Market Square

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The CBC article on the topic suggests that Conestoga College will retain a downtown Kitchener footprint at 1 Young St (ex Mayfair location) and continue with the 22 Frederick renovations.  I wonder if they are holding out for a better deal on Market Square due to the higher vacancy rates.

I would have loved for them to buy the whole market square building from Europro. Tear it down and built a proper Downtown campus with a nice green space. Unfortunately times are going to be tough for Conestoga college for the next couple years. can see them doing any major investments in campuses for the time being.  

The 22 Frederick renovations are turning out to be a bit of a disappointment. Looks like they are using cheap materials and not actually changing the look of the exterior. I was hoping they would reclad the building similar to the second floor event space attached to the building or similar style to the market square campus entrance off duke/ Frederick. 

It's odd, because I think the college did a decent job renovating the waterloo campus, but the DTK campus seems to be use as little money as possible so the board can get fat pay cheques.