07-03-2025, 10:15 AM
Briefly mentioned in this article was the potential for Market square to be the site of the new Aud. This would be a perfect location downtown, lots of parking garages near by and right beside an LRT stop.
I know there are people on this forum that love market square for some reason, and want to see it be reused for other purposes. I understand the environmental reason to try and reuse as many buildings as possible, but this building has been used for a mall, office space, educational all of them have failed. It's time to accept this building was poorly designed for most uses. We will not get a DT arena without demolishing buildings, this is the perfect site. The City needs to work closely with Europro to try and secure this site for future sports and entertainment facility. this site is big enough for an arena with parking and a small public square. they could even keep the ugly glass clock tower as part of the public square.
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...e4ab9.html
I know there are people on this forum that love market square for some reason, and want to see it be reused for other purposes. I understand the environmental reason to try and reuse as many buildings as possible, but this building has been used for a mall, office space, educational all of them have failed. It's time to accept this building was poorly designed for most uses. We will not get a DT arena without demolishing buildings, this is the perfect site. The City needs to work closely with Europro to try and secure this site for future sports and entertainment facility. this site is big enough for an arena with parking and a small public square. they could even keep the ugly glass clock tower as part of the public square.
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...e4ab9.html