General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[westwardloo]

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 kind of movement upgrades.  The sidewalk along Glasgow is barely there so it couldn't likely support any kind of MUT heading east-west.  Strange St is already mostly a one-way street fronting the property.  When coupled with the alluded to development in the parking lot across Strange St, plus the development at the Victoria & Park corner the general north-south flow of people and vehicles could be pretty heavy.

I think running Wellington to Dominion through the OSC property could alleviate a lot of those concerns. You would have Park and Strange St. to access Victoria/ DTK, Dominion/ Wellington St. to access King/ HWY 7, Glasgow st. to access belmont/ boardwalk, and Park st. to access Uptown. 

People with traffic concerns always assume everyone is going to driving their cars all at the exact same time. 

I love what they did with Catalyst Commons, but it really would have been nice for it to have been incorporated into the redevelopment of the Airboss property. Could have been a true Mixed used development similar to what we see in toronto like liberty village. 

Concepts look great, too bad it is Waterloo region so Alburn or Drewlo will buy the site and develop bland beige and outright ugly buildings on the site that will take 2 decades to complete. I hope Vanmar or Zehr buy the property or fingers crossed for a toronto developer to finally look at Kitchener as a good investment west of mississauga. One can dream....