Moving this conversation to a more appropriate thread.) Do you have a realistic solution for either homelessn...
  bravado Urban Areas 5,973 4,720,706 01-21-2026, 11:55 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

KingandWeber Wrote: (01-20-2026, 12:25 AM) -- nms Wrote: (01-19-2026, 06:08 PM) -- This project now has a name: Amber & Oak (https://www.amberandoak.ca/). 45 Rental suites at 70 Short St, Waterloo. ...
  bravado Urban Areas 1,346 1,218,276 01-20-2026, 12:35 AM
  Thread: Water capacity
Post: RE: Water capacity

I have to assume that the legal framework doesn’t exist (and won’t, due to Ford being in charge) to give incentives to water-saving infill and “punish” water-wasting sprawl? It doesn’t sound like anyo...
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 16 1,151 01-09-2026, 03:34 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

I'm looking forward to the next winter holiday sidewalk plowing service brought to you by Domino's or something
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 3,836,225 01-04-2026, 03:29 PM
  Thread: World politics
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

1. Of all the major pillars of growing corruption in the world, the fact that you chose to mention Zelensky is revealing to your own personality. It's shameful to inject it into an unrelated discussio...
  bravado Politics 12 741 12-29-2025, 11:46 AM
  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: (12-25-2025, 12:33 PM) -- This will be finished in 3759. -- Can we give pre-heritage designations?
  bravado Urban Areas 895 562,970 12-25-2025, 12:44 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

I think that if we want nice, reliable public services, they have to be financially sustainable. You should have to pay ~something~ to use a nice and reliable service, or else it won't be that way for...
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 3,836,225 12-22-2025, 10:45 AM
  Thread: General Waterloo Region Heritage
Post: RE: General Waterloo Region Heritage

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/heritage-vote-long-term-care-beds-cambridge/article_0c93e151-9351-5422-982b-ef87bac3c0d4.html https://archive.ph/00bvS I have a major beef with heritag...
  bravado Waterloo Region Heritage 43 51,722 12-21-2025, 12:11 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

I wouldn’t waste too many brain cells thinking about it - we are at the point where Ford has taken so much responsibility from cities that councillors are basically angry Uncles on Facebook and that’s...
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 17,649 12,513,121 12-16-2025, 02:07 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Momo26 Wrote: (12-16-2025, 08:38 AM) -- Lol beat me to it. I guess there is some argument ro be made on both sides ;/ Cambridge ciunsel should tread lightly. They may end up with a motion to parti...
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 17,649 12,513,121 12-16-2025, 08:49 AM
  Thread: Water capacity
Post: RE: Water capacity

This is also pretty deep in the weeds, but is there any jurisdiction that uses water efficiency as a metric for ranking projects? I'd love a future where the zoning system and building codes actual...
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 16 1,151 12-10-2025, 10:32 PM
  Thread: Water capacity
Post: RE: Water capacity

When will we see water recovery be built into our codes in this province? In Cambridge, the local news headlines are all about commercial property owners with gigantic amounts of paved area complainin...
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 16 1,151 12-10-2025, 05:18 PM
  Thread: Mall Retail (Cambridge Centre, Conestoga, Fairview)
Post: RE: Mall Retail (Cambridge Centre, Conestoga, Fair...

Momo26 Wrote: (12-09-2025, 12:12 AM) -- Cannot read. I think i know but want to confirm  what are we getting? https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/husdsons-bay-sign-fairview-mall/ar...
  bravado Retail 202 267,192 12-09-2025, 12:22 AM
  Thread: 102 Fountain Street South (former Preston Springs Hotel) | 26, 24 & 22 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 102 Fountain Street South (former Preston Spri...

https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/tribunal-overturns-city-council-greenlights-preston-springs-high-rises-11577444 Overturned by the OLT just in time for the condo market to implode! Quot...
  bravado Urban Areas 65 15,875 12-04-2025, 04:33 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub

neonjoe Wrote: (11-30-2025, 09:35 AM) -- ^ Society fails when we lose empathy… -- Didn't you hear? Empathy is weakness now! Other generations had empathy for us - we seem to not want to keep paying...
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 1,248 1,249,676 11-30-2025, 03:22 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

This is all quite a big distraction. It’s not an unreasonable request that our levels of government talk to each other and plan together. Especially when projects like this don’t exactly happen qui...
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 2,176 1,438,482 11-28-2025, 02:00 PM
  Thread: High-speed rail coming to Canada!..in 4 years...maybe
Post: RE: High-speed rail coming to Canada!..in 4 years....

Rainrider22 Wrote: (11-24-2025, 11:40 PM) -- You can't be serious about giving up fossil fuels... do you actually.understand how much stuff other than ice engines rely on oil ? -- Why does this cog...
  bravado General and Off-Topic Discussion 24 2,204 11-25-2025, 09:00 PM
  Thread: Kitchener Toys R Us - Up for sale
Post: RE: Kitchener Toys R Us - Up for sale

We should start the timers now for how long this property next to gigantic public transit infrastructure stays empty before someone thinks about changing the zoning for better uses... Sad to see a ...
  bravado Retail 7 712 11-25-2025, 08:59 PM
  Thread: 255 King St W, Cambridge | 18 + 17 + 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 255 King St W, Cambridge | 18 + 17 + 15 fl | P...

Construction continues in the cold: https://i.imgur.com/ADcP7Ja.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/AJ2mUug.jpeg
  bravado Urban Areas 30 8,614 11-24-2025, 09:27 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

I just hope that GO Transit has the internal feedback loop of (busy route -> add more capacity). Some days it doesn't seem like they do. Here's hoping.
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 2,176 1,438,482 11-24-2025, 09:23 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

ac3r Wrote: (11-21-2025, 10:19 PM) -- It still sucks, tho. -- https://i.imgur.com/7RntoaQ.png
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 1,234 899,369 11-22-2025, 10:15 AM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability

I wonder what North Americans would think of Dutch housing. I think if that was offered here for the same prices as today, people would not be happy. “How come my parents got a 5br suburban house a...
  bravado Urban Issues 243 62,161 11-14-2025, 02:10 PM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability

creative Wrote: (11-14-2025, 09:20 AM) -- It used to work really well in the past. Home ownership was affordable to many and renting as an alternative to ownership was also affordable. House prices a...
  bravado Urban Issues 243 62,161 11-14-2025, 11:00 AM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability

Then that government would be doing something pretty unpopular with the average Canadian home-owning voter...
  bravado Urban Issues 243 62,161 11-11-2025, 10:44 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

Yeah there are so many better communicators our there than me, thankfully @ZEBuilder is one of them. I was actually referring to a literal photo of a slide from a slideshow that the City of Kitchener...
  bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 1,234 899,369 11-07-2025, 10:44 PM

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